GalleryWe were in Rīga during June and July of 2003 to visit family and for Peters to sing in their choir's concert in Rīga. Peter's choir also participated in that year's Latvian Song Festival. And, as with most trips, it was a chance for Peters to wander around Rīga to take in the sights, whether Rīga restored or Rīga unvarnished, still waiting for decades of post-WWII Soviet era neglect to be scraped away.
We've divided our gallery up for easier viewing:
- Old Rīga (Vecrīga)Though a swath of the old city disappeared in the 1930's to make room for what is now the Dom Church Square, Vecrīga remains a hub of city life. We wander the streets and check out an open air market.
- Some of Peters' wanderings about Rīga
- Country lifeWe bundle ourselves up and head out to the countryside for a day in the sunshine and greenery.
- Great CemeteryNow part park, part cemetery, Peters wanders through the final resting place of Latvia's historical high society.
- New York Latvian Concert ChoirPeters' choir makes the trip to Latvia for an opera-in-concert performance and to join in the 2003 Song Festival.
- FamilyThere's never enough time with family and friends. Unexpectedly, this was to be our last trip together to Latvia for far too many years.
First, an apology . . .
Peters finally created our 2003 page more than sixteen years after-the-fact. He doesn't remember why he changed film processors from Dale Labs to Adorama Camera, a local New York City establishment. Unfortunately, the scans all came back too light ("blown" highlights and lost detail), poorly color-balanced, and over-saturated — complete with fluorescent green grass. Examples below. That's not counting photos which came back upside down, and an entire roll reversed right-to-left. Unsurprisingly, Adorama no longer offers in-house film processing. They have since launched a custom printing subsidiary, Printique, which we have not tried.
