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On 2/2/2020 at 4:28 PM, Boojay said:

Couple from an evening river trip CL + Voigtlander 75

 

and the other side of the river

 

 

These stunning shots make the 75 1.5  Nokton look awfully good. Have you used it on your M’s?

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59 minutes ago, graphlex said:

These stunning shots make the 75 1.5  Nokton look awfully good. Have you used it on your M’s?

It's a really good lens, and yes, I often use it on both film and digital M.  This review wraps it up well 

https://www.macfilos.com/2019/09/30/first-impressions-voigtlander-nokton-75mm-f15/

Some good examples and discussion here too in case you haven't seen it

 

 

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More from Budapest..

 

 

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hello , bilbao guggenhein - november 2019

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 cl + elmarit-tl 18/2.8 :

 

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3 hours ago, ejk64 said:

hello , bilbao guggenhein - november 2019

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What a fantastic work of art.  Do you have any close detail shots of the surface?

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hello , david 

Puppy, a twelve meter high West Highland terrier, is one of the most famous dogs in the world, and above all the background image of the many photos that tourists bring back from Bilbao. Created by the American artist Jeff Koons (York, Pennsylvania, 1955), this work is located outside the Guggenheim Museum, as if it were its guardian. We can consider it as a monument to sentimentalism but also one of the main icons of modern Bilbao. The flowers that fill its stainless steel structure are changed every season.

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30 minutes ago, ejk64 said:

hello , david 

Puppy, a twelve meter high West Highland terrier, is one of the most famous dogs in the world, and above all the background image of the many photos that tourists bring back from Bilbao. Created by the American artist Jeff Koons (York, Pennsylvania, 1955), this work is located outside the Guggenheim Museum, as if it were its guardian. We can consider it as a monument to sentimentalism but also one of the main icons of modern Bilbao. The flowers that fill its stainless steel structure are changed every season.

I believe it was originally designed to be a temporary installation, but there was immense popular support (I take your reference to sentimentalism thus) for it to be permanent. Is that correct?

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This gigantic flowery West Highland White Terrier puppy was temporarily installed in 1992 in the main courtyard of the Baroque castle of Waldeck, located in the German city of Bad Arolsen, near Kassel, where the Documenta IX was then held. This first version, which was 11 meters high, was made of wood and then dismantled once the project was completed. new version with a steel structure, which was purchased in 1997 for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao's Own Collection and installed, definitively this time, in front of the museum building, in September of the same year, for its inauguration. . In this work, whose theme recalls the Banality and Made in Heaven series, the phenomenon of flowering constitutes a fundamental element since it involves an uneven and anarchic growth which breathes life into the work and returns to the power of life and its spiritual dimension.

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Where's Waldo ?     

TL 35mm 1.4      LEICA CL

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This bronze sculpture, the work of Louise Bourgeois (Paris, 1911 - New York, 2010), addresses the dual quality of motherhood, since the spider uses its silk both to design cocoons and to catch its prey, all by exploring the complexity of the human mind. Its elegant and striking presence does not go unnoticed. It is located in front of the rear facade of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

the spider has woven its web to catch the children and eat them raw ...

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Geez. I saw that puppy when it first appeared after the construction of the museum. Was there in the late 90's, I believe? Surprised to see it's still up. You'd think they'd find something else in the last what, over 20 years to replace it? It's not that great to begin with, and doesn't merit the icon status it holds. It's a chia pet, invented in the 70's. It was propped up when Koons was "famous." Famous for screwing a porn actress and proclaiming it art. He's a sensationalist, but don't listen to me. I'm opinionated. 😎

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Am 5.2.2020 um 00:49 schrieb Boojay:

More from Budapest..

 

 

The last picture is very sad. A big black point in the german and hungarian history.

But did you enjoyed your trip to Budapest. My mother is hungarian, my father german. So I'm half breed hungarian.

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3 hours ago, Jake said:

 Famous for screwing a porn actress and proclaiming it art. He's a sensationalist, but don't listen to me. I'm opinionated. 😎

 I'm not a Koons fan, but the fact is that he and that "porn actress" were married and what they did publicly they both proclaimed art. When they divorced, she illegally took their child back to Italy and he has no rights. She was/maybe is a member of the Italian Parliament. There's a lot more, but best left to the imagination.😀

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39 minutes ago, d_w_wolves said:

The last picture is very sad. A big black point in the german history.

 

 

 

On 2/4/2020 at 6:49 PM, Boojay said:
 
 
The memorial

 

For those who do not know the significance of Jayne's terrific photo and D_W_ Wolves comment above, here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:

The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a Memorial erected on April 16 2005, in Budapest, Hungary. Conceived by film director Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer [hu] to honour the Jews who were killed by fascist Arrow Cross militiamen in Budapest during World War II. They were ordered to take off their shoes, and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and were carried away. It represents their shoes left behind on the bank.

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vor 1 Minute schrieb ropo54:

 

 
 
The memorial

 

For those who do not know the significance of Jayne's terrific photo and D_W_ Wolves comment above, here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:

The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a Memorial erected on April 16 2005, in Budapest, Hungary. Conceived by film director Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer [hu] to honour the Jews who were killed by fascist Arrow Cross militiamen in Budapest during World War II. They were ordered to take off their shoes, and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and were carried away. It represents their shoes left behind on the bank.

Thank you for your post.

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Waiting for the ferry back to my backyard

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5 hours ago, ropo54 said:

 

 

 
 
The memorial

 

For those who do not know the significance of Jayne's terrific photo and D_W_ Wolves comment above, here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:

The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a Memorial erected on April 16 2005, in Budapest, Hungary. Conceived by film director Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer [hu] to honour the Jews who were killed by fascist Arrow Cross militiamen in Budapest during World War II. They were ordered to take off their shoes, and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and were carried away. It represents their shoes left behind on the bank.

Thanks Rob, I did wonder whether to attach the link when I posted.   The tour guide in Dohany Street Synagogue directed me to the shoes, their terrible story I already knew.

 

6 hours ago, d_w_wolves said:

The last picture is very sad. A big black point in the german and hungarian history.

But did you enjoyed your trip to Budapest. My mother is hungarian, my father german. So I'm half breed hungarian.

Thanks Fred, yes I enjoyed my visit very much but will have to return as there is so much to see, and the people were very helpful and friendly.

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