Prague Trip

 Stunning old building with peeling artwork.

 Tram near Wenceslas Square.

 Charles Bridge and Castle Hill.

 Canal in Old Town.

 Castle Hill with the Kafka Museum in the foreground.

 Charles Bridge, Midday.

 The many bridges across the Danube.

 6am wake up to capture Charles Bridge at sunrise.

Leaving Prague.

Last year I took a trip to Prague and it was my first time in Eastern Europe. Remember that heatwave that we got last September? Our late summer, our one week of sunshine? Well that happened the week I went to Prague and it was ace to have the sun in the sky and barely a cloud to spoil it, unlike the typical Mancunian weather I'm so used to. With this glorious sunshine on my back I fell in love with the city as soon as I arrived and have resigned myself to future trips in as many Eastern cities as I can. The architecture is stunning, a good mix of Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance in the older parts of town, through to the Brutalist architecture of the communist era when the Czech Republic was a part of the Soviet Union. 

Enthralling architecture, friendly locals, remarkable beers and all in all one of the best trips I've had, with more to compare with later in the blog.

 I used my Olympus Trip for all of these photos and I'm more than happy with the results, nice aesthetic and lovely saturation of the colours, a perfect point and shoot.

Things I like - Olympus Trip 35

Analogue photography is certainly riding a wave of of popularity again and I am completely onboard. I find you get much more satisfaction from using a film camera, that anticipation of whether the photos will work out and be worth the money you’ve just spent getting them developed (if like me you are completely winging it and have no idea how to actually use a film camera) and for me just the look and feel of an analogue camera is so much better. I love the idea that the camera I’m using may have catalogued family memories for years and may have given somebody else years of satisfying photos before me. 

This is one of the cameras I’m using at the moment, an Olympus Trip 35. I bought this camera from ebay for just £6 to accompany me on a trip to Prague and I don’t think I’ll ever look back. There will definitely be other cameras that I’ll use but after developing my first roll of film I’m totally in love with it.

As a testament to the quality of this camera this is an advertisement from the 70s featuring the legendary David Bailey (and a cheeky appearance of Phil Daniels as well.)

Some of my photos will follow in my post of my trip to Prague.