Poland 2019 Photography - M1key - Michal Huniewicz
Some more nostalgia from my trip to Poland earlier this year...
Welcome to Poland
Visiting the town of Tuchola where my grandmother lives.
ISO 200, 23mm, f/5.6, 1/90s.
Back in the Day...
This is a photo from 1930s superimposed over today's photo, my grandfather being the little child in the middle. I did something similar with a relatives photo from Belarus.
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Visiting Grandma
Staircase
Courtyard
The courtyard. My grandma looks after everything here being the landlady.
ISO 200, 23mm, f/2.0, 1/1000s.
Tuchola
Throughout the centuries, Tuchola would swap hands between the Germans and the Poles [1], and it's produced a somewhat unusual (if subtle) mix.
ISO 200, 23mm, f/8.0, 1/350s.
Viaduct
I decided to go for a walk where we used to walk our dog while she was still around.
ISO 200, 23mm, f/5.6, 1/210s.
Wheat
Creek
Tracks
Mr. Snail
Soviet Graves
These are graves of the Soviet soldiers involved in removing the Germans from Nazi-occupied Poland, and their presence here and elsewhere generates some controversy due to the post-war political events.
ISO 200, 23mm, f/8.0, 1/210s.
Pestka
Sepulcra Familiae Kuna
Aquaduct
My dad brought me over, and we flew the drone around this aquaduct in Buszkowo.
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.6, 1/400s.
Crops
My dad mentioned that cutting grass really low (as is customary in Poland alongside roads) renders the grass helpless in the face of summer heat, and it dries out.
ISO 200, 23mm, f/8.0, 1/340s.
Cross
Cycling Trip With Mama
My mum invited me to a cycling trip, and we put these bicycles and their three gears to the test.
ISO 200, 23mm, f/5.6, 1/850s.
Teutonic
Around Tuchola, they've traced events of a medieval battle, and you're invited to hike or cycle around them to imagine the Polish-Teutonic conflict of the 15th century.
ISO 200, 23mm, f/5.6, 1/1500s.
Heksenbergi
I was more interested in what I remembered somewhat vividly from my childhood: a local range of hills referred to as Heksenbergi (from German Hexenbergen, meaning Mountains of the Witches).
ISO 200, 23mm, f/8.0, 1/70s.
Downhill
My mum and I dared the ravines, as I texted my friend Ammar to inquire about the supposed geological origins of this area. To my surprise, most local people did not use or even know the name Heksenbergi.
ISO 200, 23mm, f/8.0, 1/60s.
Chopped
Broken Trees
We found trees broken by strong winds, more and more which have been happening here in the recent years; one of them tore off my grandmother's roof.
ISO 200, 23mm, f/5.6, 1/105s.
Bicycle
Raining
Tissue
From Above
These are the Heksenbergi hills from above. Tuchola further away.
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.6, 1/1250s.
Hills
Electricity
Church
Bright
I was 9, and didn't really understand much of what was happening.
ISO 1000, 23mm, f/4.0, 1/60s.
Chapel of Adoration
This says "Chapel of Adoration", and it's actually the morgue.
ISO 200, 23mm, f/2.0, 1/70s.
Sunset
Mum
Entanglement
We visited a natural reserve known in Polish as Rezerwat Leśny Cisy Staropolskie Imienia Leona Wyczółkowskiego.
ISO 1600, 23mm, f/5.6, 1/50s.
Bare
The reserve is here to protect the conifer trees, their beauty recognised centuries ago, and the German forest ranger Wilhelm von Block is buried here.
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Emerald
Polypore
Głęboczek
The Głęboczek lake in Tuchola. Turns out, there are tonnes of lakes named the same in Poland, the name meaning deep (kind of).
ISO 200, 23mm, f/3.6, 1/1100s.
Boat
Train Station
The train station in Tuchola (the actual building is behind me).
ISO 200, 23mm, f/4.0, 1/1600s.
Onto the Roof!
All right, we're going to the roof of my grandma's house.
ISO 800, 23mm, f/4.0, 1/60s.
Grandma
My grandmother came with me to the roof to make sure I was safe!
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Old Market
My grandmother protested to protect these trees when the city authorities decided they be cut down. She was successful.
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To Dobrocin
I had a pretty rough landing where the drone refused to land in my hand. I had to land on another roof, and get onto it through a window!
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.6, 1/400s.
Christ
My grandfather wasn't massively religious, but he did sculpt this and other figures in wood, some of which are on displays in museums.
ISO 250, 23mm, f/2.0, 1/60s.
