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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape Photography Locations => Topic started by: OnlyNorth on January 16, 2015, 04:49:09 am
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Recent tragic events reminded me about a short break I did in 2013 during the travel from Strasbourg to Bucharest.
(This statue I found in Berchtesgaden, on the ground, in a corner.)
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Very evocative, including the blood-red coloring…
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To francois:
I was impressed by the condition of this statue which seemed to be lost on the ground in a corner of a kind of a backyard ,so I post-processed it in that way and then I forgot it on a HD until now when those events brought it into my attention.
Thank for Your interest.
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I succeeded to fiind a room in Berchtesgaden instead of Schonau where there was no place at that end of August.That meant nothing because the distance between this two small towns is around 3 miles.
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At a first and superficial sight,the people, who live here, have a child soul.
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Of course,the world,even in such small town(around 8000 souls) is more complex and not so clear and clean behind the walls.
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A possible dimmer side of this town comes from the past and is linked by the Nazi leaders' houses,including Hitler's "Eagle's Nest''.
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Here, in Berchtesgaden, all tourists, around me, were Germans, speaking, more or less, a personal English and not the same with mine :).However, I hope I understood well that Obersalzberg is the name of a mountainside or maybe a mountain zone,nearby the Berchtesgaden, where the Nazi leaders' retreat homes were.
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There,in Obersalzberg,after World War II, was a retreat space for military.
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From Berchtesgaden is a road that goes there by car or by bus.Limited time conducted me not towards the Nazi relics which are unpleasently for me(like all it happend with East Europe after WW2)
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Here in Berchtesgaden I found,at that end of August,a small hotel(12 rooms),neither cheap nor expansive( 70 E per night ) with shower,parking car, breakfast and wireless connexion at 2.5 miles from Schonau.What I did not know was that the hotel was on a kind of hill and the parking was at the foot of it.So to carry up the luggages was provocatively but not tiredly because I have a light but strong two-weels hand-cart in the car.Next day I went by foot to the Schonau.
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The road towards the Schonau passes close to the small lawns
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and farms.
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Then it crosses a river
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and arrives to the Schonau where a "dolce far niente" air from the end of 19th c. seemed to float.
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Schonau is beside the Konigssee lake.Here I experienced an unsettled weather.
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At the docks there are electric boats. A boat is around 60ft long with a capacity of 80 people.There are and smaller boats with 20 seats.Electric traffic on this lake was introduced as early as 1909! It can choose more directions.I paid around 14 E from Schonau to St.Bartholomew Church.The weather got better so my worry gone .
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Konigssee is a glacial lake,much longer than wide ( around 5 miles long and under 1 mile wide ).It is parallel with Austrian border and has a small island named Christlieger.There, it is a St.John Napomuk statue which was erected after all of four persons involved in a boat accident had been rescued at the beginning of 18th c.There is no boat service towards this island.Another highlight is this small waterfall.
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The boat stopped near a cliff-wall and a member of the crew begun to play a song.Then entire boat filled with echo-song.The Germans named this cliff "Echo Wand".... The crew has always a trumpet player member :)
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St.Bartholomew Church and its place was ,for me ,a love at first glance.
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Here,it was a pilgrimage place as early as 12th c.
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Around the church was the hunting ground of the mighties of the past times.
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The church was rebuilt several times and now,with its coloured curved roof ,it shows un unexpected beautiful view to the onlooker.
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To visit the Church is not the single option for those who arrive here.
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The shore of the lake should be interestingly.
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Here,on the shore it find this memorial stone which remember, to the traveler, about the Marie Gabrielle,the wife of Rupprecht- the last Crown Prince of Bavarian Kingdom.She died at 34 in 1912 and he in 1958.
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Going through the forest it appears this small hunting hut built by Rupprecht for his Gabrielle.Germans name it Rupprechtskase.
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Here,thirsty tourists fiind water, only.
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The water is not the single way to slake the thirst.One may look for other ways.
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Beer and fishes...fishes and beer...but the fatties must wait a while :o
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Because this world is unsafe one,a prayer seems to be always well received before to go on board again.
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I left these awesome places with the wish of a quick returning.
PS : HAPPY EASTER ! to all who believe or do not yet