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| Tomek Lodowy | Grrreat !!! | |
Voted 10/10 | Fantastic story and great adventure, these photos have soul and history, I feel it, great job, thanks for sharing. Zdrowko Tomek | |
| Posted Oct 24, 2008 1:01 pm | ||
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| yatsek | Re: Grrreat !!! | |
Hasn't voted | Hi Tomek, Glad you like it. And I'm happy people your age who were born in this part of Europe are now free to go hiking/climbing/working all over the continent, not to mention the Isles:-) I hope you never stop living your dreams Jacek | |
| Posted Oct 25, 2008 5:22 am | ||
| MOCKBA | Fun album, thanks for sharing! | |
Voted 10/10 | (I also have a collection of 1980s vintage Arctics slides scanned for SP, and likely from the same brand film too LOL) | |
| Posted Oct 26, 2008 3:15 pm | ||
| yatsek | Age of Canvas | |
Hasn't voted | you mean, or something not here yet? (what about the camera? Mine was a Zenit-E :-) reliable and durable) | |
| Posted Oct 26, 2008 7:23 pm | ||
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| MOCKBA | Re: Age of Canvas | |
Voted 10/10 | Actually most of them aren't organized into anything yet :) I was stuck in town with broken leg last fall, and did a lot of scanning. Including these pictures of Ural, and a few of Kola Peninsula... Zenits was too fancy for me back then LOL, I had a succession of Smena's | |
| Posted Oct 26, 2008 8:07 pm | ||
| yatsek | LOL | |
Hasn't voted | lol1: So you do realize what kind of thing made me do this vintage job this fall lol:2 My Dad spent over 10 years beyond the Arctic circle, and he even brought some pics (made 3 years after Stalin died) so I've had the tundra somehow encoded deep inside lol3: I got my Zenit from my parents. T'was a birthday present - they'd just returned from across the eastern frontier where they found it to be a real bargain lol4: I actually had a chance to go to the States in 1980 but I didn't jump at it (have been and will be kicking myself for being that stupid till the end of my days) Anyway, thanks a million for the links, I'll definitely take a closer look at your vintage pics later - surely they're no less fun than mine | |
| Posted Oct 27, 2008 5:57 am | ||
| stinkycheezman33 | wonderful fotos | |
Voted 10/10 | great photos and it seems like such a beautiful area! would love to see more... thanks for sharing | |
| Posted Dec 8, 2008 8:17 am | ||
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| yatsek | Re: wonderful fotos | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks for your interest. I've found some fresher ones here: http://photos.poland.pl/categories/gallery,Polish_Polar_Station_Hornsund_by_Mateusz_Moskalik,gid,156094,cid,169,view,short.htm?sh=1 | |
| Posted Dec 8, 2008 11:23 am | ||
| Nanuls | Spitsbergen | |
Voted 10/10 | This is a really nice album Jacek, Spitsbergen's one of those places I've always been intrerested in - being a geographer of course. What sort of research were you doing out there? | |
| Posted Dec 8, 2008 4:03 pm | ||
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| yatsek | Re: Spitsbergen | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks, Dan, I should've cleaned some of the old dirt on the computer before posting (as they didn't bother at the scanning point:). What I was paid for was basically digging holes in the ground and collecting samples (helping a man doing research on wild geese). As to my specialism, which was geomorphology, it was sort of 19th-century approach – find yourself a problem, then think up a weird solution – no goal, no plan, no team work, no technology, sh... Actually, now I wish I hadn't gone. The alternative (unfortunately I did have to choose between the two tempting options) was a PhD in environmental protection, at technical university. The way I see it now, I made the wrong choice. | |
| Posted Dec 10, 2008 7:47 am | ||
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| Nanuls | Re: Spitsbergen | |
Voted 10/10 | Funnily enough my dissertation involved me wandering around the mountains with a spade collecting soil samples. Nothing wrong with that methodology ;) It's a shame you feel that going was the wrong choice, can't be that many people that get to go. Such is life I guess... By the way, have you had anymore thoughts about teaching? | |
| Posted Dec 10, 2008 12:01 pm | ||
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| yatsek | Re: Spitsbergen | |
Hasn't voted | Nothing wrong, right, if you wonder with a purpose, and the research geese was probably OK, I also respected the researcher. But he was a kind of addition to our – friendly but far from productive – 'team'. I also did my (master's) dissertation by walking, mapping and digging – even got honours and the results published:). I went to Spitsbergen for the obvious reason but also since I was hoping to get a post at the university. Now I think had I done that PhD in environmental protection at the other uni, I wouldn't have dropped out of (real) science. If all this was happening these days I'd simply go on to study in the West. Then my professor actually offered Alaska the following year but martial law was quicker:-( As to teaching, I've been very good at it (I do know as there were some student opinion surveys conducted), it worked fantastically, except for the finances, while I taught at the so called "good" schools/colleges but the average state school is a different matter. Anyway, believe me Dan, the older you get the worse you feel doing jobs that clash with your personality type. | |
| Posted Dec 10, 2008 3:27 pm | ||
| lcarreau | Jacek ? | |
Voted 10/10 | I apologize for not reading this report earlier (my excuse being from lack of time resulting from occupational burn-out.) I was in Norway (on a U.S. military ship) in 1978. Our port was the southernmost coast, and I remember I had to wear an overcoat outdoors, being it was quite chilly; as I sampled some Norwegian rum. So, this is the so-called "No Man's Land" that the Brits talk about? It looks like a very peaceful place; very isolated from the wars of mankind. In my opinion, you should have been allowed to travel to Alaska. Military conflicts tend to divert our chosen course through life. I hope Poland was able to solidify itself through these horrific trials and tribulations that have came to past in the Twentieth Century. I know you saw elves, but did you happen to see reindeer ??? THANKS for sharing this terrific bit of HISTORY with us !!!! | |
| Posted Mar 18, 2009 7:10 pm | ||
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| yatsek | Re: Jacek ? | |
Hasn't voted | Very kind of you, Larry - thank YOU for reading it all! Greetings from No Man's Land!!! Left-wing (at times - generally well balanced:)) Elf | |
| Posted Mar 19, 2009 6:15 am | ||
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