{"id":614,"date":"2009-09-27T20:04:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T00:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=614"},"modified":"2009-09-27T20:04:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T00:04:30","slug":"september-picture-post-photos-of-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/september-picture-post-photos-of-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"September Picture Post &#8211; Photos of Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys!<br \/>\nAfter all these very serious discussions this month (because what to give a foreign mother in law who\u2019s a snob and has everything is a serious discussion indeed) we deserved a more relaxing subject. And I realized that we haven\u2019t had a proper picture post in a very long while. Shame on me.<\/p>\n<p>But this time, I thought we should try something different. Instead of looking at my lousy photos of store names and advertising billboards, I want to show you the country as other people see it. Other people, who are actually very skilled at using cameras and taking gorgeous photos, as well. And some of them even provide informative commentaries in English. So it\u2019s a win-win situation, right?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll start with one of the most picture-perfect cities in Poland \u2013 <strong>Toru\u0144<\/strong>. Glenn Standish over at <a href=\"http:\/\/torundailyphoto.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Toru\u0144<\/strong> Daily Photo Blog<\/a> (the original English blog on <strong>Toru\u0144<\/strong>) does a magnificent job at showing the city as he sees it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/09\/torun-daily-photo-blog-header.jpg\" aria-label=\"Torun Daily Photo Blog Header\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-615\"  alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/09\/torun-daily-photo-blog-header.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/09\/torun-daily-photo-blog-header.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/09\/torun-daily-photo-blog-header-350x263.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><em>photo by Glenn Standish<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And he writes about it in English, too, which is always an awesome combination.<\/p>\n<p>Then we move on to Yellerbelly\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/warsawdailyphoto.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Warsaw Daily Photo Blog<\/a>. Also with gorgeous photos and also with short write-ups in English.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/09\/yellerbelly-warsaw-photo-blog.jpg\" aria-label=\"Yellerbelly Warsaw Photo Blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-616\"  alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/09\/yellerbelly-warsaw-photo-blog.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/09\/yellerbelly-warsaw-photo-blog.jpg 267w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/09\/yellerbelly-warsaw-photo-blog-234x350.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><em>photo by yellerbelly<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And I just love how he talks about <strong>Warszawa<\/strong> stuff that we should all know but somehow never think about anymore, like <a href=\"http:\/\/warsawdailyphoto.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/25\/escape-hatch-for-the-resistance\/\" target=\"_blank\">the story accompanying the photo of a manhole cover on <strong>ul. Miodowa<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And rounding up today\u2019s selection of photo blogs from Poland is <a href=\"http:\/\/lodzdailyphoto.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>\u0141\u00f3d\u017a<\/strong> Daily Photo<\/a> by Frank de Jol.<\/p>\n<p>No text, just photos, and all of them magnificent. <strong>\u0141\u00f3d\u017a<\/strong> is definitely one of my favorite cities in Poland (\u201cone of\u201d because it has to compete with <strong>Gda\u0144sk<\/strong> for this honor), and when I look at Frank\u2019s photos I always end up thinking, <em>\u201cGee, I never knew it was THAT beautiful.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nSo, please go and take a look!<\/p>\n<p>If you like this idea, I will feature three new photo blogs from Poland next month. That way even those readers who have never been to Poland will get a chance to see our beautiful country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"234\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/09\/yellerbelly-warsaw-photo-blog-234x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/09\/yellerbelly-warsaw-photo-blog-234x350.jpg 234w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/09\/yellerbelly-warsaw-photo-blog.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><p>Hi guys! After all these very serious discussions this month (because what to give a foreign mother in law who\u2019s a snob and has everything is a serious discussion indeed) we deserved a more relaxing subject. And I realized that we haven\u2019t had a proper picture post in a very long while. Shame on me&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/september-picture-post-photos-of-poland\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7631,7514,2389,7597,7613],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-lodz","tag-photoblogging","tag-photos","tag-torun","tag-warszawa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}