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At the end of World War II, many towns in northern Poland lay in ruins. New housing was hastily built in the former medieval town centres to accommodate the many refugees from the East who settled there. Sometimes a single historic building survives amid the faceless new settlements.
The posts in this blog can be quite inspiring. After I saw pictures here of the magnificient cathedral built in the 11th century in Königslutter I made a stop in this pleasant little town on a tour to the east. Here some shots not of the cathedral but of reflections in the windows of the half-timbered houses.
The polish railways owns the world’s last engine shed where steam engines are maintained to operate regular scheduled daily trains.
In 1934 the German director Willy Zielke shot a movie for the 100th anniversary (1935) of the first German railway. While at the time the movie was rejected by the Reichsbahn railway company, his avantgarde shooting was groundbreaking and was copied by other directors such as Leni Riefenstahl.
I have tried to take some shots copying his way of photography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKdzyQpeSqk
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Zielke
The castle of Malbork was the headquarters of the Teutonic knights and later one of the residences of the polish king. It was badly damaged in WW II and restoration took a long time. The church was only restored by 2016. Thousands of artefacts exhibited in the museum on the castle grounds were lost or stolen during the war. Even after the losses it is one of the world’s most impressive castles to visit. Here are some pictures of the ceilings.
During various visits to the United States, I was always fascinated by the huge, free-standing billboards. Here a selection at night
I just spend a week sailing on the Masurian lakes in Poland. The shores of the lakes are lined with weeds and fields of water lily. Time for the use of the water proof camera
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The Slovenian capital of Ljubljana also has a beautiful railway museum. There are lots of perfectly restored engines in a roundhouse. However, what I find more attractive for photos are the abandoned, derelict engines outside. And they might disappear
https://hrs-ontherailsagain.blogspot.com/2024/06/on-my-way-back-from-anatolia-6.html
In the beginning of my career as amateur photographic I bought all kind of equipment. One was a bellows device for macro photography. I still have it but did not use it for many years. However, upon scanning old slides I came upon this macro shot of a flower taken in 1979
For the 20th century Ara Güler was Istanbul’s most important photographer. His nickname was “the eye of Istanbul”. However, when he died in 2018, 90 years old, most of the town he had documented in his early years, had vanished in a wave of profit, development and tourism. Güler took the majority of his photos’s in Black and White. I tried to find some spots of the old Istanbul and create similar pictures.
https://hrs-ontherailsagain.blogspot.com/2024/06/on-my-way-to-anatolia-18.html
https://www.araguler.com.tr/tr/istanbulphotos2.html
Frequently I see beautiful pictures of Yosemite here. The valley behind the Swiss village of Lauterbrunnen is sometimes called Swiss Yosemite. Like there several cascades come down the high cliffs. And not unlike Yosemite the place is very well known by visitors from all over the world.
