Czech Republic

Here's a darker shot. I'm not sure if this is really all that great or not, but I figured I'd at least experiment with it.

The reenactors agreed to have their photo taken, but unfortunately I didn't get their names. I hope they don't mind the effects of my horrible light meter.

The colors in Cercany on this particular day were quite good, I thought, so I decided to take some pictures while I still could. I'm not aware of whether the lock in the foreground is actually for boats, or just to facilitate water power for the old mill here, but there it is.

Here's another shot of the lock, or whatever it is, in Cercany.

I like the composition of this shot the best, as well as the reflection in the Sazava.

Getting the exposure correct on this shot was difficult, and post processing turned out to be even more so. Nevertheless, I decided that the result was fair enough to display on Flickr, since I plan to upload a lot of photos today.

I've forgotten exactly where I took this, but I really like how it came out. It's definitely one of my better motion shots, at least in my opinion. Those speeds, incidentally, are in Km/h, so we weren't actually going very fast. The shutter was just a bit slow.

Jablonec is one of the largest cities in Liberecky Kraj in Bohemia, surpassed, I think, only by Liberec. I shot this as we were driving through.

I can't remember if I've ever used real Marshall's oils, although I was trained in their use when I was a photography student. On Flickr, they're somewhat of a plague now that so many people are faking them in Photoshop. Therefore, I haven't made my own attempt until now, just because I thought of it the moment I shot this photo as the only proper way to present it. This one, like most on Flickr, is indeed a fake, although done in Gimp rather than Photoshop.

I've done a number of shots of this church, but this may be my most successful night shot.

Now....I'm back to posting photos from my Josefuv Dul trip in late 2007. Unfortunately, I don't think these are in order, but I hope you like them. I took this either the first or the second night that I was there. I've got other shots of this church taken during the day, but I don't think that I have any taken at night except for these two.

Here's the second shot of the church, taken from the rear.

On the second day that we were in Josefuv Dul, we went on a long hike in the snow, which was very heavy for so early in the winter. We were assuming that this was because we were in the mountains. Of course, hiking is being said in a loose sense, as our "hike" was all technically within the town, and only was a hike in the sense that we wandered out into the woods surrounding the town, making it look wilder than it really was.

There still is some farming around Josefuv Dul, so everyday country things like tractors are everywere, as behind the Opel Corsa here (I think that's what that car is), and that unidentified truck. I didn't really take this photo for the tractor, though. I just liked how it looked.

The owner of the restaurant on the left is a friend of a friend, although I've only met her once. I took this photo because I liked the contrast of the colors and the snow.

Because I liked the contrast of the colors with the snow, I decided to put Picture 3 into Gimp and crank the contrast and the saturation up, thus producing this.

I've seen this alleyway a few times, and eventually I found the right time to photograph it. I really like the composition that it gives, and the color contrast with the snow is also noticeable in this one.

I've never found out why this little dam (which I'm standing on, as it also forms a road) was built, but I suspect it was for a water wheel. Does anybody know? In any case, I liked this scene, so I shot this photo.