That's really very nice. -----Original Message----- >From: "Ralf R. Radermacher" <fotor...@gmx.de> >Sent: Jan 21, 2009 6:13 PM >To: Pentax Mailingliste <pdml@pdml.net> >Subject: PESO: Le plat pays and the sugar factory > >Two more from this year's xmas holidays. > >Not many people know that the typical Flemish landscape extends from >Belgium well into Northern France. People even used to speak Flemish >there until the government in Paris put an end to this like they've done >with all regional languages in various French regions. By the early 20th >century, there were signs on the local schoolyards saying "It is >forbidden to spit on the ground and to speak Flemish!" > >Nowadays, everybody speaks French, but the unique wide-open landscape, >"le plat pays", known from Jacques Brel's famous song with "its >cathedrals as the only mountains" and "its sky so grey that a canal >hanged itself" remains. Here's a typical scene from les Attaques, a >village along the Canal de Calais: > >http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/841415/display/15743020 > >Next one is a stitched pano of a former sugar mill, a few miles further >up the same canal. 6 frames (portrait) stitched in PanoTools (the >resulting file is over 10,000 pixels wide): > >http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/855640/display/15746918 > >As usual, your comments and suggestions... :-) > >Ralf > >-- >Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany >private homepage: http://www.fotoralf.de >manual cameras and photo galleries - updated Jan. 10, 2005 >Contarex - Kiev 60 - Horizon 202 - P6 mount lenses > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >PDML@pdml.net >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow >the directions.
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