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Post by Jaga on Oct 25, 2006 22:29:58 GMT -7
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Post by Jaga on Oct 26, 2006 8:45:19 GMT -7
Nancy just wrote me that Scatts have a wonderful collection of the photographs of Powazki: www.pbase.com/scatts/warsawgravesI did not see it before, it is really amazing! |
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Post by leslie on Oct 26, 2006 9:25:01 GMT -7
Scatts
As we have come to expect, an excellent set of photos - macabre but superb.
How about a book of a different collection of photos of Poland? Have you had any contact yet with Monika?
Leslie
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Post by zooba on Oct 26, 2006 10:13:27 GMT -7
Leslie, why macabre? The cementaries are so peaceful now, so beautiful, absolutely unique.
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Post by bescheid on Oct 26, 2006 10:44:43 GMT -7
Nancy just wrote me that Scatts have a wonderful collection of the photographs of Powazki: www.pbase.com/scatts/warsawgravesI did not see it before, it is really amazing! Those are beautiful photos, and the cemeteries so well kept. It is a very lovely manner of remembrance. It was good of scatts to provide these. Charles |
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Post by leslie on Oct 26, 2006 13:23:38 GMT -7
Zooba
This is just one of my many 'foibles'(?). I imagine that I am considerably older than you and certain locations tend to act as unwanted reminders of a future of limited time - although I have made a vow to myself to receive the telegram from the Queen (or whoever is on the throne at the time) - this occurs on one's 100th birthday!!! My 'friends' say "You should be so lucky"!!!
Leslie
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Post by rdywenur on Oct 26, 2006 14:18:11 GMT -7
Well Leslie we all wished you sto lat and our word is gold.
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Post by Jaga on Oct 26, 2006 20:41:08 GMT -7
Scatts (Ion) agreed to share photos with us. When I will add it to the site I would let you know! They are truly amazing!
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Post by scatts on Nov 5, 2006 13:46:35 GMT -7
Gosh, it really is very remiss of me to miss so many posts in here...sorry, where have I been the last week or two??
Anyway. Leslie, I've been trying to contact Monika but she's either been very busy or away. I'm told she's back tomorrow so I'll try again. The idea I want to put to her, or whoever she suggests (or I find) is of a book on Warszawa that is not a guide book but not one of those tacky books full of photos either. As far as I can see there is little choice available other than one or the other. The book I have in my mind is not too big (like those horrid photo books usually are), is good quality and "attractively packaged", stylish. It would contain a combination of photos and text. The text though is not aimed at being a guide but more of an entertainment, humorous but with a serious edge. The nearest I can get to explain is a book version of Michael Palin's travel shows on TV. A personal take on Warszawa. If needs be I could provide the text and photos but I'm happy to let the photos go if the feeling is that mine are not good enough. I'd prefer to do both and that might work out very cheap to produce. I want it to be such that any tourist (with taste) would buy two books, a guide book and mine. No need for anything else.
And then I'd like to do Rome and Paris and...........
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Post by nancy on Nov 5, 2006 21:22:38 GMT -7
scatts,
Your photos are wonderful and I would certainly purchase a copy of any book including them.
but I wonder what you mean by "one of those tacky books full of photos" ... some are better than others, but I love them all, glossy or not. lol - please clarify .. I would not want to fall victim to a tacky book!@!
to Leslie: photos of cemeteries are not macabre. Many of us -not ready to go! - like to roam cemeteries. Wanna see my pictures?
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Post by scatts on Nov 6, 2006 0:41:54 GMT -7
I wanna see your pictures! I'll try to explain my tacky comment, hopefully without putting my foot in it  Firstly, the quality of the printing on most of them is very poor. Secondly they display little imagination in either photo or text, they tend to stick to the expected shots and boring text. So, they probably work in that they do provide a memento of sorts but the vast majority I pick up leave me wondering why anyone bothered making them. Certainly, I think I can do better, combined with a good printer. |
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Post by bujno on Nov 6, 2006 2:15:50 GMT -7
I wanna see your pictures! I'll try to explain my tacky comment, hopefully without putting my foot in it Firstly, the quality of the printing on most of them is very poor. Secondly they display little imagination in either photo or text, they tend to stick to the expected shots and boring text. So, they probably work in that they do provide a memento of sorts but the vast majority I pick up leave me wondering why anyone bothered making them. Certainly, I think I can do better, combined with a good printer. Scatts, please don't tell that to your to-be-editor. He might feel offended in case he published some of this kind of stuff already. |
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Post by leslie on Nov 6, 2006 2:38:38 GMT -7
Sorry Nancy
I still have to say I don't share your macabre interest in cemeteries - perhaps I am so much nearer what they mean than you are!! However, I do not intend to let my Earthly body rot in one of those. My instructions to my executor (my eldest son) is that when I pop my clogs I want to be cremated. My preference - although the odds against this are about a trillion to 1 - are to be scattered on the Moon or Mars from a manned or unmanned landing by NASA!!
I would still like to see your photos as I am also a masochist!
Leslie
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Post by scatts on Nov 6, 2006 10:23:55 GMT -7
Good point bujno! I shall have to try and be tactful.
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Post by hollister on Nov 7, 2006 11:39:38 GMT -7
*sigh*
begin small voice / I like the phot books by Adam Bujak /end small voice
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