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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
3/26/2011 8:08:41 PM
Thank you, dearest Srna for your condolences. They go straight to my heart.
By googling "Dialogues with Schizophrenia" which was published the same time as Rachel's "Sweet Lemons" you'll eventually (and hopefully!) be able to communicate directly. Otherwise I'll think of something else to enable this.
Warm regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
3/26/2011 5:29:47 PM
Wish you were here too, Dearest Srna, even though its also great to see your lovely face.
I saw that we have not communicated since sometime in 2007. That must have been my fault, as I hardly posted anything. I was busy writing, translating and then...a year ago I lost my dear Rachel to lung cancer. We had been together since 1983, a year after I took the photo of the Taj Mahal I sent you long ago. It was on that trip that we met.
These days the English translation of her book in which she described her childhood in a detention camp on Mauritius was published. You might find it if you googled Rachel Springmann Ribak or "Sweet Lemons," the name of her book.
Thank you, dear, for your comment and I hope we communicate mire often.
Best regards
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
3/26/2011 10:22:39 AM
As I told you, I met the curator a long time ago & corresponded with him. I think his namw was Ceman, but I can't be sure and possibly it's someone else now. Be that as it may, I'd like to be in contact with whoever it is.
Thanks again,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
3/26/2011 7:33:36 AM
Hello Nanda,
did you find the curator of the Jewish museum in Sarajevo?
Exellent shot, clear daylight showing the city and almost full moon, a rare combination.
Thank you for your comment,
Regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
3/25/2011 2:49:28 PM
Something went wrong here, Andrew. The comment I just sent you was meant for the goose-feet that somehow appeared when I clicked this photo. This one is beautiful in onother way. It shows the gloom of winter and the B&W is perfrct for this atmosphere.
Thanks again for your comment.
Regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
3/25/2011 2:43:26 PM
Wow, Andrew. This is spectacular. A detail that tells a whole story!
Today we went to the grave of my late wife Rachel, so right now life is not great, but all the same...
And how are you?
Thanks for your warm words about my photo.
Regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
3/24/2011 7:56:26 PM
This is the first time we meet here, but I already have one other Usefilm friend from Mosul.
I like the precision of this B&W, as well as the off-center composition. What flower is it?
Thank you for your warm comment on my photo.
Ma'salami,
Rafi
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| Photo By: Ezaldeen Al Obaidy
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
3/24/2011 1:02:24 PM
An unusually interesting and well captured picture of this bird, which is often ignored.
Thank you, Radovan, for your comment in my photo.
Warm regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
3/7/2011 6:41:09 AM
Hello Nanda,
I seem to remember telling you that I passed through Sarajevo on the train one night in 1988, I don't remeber if I told you that I met the curator of the Jewish museum on that train ride. Is there still a Jewish museum in Sarajevo and if there is, could you find out the name of the curator?
This is a lovely winter shot of your lovely city, all covered in white.
Thank you very much for your comment on my photo.
Warm regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
9/17/2010 10:22:48 AM
I joined those who made this exquisite butterfly photo their favorite and I loved the B&W version too.
Thank you, Dave, for your comment on my "Taxi!"
Warm regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
9/17/2010 8:16:40 AM
Thank you for this great photo. Do we know each other? Wherefrom do I have the honor of receiving your Email? Nikon is a treat camera, I used to have one, but these days I swutched to Panasonic Lumix 50 and am very pleased with it.
Ragards,
Rafael
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
9/16/2010 4:11:28 PM
Nice to see you too, Zeev, after a long time. Great photo of Mt. Tabor with gorgeous sunset colors.
Thank you for your comment and easy fasting day after tomorrow.
Shalom,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
9/16/2010 3:10:03 PM
I added this excellent cave photo to my favorites, Nanda.
Thank you for your detailed comment on my "Taxi!"
warm regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/31/2010 9:51:22 AM
I see what you meen, Ania. Go to rafael (my birthyear 1930) et bezeqint.net
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/31/2010 9:13:22 AM
What kind of problems, Ania? can I help?
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/29/2010 11:09:31 AM
Ginger does sing as a rck-star, especially at night when she is hunting her "snake," made of two shoe strings tied to each other,
You made me laugh by your comment about this, Ania.
If you want to see a previous version of a book I wrote, google Dr. Rafael Springmann, go to purchase (not to buy it) and you'll find a way for us to correspond directly.
Warm regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/29/2010 7:23:20 AM
It's not easy to capture a cat with its tongue extended, even more so when it's drinking. You captured the exactly right moment, Ania, and I congratulate you on that.
Ginger, (a she,) is indeed very interested, you might say narcistically so, in herself, as you so well described her. Thank you for that.
I send you another photo of Ginger, this time yawning
Best regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/29/2010 7:11:45 AM
Your cat is definitely deep in its thoughts. It stands out very well in your photo, Ania. My grandchildren have a cat just like yours. They call it "Shady," which in Hebrew means "Shadow-like."
Thank you for your comments on my photos. As I already told you, you see the essence in each onev of them, the play of light rays and so on.
I used to know the Polish for many words, (jin kuye bardzo, horribly spelled...) and others, jimne meaning cold etc.
Warm regards
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/28/2010 6:45:07 AM
If you goggle my name, Dr. Rafael Springmann you'll find a previous version of my "Dialogues with Schizophrenia" and going to "purchase" you'll find a way to directly write to me. I'll answer that and then we'll be able to communicate more freely.
Warm regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/17/2010 10:02:55 AM
This is the first time we meet here, also I think my fisrt Swedish UF friend. I looked at part of your portfolio, more will come later, and was ipmressed by the photos and by the abstract names you gave them. I especially liked "Transparency" as that is the way I think flowers ought to be captured.
Thank you for your commen on my "Biolight."
Best regards,
Rafael (Rafi.)
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/16/2010 9:33:40 AM
Thank yoy for being with me in grieving for Rachel. Her photo as a child is the only one I have from Mauritius. Her name at that time was still Susie, the nname she was born with in Danzig (today Gdansk) and which she carried until she repatrieted and was old enough to change it. (Susie in Hebrew means "Move!" and that's the reason she changed it.)
The name "Sweet Lemons" stem from her experieces on Maurutius that were partly nice and partly ugly and after the sweet lemon fruit she ate in the Land of Israel, at that time still under British mandate.
Warm regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/16/2010 6:27:48 AM
The last time we corresponded and commented on each other's photos was about half a year ago. You have posted many photos since, all of the very well captured, so that the comment on the present one covers them all.
I like the tiny smile on the busker's(?)face, the way his fingers seem to come alive and the general B&W composition.
Thank you. Dave, for your warm comments on my recent photos.
Warm regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/15/2010 3:50:03 PM
We have not met on these pages, but I love the movement and attention to details in your photos, especially this one, but not just this one.
You seem to like cats and so do I.
Thank you for your comment on my photo.
Hola,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/15/2010 11:00:38 AM
I googled the website you sent me and found your father in Indonesia. From hos name I thought the he (and you) ere Dutch and I also remembered the Dutch in Indonesia during WWII.
Unfortunately Rachel passed away last March, but her book, "Sweet Lemons" is due in English soon. In it she described her childhood during WWII in a British detention camp on Mauritius.
Warm regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/15/2010 10:57:38 AM
I googled the website you sent me and found your father in Indonesia. From hos name I thought the he (and you) ere Dutch and I also remembered the Dutch in Indonesia during WWII.
Unfortunately Rachel passed away last March, but her book, "Sweet Lemons" is due in English soon. In it she described her childhood during WWII in a British detention camp on Mauritius. You may find it on SweetLemonsbook together with a psychoanalytic book of mine,. The latter will later have a site of its own.
Warm regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/15/2010 10:55:34 AM
This one looks like the human brain, Nanda, but seems to be a excellent abstrat of a walnut. Very well captured.
Thank you for your comment on my Biolight.
Waem regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/15/2010 10:52:19 AM
I googled the website you sent me and found your father in Indonesia. From hos name I thought the he (and you) ere Dutch and I also remembered the Dutch in Indonesia during WWII.
Unfortunately Rachel passed away last March, but her book, "Sweet Lemons" is due in English soon. In it she described her childhood during WWII in a British detention camp on Mauritius. You may find it on SweetLemonsbook (the website) together with a psychoanalytic book of mine,. The latter will later have a site of its own.
Warm regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/15/2010 8:47:00 AM
Sorry, Harry. I tried several times but could not find your father's journey. I was also in Indonesia in 1996 for a month, going through Bali, Sulawesi, Sumatra and Java. You may find some of my photos in my portfolio. I send you the photo of my late wife RAchel (In blue jeans) dancing with Sumatra locals, up to 150 years ago cannibals.
Best wishes,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/14/2010 8:01:08 PM
Hello Harry,
Thank you for your detailed reply. I was also in Aqaba just vafter peace with Jordan was signed, as well as at the ancient Nabatean city, Petra, carved in the red rocks. We used to call it the "Red Rock" and many Israeli youngters paid with their lives for going there before there was peace.
Your bio does not tell of the country you live in, unless UF means something I donn't know.
Warm regards,
Rafi
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Critique By:
Dr. Rafael Springmann (K:89517)
8/14/2010 9:04:22 AM
This is the first time we meet here. looking at your phots, especially your abstracts and even more so the movies gives a feeling of almost exhilaration.
Thank you for your comment on my photo.
I send you a macro I recently captured
Rafi
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