Is this a photograph? If not, why not?
Jan 27, 2014 23:30:50 #
13oct1931 wrote:
You sound like a flea on a hot griddle. Realtors m... (show quote)
Uncle Sam shipped me to Germany in 1945 when everything was kaput and the occupation was split between us, the Brits, the French and the Russians. But we got Bavaria, the most scenic of the lot. I did my first serious photography there and won my first contest with a shot of a GI standing on top of an overturned Nazi fighter plane, silhouetted against the glowing clouds of a sunset.
I was stationed at two different airbases near Munich for two years, took an overseas discharge, and worked one more year as a civilian artist in the Graphic Arts Section of the Adjutant General Office in Hoechst, near Frankfurt, so I was there for the first three years of the Allied occupation of conquered Germany. Attached is a shot of a little Christmas Fair attempting to bring cheer to kids against the backdrop of the bombed out Frankfurt cathedral. I went back to Germany 12 years later for a three-year stint as a TV art director. I had no trouble talking to girls, and in fact married one who passed away four years ago after 61 years of wedlock.
Jan 28, 2014 15:39:19 #
My apologies to the supporters of this thread. My entry above had nothing to do with the topic, and I'm sorry to have wasted space and your time. I'll try to control my impulse to yak off target. Sorry.
Jan 28, 2014 16:08:39 #
13oct1931
Loc: Lebanon, Indiana
Ah, yes...I've seen a few such scenes. For the most part, where I was stationed, the main streets were fairly clear. But--back on the side street it was rubble. Unfortunately, at that time I had a 120 Kodak camera. Took mostly snapshots and not very good ones. Eventually got a Voightlander 35 and that got me hooked on 35's.
I turned 21 while there in Germany; got my 4th stripe and thought I owned the world. Yes, those were the days.
Nowadays I shoot pixs of flowers, pretty landscapes and anything else that catches my eye. (married one of those 50+ years ago. In a few months, I will be a GREAT granddaddy.
Alyn
I turned 21 while there in Germany; got my 4th stripe and thought I owned the world. Yes, those were the days.
Nowadays I shoot pixs of flowers, pretty landscapes and anything else that catches my eye. (married one of those 50+ years ago. In a few months, I will be a GREAT granddaddy.
Alyn
Jan 28, 2014 16:28:16 #
13oct1931
Loc: Lebanon, Indiana
I hope these two pix get to you.
Alyn
PS yes we probably should have gone to a PM format. Don't worry about the naysayers.
Alyn
PS yes we probably should have gone to a PM format. Don't worry about the naysayers.
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