The Our Lady before Tyn Church with St. Vitus Cathedral in the background.
Category: Czech Republic
A close up shot of the Astronomical Clock’s representation of the months in Prague’s Old Town Square.
The cryptic dials of the Astronomical Clock in Prague.
On this trip to Prague, I was greeted with a disappointing sight when I reached the Charles Bridge: scaffolding. And lots of it.
The bridge is such a wondrous, romantic spot that I can’t blame the millions of tourists that flock there. To have half of it being restored was a big photographic bummer, but I did the best I could with what I had.
This pre-dawn image is what happens when you can only shoot down one side of the bridge, on one half of the bridge. I do quite like the silhouetted buildings in the background. That’s an effect you can’t get at night since so many of the towers are lit up. Here, instead, they have a more ominous feel. And since I didn’t get much of a sunrise that morning, this moody shot ended up being the winner.
The Charles Bridge at the centre of numerous other crossings of the Vlatava river in Prague.
A statue of an angel at Vysehrad in Prague.
Pigeons roost on the windowsill of Prague’s New Town Hall.
The lavish interior of the National Museum in Prague.
Crowds gather hourly below the old town hall to watch the Astronomical Clock and its automatons chime the time.
Agh! Kill it! Kill it!
These metal monsters appear outside of the Prague’s Museum Kampa, a modern art gallery on the banks of the Vlatava River.
The sculptures are the work of David Černý, a Czech sculptor whose giant, soul-consuming babies also climb the exterior of the Žižkov Television Tower in Prague. I didn’t see the TV Tower up close, but I imagine it’s harrowing to watch a massive tower being consumed by these evil creatures.