Photographing in Poland

[tfelton]

Next August my wife and I are going to Annopol, Poland; which I believe is sort of between Warsaw and Krakow, but a bit east. We will only be there a week and will probably only be able to visit one of those big cities. My question is, which one would be best to visit, Warsaw or Krakow, photographically speaking.

I plan to bring my ZI with a 25, 35, 50, and an Xpan with the 45. This is as much as I want to lug around. They both fit in one relatively small bag.

 

[chojna]

Depends what you like photographing,
Both have interesting buildings and transport systems
Warsaw also has a camera fair on Sundays
Krakow is probably prettier and of a more managable size if you don't have much time
I'd do both !

regards

 

[Carlos Cruz]

If you are a tourist type and want to see nice old town, waiting in line with swarms of other tourists, go to krakow. If you want to see newly built old town(reconstructed after the war in the 50s), biggest bazaar in europe pick warsaw. Since you're so close to Lodz, which is almost unknown to tourists I'd definetly go there first, it's all built in nineteenth century during "fabric hype" in Poland (at this moment it was part of russia)it was multicultural city full of jews, russians, germans and of course polish. You can see there grand mansions next to old factories.

 

[Terao]

If you go to Krakow head for the Weiliczka salt mine, extraordinary carvings in the salt underground, including a church. Stunning place, great for low light photography...

 

[santino]

I would recommend you Krakow, I'm a native pole and Warsaw isn't just what I'd call historic city (it was, but large parts of the city were destroyed during WWII). If you should decide to got to Warsaw, checkout the "Palac Kultury" a stalinist type tower. I saw some great photographs by some italian guy called gobbi or something like that.