> > From: Joaquim Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/06/28 Tue AM 09:11:19 GMT > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: Re: Porto street shots (?) > > 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?
Still the case with military establishments but that's the same worldwide. > > 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 Mountain folk are notoriously, er, "different"...... ----------------------------------------- Email provided by http://www.ntlhome.com/
