Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Two good portraits, though I feel that the one of Marek is a wee bit better. Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 12:44 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > Yesterday was my last day in Copenhagen, with my flight leaving at 4:30 > pm. After my sister and I checked out of our hotel in the morning, we went > to the place of our friends Marek and Tamara. Two remarkable people, who > came to Denmark around the time as my parents and me (early 1970s). They > are now in their late 60s. As far as I can remember, they have spent > countless hours on volunteer work among the Polish Jews in Denmark, most of > whom are now in their 80s and 90s, with their numbers rapidly dwindling. On > a personal level, they were of enormous help to my parents when they moved > to Copenhagen from Aarhus in the late 1980s, and especially to my father > during the 3 years he lived alone as a widower. In short, two wonderful > people. > > While we chatted before going to lunch at a nearby restaurant, I took a > few portraits of them with the 90mm Tele-Elmarit mounted on my Fuji XE2. It > was quite fitting to use a lens that manufactured around the time we > started our new life in Denmark about 45 years ago. > > Marek, in a serious moment: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-LZKqSqC/A > > Tamara, smiling: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-MJ5fQFK/A > > Cheers, > Nathan > > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >