William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joaquim Carvalho"
Subject: Re: Porto street shots (?)
Never been to Russia but I was in Poland last year and it is a
photographer's dream.
So they don't arrest you any more for pointing your camera at the
"wrong" things?
Honestly I could not find any "wrong" things. I went through their
country by car, with some Portuguese friends who are working in Germany,
from Berlin to the Tatra Mountains. On the return trip I took trains,
buses and the underground, and visited large cities and small towns. All
the things, from houses to the bus stops, inc. cars, roads, trains and
train stations, churches and people, look old fashioned but are very
good and clean. There is cheap and good public transportation
everywhere. Ex. the train has rooms with real beds and goes directly to
Zakopane (the very small skiing village), you can go out of the train
and WALK to the cable car that goes up to one of the top skiing
mountains in the world, the cable car was built in 1936 (pre WWII) and
is still in a good condition and working. There are lots and lots of
very large trees everywhere and not too many cars, all the cars look 10,
20 or 30 years old. People look very interesting but they don't speak
English and they don't like having their picture taken so I only shot a few.
Joaquim
