Our Germany 2016 Trip (SWC, M9, iPhone 6)

Vince Lupo said:
Raid, where's the photo of the Oskar Barnack memorial??? You did find it, yes?
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No, I did not, Vince. I was with my family, and the children were unhappy about Daddy taking so much time away from their trip. Also, it was pouring rain almost each day. I had to let them pick what they wanted to do in the trip, after having the Wetzlar visit and also meeting up with old friends.
 
We stumbled upon it quite by accident - it's located in a park alongside the river.

Amazing that many if the views that Barnack photographed back in 1914 are still there.
 
Not much has changed here. I used to walk to the streetcar station to get to my middle school each day, and on the way back home, I would stop at a kiosk close to the Bahnhof. I got a Milky Way bar each time. So, a few years ago, on my path to remember my past, I walked along the same path from the railway station to our home, passing by a kiosk at the same place as the original one. I asked the youg man working there for a bar of Milky Way, and then I asked him how old the kiosk business was for him. He told me that his family owned this kiosk since over 130 years. I smiled, and then I told him that I used to buy each day ....

Things don't change much there.
 
Who is the guy on the right of the picture?
He resembles someone I know from Bonn.

raid said:
After Wetzlar, we drove to Bonn, where I spent about seven years of my boyhood years. I met up with two good old friends from middle school after not seeing them for close to fifty years. I searched for them online, and I found them. I will show one image of our reunion here.

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raid said:
Not much has changed here. I used to walk to the streetcar station to get to my middle school each day, and on the way back home, I would stop at a kiosk close to the Bahnhof. I got a Milky Way bar each time. So, a few years ago, on my path to remember my past, I walked along the same path from the railway station to our home, passing by a kiosk at the same place as the original one. I asked the young man working there for a bar of Milky Way, and then I asked him how old the kiosk business was for him. He told me that his family owned this kiosk since over 130 years. I smiled, and then I told him that I used to buy each day ....

Things don't change much there.
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That's a really interesting story -- didn't know you lived there. Are you from there originally?
 
hendriphile said:
Thank you for posting the pictures of Bonn. As a music lover, I enjoyed seeing the city where Beethoven grew up.
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We lived in a neighborhood where each street carried the name of some well known musician. Haydnstrasse, Mozartstrasse, Beethovenstrasse, ... etc.
 
I was happy with my choice of camera equipment in this trip. I bought a small canvas bag just for this trip, to comfortably hold the M9 and the Hasselblad SWC, with room for a few small items, such as my spotmeter. The 35 Summilux was the only lens that I needed in almost all cases when I wanted to take a photo. The lens is small and light and fast, and I love hor colors come out from the M9 when used with this lens at low ISO. The SWC was there for "special occasions" when I felt like using it. I used this camera on two days, with 20 exposures for each day with 220 film. The iPhone 6 was always with me, and I never really missed a shot as I always had the right camera ready with me.
 
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