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Month: February 2017

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Since my last post I have struggled a bit. I posted a photo of Strasbourg & then hours later a gunman ruined the lives of countess people. It hit me harder than a) I expected & b) I care to admit Strasbourg was a massive highlight of my recent trip & it saddens me that there are people out there, for whatever reason, who decide one day to become a monster. There is no justification. There is no excuse. There is no understanding. Here is another photo of Strasbourg because it is a beautiful city and the people of Strasbourg don't deserve the sadness that has happened to them.

Are you sick of these photos yet? Hope not coz I have thousands of the things! This was from my day trip to Strasbourg, which to be honest I actually loved a heck of a lot more than I thought I would. Such a gorgeous town with amazing canal views like this. Have you visited a place that took you by surprise?

So a couple weeks ago I'm wandering around Würzburg, as you do, and I came across this amazing mural by Spanish artist @skountworks . Seeing it came about a week after I had been to Kronborg Castle in Denmark.. you know, just the home of Hamlet. The piece is called 'To be or not to be', and was inspired by an old photograph of Sarah Bernhardt performing as Hamlet from around 1900. I didn't actually see a heck of a lot of street art while I was away so it seemed pretty special that the main one I saw was from my favourite play and one of the main reasons for my trip.. well I think so anyway 😊

In the office I'm known as a bit of a grinch. It's not that I hate Christmas, it's just that it isn't my favourite time of year. I use to love Christmas but then my dad passed away & it really hasn't been the same since so now I actually try and avoid it as much as possible. This year I actually started to feel excited for the festive season after seeing the Christmas Market in Lindau but then I returned to Australia where it is summer time & temps of 30+..yeah not feeling it now. Anyone else feeling less than Christmassy this year?

When I took this photo I kinda of wanted to wait until the old man hand gone from shot hut the more I look at this photo the more I like it. Now I wonder what the old man has seen on these streets over the years. Würzburg was a weird place.. it had the most cars per capita (I'm making that up but it did seem like ever single one of the 130,000 residents had a car); it had a young population due to the University but it also had quite a lot of older people too.. In March 1945 an Allied bomb was dropped on Würzburg killing around 5000 peoppe and destroying about 90% of buildings.. all in the space of 20 minutes. It took about 20 years for historical buildings ro be reconstructed in amazingly accurate details.. and mostly by women. It is hard to think now what it was like for the people of Würzburg and the only thing that comes close for me personally is the Christchurch earthquakes. The city of Würzburg was full of contradictions and I feel that I didn't give my all because I was not at my best mentally when I visited. What I did see was beautiful and serene.. making the mask of war one I find hard to comprehend.

Missing Copenhagen .. this place is a photographers dream. Every corner you turn is just another opportunity to get the camera out

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