Thread: Some photos from Poland

These are some I finished editing today. They are from the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau which is 40 miles from Krakow. I'm glad the Holy Spirit touched several people in the airport and in the hotel the day before because that visit wasn't much fun. I tried to capture the whole thing in the photos. None of them are graphic.

http://www.pbase.com/steingrim/image/165885450/original

Good photos. Horrifying memories.

I've been to Germany and Europe 3 times and couldn't bring myself to visit places like that. Visiting the holocaust museum in Washington DC was all I could handle.

Those are good quality pics

Originally Posted by Pentecali

I've been to Germany and Europe 3 times and couldn't bring myself to visit places like that. Visiting the holocaust museum in Washington DC was all I could handle.

Those are good quality pics

Having had to deal with neo nazis here in Norway it had a special significance to me.

Here's some pictures from the Slovak border region. It was a rainy day in Chocholow, the town reminded me of the Maramures region in Romania close to the border to Ukraine that I visited in 2005. Later I found an absolute gem of a church, you'll see.

http://www.pbase.com/steingrim/image/165895423/original

The two similar towns I talked about are only 250 miles apart and surround the same mountain range :

https://www.google.no/maps/dir/Maram...9.367594?hl=no

Sad, but beautiful.

Wieliczka salt mine. I really needed my full frame camera down there, try taking pictures with a flash in a large cave...

http://www.pbase.com/steingrim/image/165897095/original

Were you handheld with the pics in the church?

Originally Posted by Neo

Were you handheld with the pics in the church?

Yeah, everything is handheld. Look at the exif data at the bottom of the page. The worst case was the first salt mine pic with 1/2 second at 15 mm and iso 6400. Even with the stabilization on the lens I was lucky to get a sharp shot. Many of these pics would have been totally impossible with a phone - even if the phone can do wide angle shots like that.