I wanted to prepare something special for the St Valentine’s Day. I was thinking about another wallpaper but finally I decided to prepare a special e-postcard for the visitors of my blog. I didn’t want to install any e-card script on my blog, so I just uploaded the JPGs files. You are free to save them and paste them into your love e-mails. I hop you like them.
3 versions are available: 480px, 600px and 800px.

postcard 600px, postcard 800px

Since I have been stuck at home recently I had no chance to take some nice photos. Luckily, today I had the great occasion. The winter sun was setting over the roofs of my city and because of the clouds the sun looked like the Jupiter. Camera: Samsung GX 10, Lens: Sigma 70 - 300 mm (300mm) F4-5.6, APO DG Macro.



Deutsche Reichsbahn - The German Reich’s Railways, 2 World War original freight cars used to transport Jews from ghettos to concentration and death camps. Radegast Bahnhof (Radegast Station) is the old railway siding that was turned into Litzmannstadt ghetto station (name of the city was changed to Litzmannstadt). The station was the destination of transports of Jews from Poland and Germany and then, after couple of years was the place from where the Jews were taken to the death camps. Firstly to Kulmhof (Chelmno nad Nerem) then to Auschwitz Birkenau (Oświęcim Brzezinka). The siding and the ghetto survived the war, and the original look of the station was reconstructed due to the 60 anniversary of liquidation of the Litzmannstadt ghetto. Camera: Samsung GX 10, Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach.

December 2007, Poland, Lodz, Park Staromiejski known as “Park Sledzia” (Park of the herring). The strange name of the place comes from the fish market that used to be in that place. The park lays at the edge of Baluty - Old Jewish district of the town (and former Litzmannstadt Ghetto) and the city centre. The market was one of the most smelly places in Lodz, and the river that used to flow in the place of Polnocna Street (North Street) was one of the most polluted, that finally was covered and turned into sewer.
Today the park is quite nice place with its trees, water pools and the paths with the stylised lampposts. It is a green patch just beside the crowdy and grey city centre, however it is not a good place to have a walk at night. Camera: Samsung GX 10, Lens Samsung 17-50mm + Hama Polar filter.