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Post by Maria » 24 Mar 2006, 10:55

Bob Jefferson wrote:I've just been sent this link to historical photos of Portobello on the St Andrews Uni photographic archive. I think this may have been posted before. There are 118 items in total, including postcards and personal photographs.

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I think Gemini put these up once before but makes great viewing. I love the fact that the houses in West Brighton Crescent once had hen houses at the back and there were donkeys in what is now Rosefield Park.
Must have been a lot smellier round these parts back then :D
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Post by Dadaist » 24 Mar 2006, 20:36

First there was Edvard Munch's "The Scream".

Now there's "The Groan" ...

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Post by Porty » 24 Mar 2006, 20:44

:D :D :D :D
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Post by Sandra » 24 Mar 2006, 21:28

wangi wrote:"the bear" and the path:
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that picture is so cool,
that path is on the lunchtime walking route
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Post by Dadaist » 24 Mar 2006, 21:41

Sandra

I know that bit really well too - I used to stay on Waverley Park and also on Lower London Road so I've trekked around there - some nice wee windy streets around Croft An Righ and the old Elsie Inglis.

Funny old higgeldy bit of town but then lots of it is - such a mix of new and old now though.
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Post by ecm » 31 Mar 2006, 22:29

I was down in York a few weekends ago. It was a tad cold.

Didn't seem to put these chaps off.


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Nice place, York. Bit squint though.

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Post by Poppy » 01 Apr 2006, 00:25

Didn't seem to put these chaps off.
Probably making a Great Escape when they heard you and your cronies were in town!! :lol:
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Post by Dadaist » 01 Apr 2006, 01:29

That rowing photo is excellent.
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Post by ecm » 01 Apr 2006, 08:16

Poppy wrote:
Didn't seem to put these chaps off.
Probably making a Great Escape when they heard you and your cronies were in town!! :lol:

Ha!!!

Even I could run faster than they were rowing. There was no escape.

Mwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
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Post by Scorpion » 08 Apr 2006, 19:31

Surprise! Look what they found on the beach :D

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Post by mr magnolia » 09 Apr 2006, 22:41

sure your not really Gary Larson?
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Post by wangi » 16 Apr 2006, 22:44

Just spent the week in Dallas, some photos: http://www.pbase.com/wangi/dfw
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Post by Dadaist » 16 Apr 2006, 22:57

wangi wrote:Just spent the week in Dallas, some photos: http://www.pbase.com/wangi/dfw
Fantastic!

How was the food?
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Post by Dave Connelly » 17 Apr 2006, 00:12

wangi wrote:Just spent the week in Dallas, some photos: http://www.pbase.com/wangi/dfw
Digital or film :?: What camera :?:
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Post by wangi » 17 Apr 2006, 10:36

Dadaist wrote:How was the food?
As always, excellent. Managed to tick a few boxes - TexMex, BBQ/ribs, Cajun , ... Sushi, Brazilian...

Yum :)
Dave Connelly wrote:Digital or film :?: What camera :?:
Last film camera I used had 15 exposures ;) They're probably all from my Olympus E-500 digital SLR, but one or two might be from the "pocket rocket" Panasonic FX7... The page for each photo lists the camera plus exposure info under the image.

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Post by Dave Connelly » 17 Apr 2006, 11:31

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Post by Maria » 18 Apr 2006, 10:47

Just been sent some photos taken by my cousin in the Czech Republic. I thought we had had a chilly Winter but it doesn't compare to what they experienced in his village :shock:
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Post by wangi » 01 May 2006, 22:43

Looks like a hard job clearing the roof of snow, never mind the path!

St. Ninian's Churchyard, Leith:

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Toiling going through shots I took in Poland, with Warsaw up and Krakow and Auschwitz to follow...
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Post by Dadaist » 06 May 2006, 13:07

The sun setting on a golf course (Craigielaw - was there for a wedding last night)

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Post by Scorpion » 06 May 2006, 20:00

Here's a picture I took of the Pentland hills http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/gle ... G_0173.jpg
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Post by Dadaist » 06 May 2006, 20:40

Very nice - it looks like a volcano!
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Post by wangi » 08 May 2006, 22:48

Really like the 2nd last one Dada... The sky was a beaut here that night too - and some people complain about contrails! ;)

It was a bit windy today, there were four kite-surfers out this evening on the beach...

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Post by Dadaist » 09 May 2006, 23:10

V nice wangi.

Wangi - you mentioned having photos of the museum at Auschwitz. Having visited there a long time ago (1992) I'd like to see your photos at your convenience.

The people I was with went on to see the bigger camp (Birkenau) but I'd seen as much as I chose to that day and got the train back.

It's an unsettling and sombre place but I'm glad I went.

The Polish town is called Osweicim - is that right?
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Post by wangi » 10 May 2006, 09:31

No problem, i'll give drop you a note when I've uploaded them. I've still got to go through the photos from Krakow, the salt mines and Auschwitz...

The death camp at Auschwitz is on a "human scale" (if you can say such a thing), it's at Birkenau that it really hits you - the scale of the crime. The place is massive.
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Post by Dadaist » 10 May 2006, 09:51

wangi wrote:No problem, i'll give drop you a note when I've uploaded them. I've still got to go through the photos from Krakow, the salt mines and Auschwitz...

The death camp at Auschwitz is on a "human scale" (if you can say such a thing), it's at Birkenau that it really hits you - the scale of the crime. The place is massive.
I think I've learned that since - when I visited I didn't know half of what I know now - although I did see the glass containers with the spectacles and pigtails, which was more than enough.

I think if I went back I would go and see that infamous train entryway.

I don't think I was aware of the assembly-line nature of the gas chambers until I saw the film "Shoah" - for some reason I had confused the work-camp aspect and thought that people were used for slave labour for a while before being killed.

Auschwitz has that confusing aspect though - it's in 2 bits and has a work camp too - whereas other "concentration camps" could be death camps (like Treblinka and Sobibor (?)) - that is, gas chambers with a railway station.

In one sense I'd like to know more, but in another I already know more than enough.
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Post by wangi » 21 May 2006, 15:00

Fun in the fountain: http://www.pbase.com/wangi/wildflower_fountain_fun

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Post by nads » 30 May 2006, 18:52

Were you in the big barn where the kids have the picnics? my sister painted the whole barn last year, took her most of the summer but it was worth it :lol:
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Post by Dadaist » 30 May 2006, 19:14

nads wrote:Were you in the big barn where the kids have the picnics? my sister painted the whole barn last year, took her most of the summer but it was worth it :lol:
If only I'd known! No, I wasn't there - we went to the cafe first and then went round.

Did your sister also paint the (for sale) pictures hanging in the cafe?
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Post by nads » 31 May 2006, 09:10

No as far as I am aware it was just the shed, think they may have managed the for sale signs themselves...
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Post by bellybabe » 31 May 2006, 09:12

nads wrote:Were you in the big barn where the kids have the picnics? my sister painted the whole barn last year, took her most of the summer but it was worth it :lol:
She was doing it while we were there last year, and making a brilliant job of it! We got talking to her because I think she'd been a school friend of the friend i was with, or something. We were very impressed.

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Post by MrsMc » 31 May 2006, 09:59

nads wrote:Were you in the big barn where the kids have the picnics? my sister painted the whole barn last year, took her most of the summer but it was worth it :lol:
It's gorgeous! I love East Links. We went about about a month ago and got to bottle feed some lambs... (Cluckcluckcluck - and that wasn't the hens)

The hay barn is wicked. I couldn't resist having a go on the climbing wall - ended up with a bruised thigh - but got a lot of the dads attention and were all competing with each other. (Just couldn't be outdone by a female eh? ;)
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