Krk Clocktower Angel

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Whilst the kids were fascinated by the wonderful missals in Krk's church and exhibition room, my eyes were attracted by the remainders of the wooden statue of an angel, up to 1973 situated on top of the cathedral's clocktower.

This clocktower is visible in many of the small alleys of Krk, and with it's green statue on top a nice counterpoint to the mostly warm colors on the ground

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having read the newspaper

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probably. reason enough he would have with all those headlines on war, injustice, hunger, epidemies. you haven't noticed? ah, they are not soo big today, nothing special, just the normal daily dose.

this is a wooden statue in my hometown's spa garden. often i've tried to make a picture out of it, and now again it's just a bland, central-composition. it just has gotten a meaning. for me, that is.

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baroque altar of st. laurentius, ainring

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yesterdays visit to ainring provided some more photos. perhaps not so creative as it is just a picture of someone else's art but this maybe is more a question of amour propre. those statues to the left and right of the baroque altar had something overwhelming for me - when i saw them on the monitor.

the church itself was open, but visitors are restricted to a very small place at the entrance, separated from the room by a heavy cast iron grid. a reasonnable reaction to the many thefts of objects of art in the 60s and 70s of last century. therefore i needed the camera as an extension of the eye to fully percieve the details of the statues and the altar.

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statue of St. Florian in Hallstatt, Austria

the seafront of a hotel in Hallstatt, Austria, is decorated with this statue of St. Florian under a window with a romanesque double arc.

on mother's day 2007 Hallstatt was really quiet and definitely worth the visit with the whole family.

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easter fountain

I know that easter is over, but it took me until yesterday to find my way to the easter fountain on Bad Reichenhall's Florianiplatz. those eggs, more than 3000, are not plastic! the fresh colours, the old buildings, the afternoon light and the absence of billboards make up for a beautiful scenery (ok - you don't see the pub with the traditional bavarian name "dirty nelly's"). so it was worth a look for me, and an incentive to come back early in the morning to see it in a different light.

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statue of St. Florian in Bad Reichenhall

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St. Florian is the patron against fire. His statue is in the oldest part of Bad Reichenhall

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