A renaissance man for the twenty-first century!
This is Hannibal: And this is Salamanca, in western Spain: The cathedral somehow looks a bit tilted, so here is a second photo to assure you that it is not tilted. It also shows the Roman Bridge, which (unbelievably!) was built in the first century AD: I believe this is the first city that I’ve […]
Continuing Part 1 of the series, this is the Rheinbrücke Konstanz (or Rhein Bridge at Constance). Today nobody gives this bridge much thought – but hundreds of years ago, after you paid a sizable toll, this would have been your gateway from a dangerous, lawless outside to the safe and Disney-Land-like city of Konstanz. The armies […]
This is a different view of the island in a recent blog post, but taken from a different angle. An interesting bit of trivia is that the various bridges (only one is shown here) are known as the pont couverts (which is French for “covered bridge”), even though the covering has been gone for quite […]
This is a picture of a Strasbourg canal, taken from the Grande Île in the Petite-France neighborhood. With all the bridges and blacktop you’d never realize this was an island – and I never realized it either until I looked it up on Wikipedia. This is also a “best kept secret” of Strasbourg, since it […]
It’s just incredible what cameras in mobile phones can do. I took this picture as the sun was setting on the bridge between Ile Saint-Louis (on the right) and Paris (left).
You’ve heard of cable cars and cable bridges and cable TV – but have you heard of a cable ferry? This is something I have not encountered very often: a car-carrying ferry across a river, which itself is pulled by a cable that runs high above the river, rather than pushed by a motor. What you […]
I suppose it’s nothing special, but still it’s one of my all-time favorite photographs that I’ve taken. I love fishing, I never associated fishing or seafood with Istanbul – and I was thrilled and impressed to see so many passionate fisherman on the bridge.