Forum: Photos
01-20-2020, 09:02 PM
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To CMJC: photography in museums
Hello Christine,
you are right, we cannot achieve proper reproductions of a painting or other artwork, and that is not what I want. I want to catch the atmosphere, the people who visit the museum...
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Forum: Photos
01-20-2020, 05:32 PM
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Views: 174
To jemaflor: Thanks!
Hello Jean,
you are perfectly right: I could have cropped the lady at the left side, she is blurred and distracts the onlooker.
Regards,
Elvira
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Forum: Photos
04-03-2019, 05:43 PM
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Views: 179
To macjake: Elephants
Hello Craig,
thanks for writing!
Like you I hope the elephants are treated with respect, but who can say? The 2 elephants are the base of their income, and I hope I contributed with the "photo fee"...
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Forum: Photos
03-26-2019, 09:05 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 89
To lousat: Dance show
Hello Luciano,
I agree, these performances on a stage in an ugly hall are not the same interesting thing as these very dancers performing at the religious Perahera festival, as for instance...
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Forum: Photos
03-23-2019, 07:49 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 80
To tyro: Back home with lots of pictures
Hello john,
thanks for your kind remarks. Sri Lanka was the first country I ever visited in Asia, an the trip turned out to be full of new experiences and surprises. A bad surprise was that I'm not...
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Forum: Photos
03-23-2019, 07:17 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 79
To tyro: Medu Vada
Hello John,
thanks for your help, yes, that may be "Medu Vada", without the onions and chopped coriander leafs. I liked them!
Thanks for writing,
Elvira
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Forum: Photos
03-21-2019, 05:28 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 102
To macjake: walking stick
Hello Craig,
you are right, it is not a walking stick. The fishermen put it through the handles of the basket. instead of explaining it further, I`ll show it in a ws!
Kind regards,
Elvira
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Forum: Photos
03-19-2019, 12:53 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 58
To emka: fishing in baskets
Hello Malgo,
no, no fishing with baskets, only cleaning! They took out the fish of the nets on the beach and gathered them in baskets, and before bringing them to the market they rinse them in the...
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Forum: Photos
03-18-2019, 09:22 AM
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Replies: 0
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To macjake: drowned villages
Hello Craig,
really, did you never ever hear of such villages? There exist more than one, in nearly every artificial lake (lakes that are built to be used as water reservoirs) disappears the one or...
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Forum: Photos
03-17-2019, 03:03 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 85
To BennyV: Sri Lankan people
Hello Benny,
this was already the second photo I took of him, but may be he looks surprised, because his attention before was absorbed by a customer. In general I found all people in Sri Lanka very...
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Forum: Photos
03-17-2019, 02:53 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 104
To snunney: Sri Lanka
Hello Stephen,
oh, then I'll wait patiently for your photos to come! I don't know wether you will see so many kids in school uniforms, because I don't know nothing about school holidays in Sri...
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Forum: Photos
02-23-2019, 08:41 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 129
To tyro: Madagascar and Italy
Hello John,
thanks for your kind words! You are right, this is what I like about TE just as you do - the "school days". You compare these pyramids with some phenomenon on Madagascar, Mesut Ilgim...
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Forum: Photos
02-19-2019, 07:09 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 87
To GyurMaster: Dance in Germany
Hello György,
this show happend to be in Italy! So, no need to return only to see what young girls do with tradition. If you type in "Schuhplattler", you sure will see lots of videos on youtube. The...
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Forum: Photos
02-16-2019, 11:38 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 86
To lousat: difficult walk
Hello Luciano,
thank you for looking and commenting!
I agree, vacations have to be easy-going! And I was very wrong about the difficulties of hiking in South Tyrol. To reach this hut could not be...
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Forum: Photos
02-13-2019, 08:05 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 119
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Forum: Photos
02-13-2019, 08:03 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 119
To tyro: ....nit imported...
Hello John,
no, the sky is not imported, sometimes I get such marvellous light by good luck for free! :cool::D
Have a nice day,
Elvira
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Forum: Photos
02-13-2019, 07:59 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 139
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Forum: Photos
02-12-2019, 08:17 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 132
To macjake: coloful houses
Hello Craig,
thanks for writing!
You are completly right, the houses didn't look so colorful when they were built, modern paint is needed and not only chalk and adobe. In ancient times the wooden...
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Forum: Photos
02-02-2019, 06:13 PM
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Replies: 0
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To lousat: Potsdam
Hello Luciano,
thank you for writing!I myself just came to Potsdam by chance, I didn't know much about it (shame on me!). It was only a short stay and so I decided to go there once again this year...
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Forum: Photos
01-29-2019, 11:34 AM
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Replies: 0
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To gervaso: humming birds
Wow, you could take a lot of photos? And I call me lucky to have caught this only pic........:confused:
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Forum: Photos
01-28-2019, 09:08 AM
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Replies: 0
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To GyurMaster: Oldies
Hello György,
Thanks for writing!
Yes, I know by now that you are a great fan of photos taken on real film, not consisting of bits and bytes. But I can't share your enthusiasm!
The photo of...
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Forum: Photos
01-26-2019, 05:25 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 81
To holmertz: no fine
Hello Gert,
She could not bother me, ha ha, I was pedestrian. I knew "lovely Rita", but had no idea who she was. My English then was hardly good enough to understand "Yeah, yeah yeah".:D
Kind...
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Forum: Photos
01-24-2019, 07:22 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 103
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Forum: Photos
01-24-2019, 07:20 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 103
To mesutilgim: die Farbe Blau
Hallo Mesut,
das finde ich ja hochinteressant, dass es auch wissenschaftlich bestätigt ist, dass Blau die richtige Farbe für Ausstellungen ist. Ich war früher überzeugt, dass Gemälde nur auf weißen...
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Forum: Photos
01-17-2019, 12:08 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 113
To Royaldevon: Reszel
Hello Bev,
thanks for writing!
I do not know very much about this castle, as I mentioned in my previous posts we were on a bicycle tour, and I remember we had rarely enough time to stop and explore...
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