Anders N
For Gunnar
Yesterday I got to know that Gunnar ("Saul Panzer") passed away a couple of weeks ago.
Gunnar was one of my first contacts on Flickr - and I dare to say we became friends. We were of the same age, grew up quite close on different sides of the narrow Öresund strait, Gunnar on the danish side, I on the swedish. We soon found out we had much in common, lots of mutual references and experiences. There were some rock concerts in Copenhagen and Lund in the end of the 60s and beginning of the 70s we both must have attended to simultaneously, of course without knowing each other then. When I posted a pic showing myself from the happy hippie years, Gunnar commented: "It is great to know, when someone has been the same places as one self (and I am not talking about geography)".
Actually it was on Gunnar's stream Barbara and I came to know each other. Gunnar was very happy for this. Last summer we visited Copenhagen and afterwards posted some pics from there. Gunnar reproached us for not having made a visit to him. We said, next year we will surely go to Denmark again, and then we'll meet. Gunnar sent us his address and phone number, and we looked forward for this.
But during autumn his presence at Flickr became more sparse. "Safely back from reality but just for the time being", he once wrote, but we didn't understand. He continued to make occasional postings of his beloved daughter Louise and other members of his family, but refrained from commenting, only made himself known by silent faves now and then.
Now he is gone. He was a good man. I miss him.
For Gunnar
Yesterday I got to know that Gunnar ("Saul Panzer") passed away a couple of weeks ago.
Gunnar was one of my first contacts on Flickr - and I dare to say we became friends. We were of the same age, grew up quite close on different sides of the narrow Öresund strait, Gunnar on the danish side, I on the swedish. We soon found out we had much in common, lots of mutual references and experiences. There were some rock concerts in Copenhagen and Lund in the end of the 60s and beginning of the 70s we both must have attended to simultaneously, of course without knowing each other then. When I posted a pic showing myself from the happy hippie years, Gunnar commented: "It is great to know, when someone has been the same places as one self (and I am not talking about geography)".
Actually it was on Gunnar's stream Barbara and I came to know each other. Gunnar was very happy for this. Last summer we visited Copenhagen and afterwards posted some pics from there. Gunnar reproached us for not having made a visit to him. We said, next year we will surely go to Denmark again, and then we'll meet. Gunnar sent us his address and phone number, and we looked forward for this.
But during autumn his presence at Flickr became more sparse. "Safely back from reality but just for the time being", he once wrote, but we didn't understand. He continued to make occasional postings of his beloved daughter Louise and other members of his family, but refrained from commenting, only made himself known by silent faves now and then.
Now he is gone. He was a good man. I miss him.