Skwierzyna - portrait of a town

Very subjective portrait of course! Skwierzyna (former Schwerin an der Warthe) is a little town situated only about 25 km south from Gorzów. I saw this town quite often from far going south for my monthly home trip to Austria. It is distinctive by its many towers and I always thought about visiting it for a closer look. This Saturday the weather seemed comparatively nice and I took my Hasselblad 503CXi out for a little excursion. 

I learned to use the Hasselblad for portrait formats too by the prism PME45. The VFC50c digital back has a rectangular format instead the native Hasselblad square format 6x6 and with the normal waste level finder it is nearly impossible to shoot portrait format. But the PME45 not only offers through-the-lens light measuring, with this device it is quite easy to shoot portrait format. Something a Hasselblad V serie camera never was thought for!

One of the destinctive towers in the town

Protestant Church

Town Hall from 1841

Post Office

 

 

Abandoned storehouse

Inside the storehouse

Old granary

Market stalls

The back side of the pretty town - waste management