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A NSU Prinz II at the PS.Speicher in Einbeck.
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Day II - 12:06 pm
I was expeting trolls, elfs or whatever nothern beasts to appear on that place...
I was trying to hear their dances, theirs flights, their whispers...
I was in such an amazing parallel wolrd !!!
I'm back from 2 weeks travelling around Morocco with hundreds of photos to process, a mountain of laundry and the obligatory stomach bug.
Anyway - this is the Hassan II mosque in Casablanca, Morocco's tallest building and the second largest mosque in the world.
It cost US$750m, raised by forced taxes on the locals which I thought was quite obscene given the awful poverty in the country - a perfect example being the shanty town just across the road from the mosque.
The beach from where this was taken isnt the nicest - I was being heckled by some drunks as I took this, and some locals were using the beach as an open sewer. Actually, Casablanca itself is an awful place - I couldn't wait to get out of it as I didn't feel safe there - it smells of wee, and there is rubbish everywhere.
Last variation of the Petri 7. By 1971 this camera was really outdated and very short of features. It wasn't a contender for the the Canonets and Electro 35 with its sellenium meter and no automation. Still, the viewfinder is large and bright, with the match needle exposure system visible and it is quick to set exposure with this Petri.
Contrary to what I have read, this model still has the "green 'o matic" window over the rangefinder.
My second time out with my Olympus e-m1 mark ii with the Panasonic 100-400m lens
This photo was taken at Bushy Park on the 27th December 2016
Vitomatic II 35mm coupled rangefinder camera with built-in meter, Prontor SLK shutter B,1 to 300 speed and Color-Skopar f2.8/50mm lens, Made in Germany by Voigtlander c1958
Trio II is a restored 1900's Dutch barge, 22 metres overall length, and powered by a 20bhp engine.
Seen here on the Lea Navigation Canal, near Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
When I framed this I immediately thought of my other photo III. So here you have II.
Canon AE-1 Program.
Ilford HP5 Pushed one stop.
Rodinal 1+50.
Epson V600.
Everybody knows that I have a soft spot for Voigtlander cameras. Although I don't like much folding cameras, I go weak when I see the prints that big negatives make with great lenses, like is the case here. The camera is svelt, superbly built and finished. Sadly, the mythical Bessa II is not as well designed, with very poor lens alignement none of that here. The camera is simple, it lacks a rangefinder (that would put it too close to the Bessa II), although one version of the Perkeo had it, but uncoupled. The major innovation here is a frame counter. No longer one had to look at the little red window and the paper back of the film to control exposure counting. A nice touch that few foldings have. Of course, the main attraction here is the Skopar lens 3,5/80 that produces beautiful pictures. I really don't know why, but this Tessar clone always seemed to me to produce better pictures than the original Zeiss. The Perkeo II is Rolleiflex quality at a fraction of the price, although they are very different to use.
Statue of Ramesses II, one of several such figures that acted as pillars in the forecourt of the temple of Gerf Hussein in Nubia, which consisted of a rock-cut sanctuary approached by the aforementioned pillared forecourt. Sadly the rock-cut section of the temple was abandoned to the rising waters of Lake Nasser in the 1960s and remains submerged today, but the forecourt was rescued and only recently reassembled, the best of the figures here with the remainder of the structure rebuilt at New Kalabsha nearby.
Aswan's Nubian museum opened in 1997 and houses an extensive collection of sculptures and artefacts from across the former land of Nubia immediately south of Aswan which was flooded in the 1960s following construction of the High Dam (most of ancient Nubia now lies beneath the waters of Lake Nasser).
The Museum is a more worthy replacement for the old Aswan Museum and enhances the city one of the newest and most rewarding museums in Egypt.
Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon EF 14mm f/2.8L II USM. 1/30 seconds at f/5.6. ISO 100.
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Frédéric II a régné sur la Prusse de 1740 à 1786. Il a attaqué avec succès l’Autriche et a conquis des territoires polonais et silésiens, transformant la Prusse en une puissance mondiale ce qui valut le titre de «Frédéric le Grand». Toutefois, les Berlinois le surnomment «Alte Fritz» (le Vieux Fred)...
La construction de cette statue équestre, d'une hauteur de 13,5 mètres, s'est faite de 1839 à 1851 sous l'œil attentif de son créateur, Christian Daniel Rauch. Frédéric se trouve sur Conde, son cheval favori, vêtu de son uniforme officiel (costume de sacre, tricorne et bottes à revers) et porte un long bâton. Au pied de cette statue, sont repréésentées nombre de grandes figures de son règne.
Part II of the bicycle (repair shop) series. The protagonist on this one is an old Diamant-bike from 1962, converted into a fixie by Martin. :)
used my Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM on my Canon EOS 450D
50mm | f/2.5 | 1/50 sec | ISO 500
After visiting Auschwitz I in March 1941, it appears that Himmler ordered that the camp be expanded, although Peter Hayes notes that, on 10 January 1941, the Polish underground told the Polish government-in-exile in London: "the Auschwitz concentration camp ...can accommodate approximately 7,000 prisoners at present, and is to be rebuilt to hold approximately 30,000." Construction of Auschwitz II-Birkenau—called a Kriegsgefangenenlager (prisoner-of-war camp) on blueprints—began in October 1941 in Brzezinka, about three kilometers from Auschwitz I. The initial plan was that Auschwitz II would consist of four sectors (Bauabschnitte I–IV), each consisting of six subcamps (BIIa–BIIf) with their own gates and fences. The first two sectors were completed (sector BI was initially a quarantine camp), but the construction of BIII began in 1943 and stopped in April 1944, and the plan for BIV was abandoned.
SS-Sturmbannführer Karl Bischoff, an architect, was the chief of construction. Based on an initial budget of RM 8.9 million, his plans called for each barracks to hold 550 prisoners, but he later changed this to 744 per barracks, which meant the camp could hold 125,000, rather than 97,000. There were 174 barracks, each measuring 35.4 by 11.0 metres (116 by 36 ft), divided into 62 bays of 4 square metres (43 sq ft). The bays were divided into "roosts", initially for three inmates and later for four. With personal space of 1 square metre (11 sq ft) to sleep and place whatever belongings they had, inmates were deprived, Robert-Jan van Pelt wrote, "of the minimum space needed to exist".
The prisoners were forced to live in the barracks as they were building them; in addition to working, they faced long roll calls at night. As a result, most prisoners in BIb (the men's camp) in the early months died of hypothermia, starvation or exhaustion within a few weeks. Some 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war arrived at Auschwitz I between 7 and 25 October 1941, but by 1 March 1942 only 945 were still registered; they were transferred to Auschwitz II, where most of them had died by May.
The first gas chamber at Auschwitz II was operational by March 1942. On or around 20 March, a transport of Polish Jews sent by the Gestapo from Silesia and Zagłębie Dąbrowskie was taken straight from the Oświęcim freight station to the Auschwitz II gas chamber, then buried in a nearby meadow. The gas chamber was located in what prisoners called the "little red house" (known as bunker 1 by the SS), a brick cottage that had been turned into a gassing facility; the windows had been bricked up and its four rooms converted into two insulated rooms, the doors of which said "Zur Desinfektion" ("to disinfection"). A second brick cottage, the "little white house" or bunker 2, was converted and operational by June 1942. When Himmler visited the camp on 17 and 18 July 1942, he was given a demonstration of a selection of Dutch Jews, a mass killing in a gas chamber in bunker 2, and a tour of the building site of Auschwitz III, the new IG Farben plant being constructed at Monowitz.
Use of bunkers I and 2 stopped in spring 1943 when the new crematoria were built, although bunker 2 became operational again in May 1944 for the murder of the Hungarian Jews. Bunker I was demolished in 1943 and bunker 2 in November 1944. Piper writes that plans for crematoria II and III show that both had an oven room 30 by 11.24 metres (98.4 by 36.9 ft) on the ground floor, and an underground dressing room 49.43 by 7.93 metres (162.2 by 26.0 ft) and gas chamber 30 by 7 metres (98 by 23 ft). The dressing rooms had wooden benches along the walls and numbered pegs for clothing. Victims would be led from these rooms to a five-yard-long narrow corridor, which in turn led to a space from which the gas chamber door opened. The chambers were white inside, and nozzles were fixed to the ceiling to resemble showerheads. The daily capacity of the crematoria (how many bodies could be burned in a 24-hour period) was 340 corpses in crematorium I; 1,440 each in crematoria II and III; and 768 each in IV and V. By June 1943 all four crematoria were operational, but crematorium I was not used after July 1943. This made the total daily capacity 4,416, although by loading three to five corpses at a time, the Sonderkommando were able to burn some 8,000 bodies a day. This maximum capacity was rarely needed; the average between 1942 and 1944 was 1,000 bodies burned every day.