Bridges of Prague

I have learned much from the artworks of Josef Sudek and I was lucky to have lived for many years just a few steps from the place where he had lived and worked. I was walking with my analogue camera along the same alleys and old gardens of fourteenth-century Prague. Surrounded by the atmosphere of tranquillity, stillness and intimacy one could focus on a little raindrop as if it were a whole world. In the near absence of strong stimuli for the senses, it felt like shooting ones deep-laid feelings, and I waited impatiently in my dark room to see whether a piece of that early morning misty melancholy would be there... And even though digital shooting and processing are somewhat different, the core remains: Prague is very pitoresque and moody. Prague's bridges in foggy days are full of melancholy and "good-old-days" feelings. And I am still mazed by this amtosphere.