Both are fine images. The color seems to bring out more character in the
shop and its contents.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 2:13 PM
Subject: [OM] Nathan's PAD 7/2/2013: back to the past
>I lived in Brussels from 1995 to 2000. In many ways, these were some of the
>happiest years of my life. Brussels, despite the crappy climate, is one of
>the world's best places to live. So I always enjoy going back there. During
>those visits there are certain places I always pass by. One of those places
>is a second-hand bookshop in a neighbourhood of Ixelles called Matongé, or
>Little Zaire. As the name implies, it is a place with many African
>immigrants, but Brussels is a city where cultures very much mix, so you see
>all kinds of people there. The bookshop is called Librairie Hankard. I
>photographed it back in 2001, during one of my first visits back after
>moving to Zurich:
> http://www.frozenlight.eu/nathanfoto/paw/48.jpg
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> On Thursday, I was in the neighbourhood again, and I was pleased to see
> that the bookshop was still in business. I walked in, and chatted with the
> lady. It turned out that her son-in-law works for the Benelux Intellectual
> Property Office and therefore sometimes has to travel to Alicante to visit
> the EU IP office where I work. It is a small world indeed. I had a nice
> chat with her, bought a book (I am physically incapable of walking into
> this kind of bookshop without buying a book), and took at picture:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2356423952&k=h2cRpDP&lb=1&s=O
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> Both pictures with Leica equipment: the 2001 picture with an M3 on Ilford
> Delta 3200, this weeks picture with my M8.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
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