My sister wanted to go to Prague. I had always resisted the place but she was coming all the way from Australia so I dutifully got online and booked flights and hotels.
Why had I resisted? It’s meant to be the jewel of the ex-communist world, the prettiest, the most cultural, the place that seems to [...]
Author: Cathrine Black
The ancient splendor and beauty of Charles Bridge, a bridge that is beyond compare, left an impression on my imagination that will never fade.
Richard Wagner (1826)
Charles Bridge is a famous historical bridge that crosses the Vltava River in Prague, Czech Republic. Charles Bridge is a stone Gothic bridge which is a really at [...]
Nice thing about this picture is the fact that it is 8pm and there is still light.Location: entry to Charles bridgeTemperature: 19 °C (66.2 °F)The man is filming: three men in historic costumes playing on various music instruments while inviting tourist to late afternoon concertThe weather in Prague is getting better and better :)
Tomorrow is the Theme day at Daily City Blogs. So I went to the old parts of Prague to take some pictures. I ended up at Charles bridge and took this picture so you can see how the Great Charles bridge reconstruction began. From the west gate. Still lot of tourists.
Prague taxidriver at the end of Karlova street facing the Charles Bridge... and yawning :)We had a school cafeteria across the street. We were 12 or so and have to run through the old Prague (Old Town square included) to have our lunch. We have to run because we wanted to be there first. And we found it funny running in the streets :)Taken with Canonet + Tri-X
You can also see a boat from Charles Bridge. Or you can see Charles Bridge from a boat :)Prague started big and a very very long reconstruction of Charles Bridge. It will be still open for tourists but it will be slowly under reconstruction. I think it will end in 2011 or so. Maybe later. They are reusing the old stones. The originals from Petr Parler from the 14th century. And when the stone is unusable, they will make a new one but in the old fashioned way. So it will look just like when the bridge was firstly finished in 1402.More photos of Charles Bridge at Prague DP.Canonet QL17 + Kodak Tri-X 400 (exposed at 800 ISO)My Canonet QL17 series
I bet everybody who has ever been to Prague was here - at the entrance to Charles bridge with a view on Prague's castle.I think I've seen very similar photo before. But I don't know where. Maybe a lot of people shoot this while in Prague :)Photo taken with Canonet QL17 and Kodak Tri-X 400 (exposed at 800 ISO)---It's raining in Prague. And when it is raining in Prague, you better not wear flip-flops. I can confirm they are way too much dangerous on Prague's polished stone block paving.One more (photo related) thing - we had a photoshoot today and you can guess my excitement when we were shooting with a Hasselblad H3D-39 :) I don't think you can get much better. The pictures from H3D are just stunning! If you'll ever need a pro photographer in Prague then I suggest Radovan Subin.... well, I've just spent an hour surfing at Hasselblad website and going through the Hasselblad section on eBay. I should do something less time wasteful. Hope you like the Canonet series :)
Charles bridge - Prague's famous landmark - is 650 years today. Emperor Charles IV started the construction with the first stone on July 9, 1347 at 5:31 am (I don't know how they know it so exactly).There were celebrations, of course. But as we have national holidays on Thursday and Friday I think there were only tourist here celebrating while all Praguers were out of Prague :)My older posts with Charles bridge:Charles bridge and St. Nicholas Church at the Old Town SquareAnother shot of Charles bridgeCharles bridgeCharles bridge with The Queen Anna's folly
Charles bridge - Prague's famous landmark - is 650 years today. Emperor Charles IV started the construction with the first stone on July 9, 1347 at 5:31 am (I don't know how they know it so exactly).There were celebrations, of course. But as we have national holidays on Thursday and Friday I think there were only tourist here celebrating while all Praguers were out of Prague :)My older posts with Charles bridge:Charles bridge and St. Nicholas Church at the Old Town SquareAnother shot of Charles bridgeCharles bridgeCharles bridge with The Queen Anna's folly
Prague is a grey city these days. The weather is definitely not winter-like, air is heavy, the polution is getting worse, people are getting worse. Therefore I'll show you a picture from much better day. It's Charles bridge with The Queen Anna's folly on the horizon. There are wonderful gardens around the folly (which is close to Prague Castle, too). And you can take a boat trip on Vltava river as seen on the picture :)
I'm sick and haven't been out of home for a few days. So I'll serve you an older photo of Charles bridge. This is from a kind of back street which leads to a very small park with a lot of benches facing the river and Petrin hill. As you can see, there's a tower on that hill. It's called Petrin tower (guess you would guess its name yourself :). It was build in 1891 as a smaller version of Eiffel tower in Paris.
