In the north part of the Lagiewniki Forest in City of Lodz youo can find interesting historical buildings. First two - late 17th century wooden chaapels of St Roch and St Anthony built on the water stream and possible water source - a holy well (some people still believe that water from the chapels can heal or at least is healthy). Those pictures are also my first HDR photos.
Nearby of those two chapels, the Franciscans’ Friary. Though the Friary was erected in late 17th century, the building is from the mid 18th century.
Published at May 17, 2008
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I have to mention the example of very bad behaviour I have experienced recently. One of my photos (Gloomy Jesus) was used on one of the blogs without my permision, without mentioning me as the author, and finally and luckily was uploaded from my account. The author devoted his or her blog entry to the Jesus, but it is not an excuse of using my photos without permission. I have posted my comment to the blog entry with my sacrastic complains about the situation, but my comment wasn’t accepted and the author of the blog haven’t contacted me so far to express his or her excuses and to ask me about permission to use that photo. Since the stolen photo was still uploaded from my server I decide to drasticaly mention the author what’s happened and to mention who has the rights to the photo.
Please read the disclaimer and ask for permission. I have never made any problems for private use of my photos (for the blogs or myspace profiles). All what you have to do is to ask. and don’t ask Jesus… ask me.
I know that this is a bit rough, but replacing the photo of Jesus with a warning was the only thing I could do.
Here is the second part of the photos from our last trip to the Lagiewniki Forest (Łagiewniki) in Lodz, just nearby our place. I have mentioned the variety of spieces that inhabit the Lagiewniki forest. May is a time of the mating of the frogs. You can see dozens of them in the pools and lakes. They croak so loud. Camera: Samsung GX10, lens: Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 APO DG Macro.
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A few days ago I have bought a new MTB (mountain bicycle) and realised that the biggest and old forest in the borders of city of Lodz is just 10 minutes away from my place. Łagiewniki (Uagyevnykee) forest lies on the north border of Lodz but inside the city limits. The name appeared in 11th century and comes from the small production village that was providing the bigger settlement Zgierz (now it is satelite town of Lodz) with wooden and leather vessels for drinking. It is relatively big (1205 hectares) and it is remain of the old big primeval forest. The majority of the trees are oaks (over 42pc), pine-trees (27pc), birche (20%) but there is about 101 spieces of the trees. Most of them are abou 80 years old but in the middle of the forest you can find oaks in age over 200 years. There is about 500 spieces of insects (21 spieces of butterflies), 115 spieces of birds, 21 spieces of mamals and 15 spieces of fish. Lagiewniki forest has very big population of wild boars (about 150 or 200 depends on the number of them to be eliminated and killed every year). There are also about 6 large pools or small lakes a great place for walks and picnics.
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