Galicia is inhabited by people of Celtic ancestry, like the Irish and Scots.
They're the remnant of Spain's original inhabitants before the place was
invaded by the Romans, Germans, and Arabs in ancient times.
--
Chris Crawford
Photography & Graphic Design
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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On 9/6/07 3:16 PM, "Lukasz Grabun" <lgrabun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello again,
>
> Looks like another good day to brag about my photos as if they were worth
> it; this time it's Galicia, a region in northereastern Spain, quite
> different from a common notion of what Spain looks like - Galicia is
> foggy, is green and it's climate is humid. People who live there look to
> my unexperienced eye more like Irish than Spanish - red hair, no vivacious
> gesticulation but rather calm contenplation of sea (or the Ocean, I should
> say) and unhurried life in small villages.
>
> The stay, also, has changed somewhat my way of thinking of photography
> itself.
>
> I had two bodies - OM-4 and OM-2n. The former's task was to deliver high
> quality images on properly exposed slides. 20 rolls of Velvia and E100VS,
> a sturdy tripod, a bunch of lenses from 24mm to 21cm, filters and lens
> hoods - all these to get top-notch eye-candy slides I would project on
> wall and post to internet to boost my ego.
>
> The latter - with Zuiko 50/1.8 mounted all the time - was used to take
> usual snapshot of trekking life - shots of my wife, so small compared to
> the backpack she had to carry for sixteen miles, landscapes, nature. With
> no exact lightmetering, with no tripod, no fancy focal lenghts and with no
> lens hood. But also with no stress of getting results as good as possible,
> "unconstrainedly" if such word does exist.
>
> I like shots from OM-2n much better. You will easily find out which are
> made on negatives, which on slides. Hopefully, you will see what I am
> talking about.
>
> Films used: Velvia 50, Kodak E100VS, Portra 400VC and Fuji Reala. Reala
> delivers extremely sharp and beautifuly colored pictures - try it, if you
> haven't yet done so.
>
> Here are pictures, hope you like them:
>
> http://grabun.com/zdjecia/2007/hiszpania/
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