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[Funky Ghost]

 

[Funky Ghost]

 

[Funky Ghost]

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[fretter]

 

[FilterFunk]

My God, that's beautiful!!!

 

[mpdd]

could have basically hit this guy with a baseball this afternoon, he was checking out the landslides around sunland, california
i'm liking the old school 75-300mm on the nikon Df a lot, had to stay under the car port, cause i didn't want to get the lens all wet

 

[Richland123]

 

[Munjibunga]

Neuschwanstein Castle, the inspiration for Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland. I took this one in the summer of 2014.

 

[Funky Ghost]

Also known as the Mad Kings castle yeah? Amazing history about that place. Wagner stayed there often.

 

[catcauphonic]

Neuschwanstein Castle, the inspiration for Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland. I took this one in the summer of 2014.

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Were you on a neighboring mountain or in a helicopter?

 

[Munjibunga]

View attachment 759136 She married 2 Americans and I married a British woman. Meaning how stupid is war?? My Family's building was spared, amazingly, and it was quite near the train ststion. The allies missed the station. They were trying to hit it, obviously.
I can't imagine what, at 9 years old, I would do if something like that happened to me. She escaped Communist rule at 19 years old by fleeing to the West in 1958. She was an awesome woman, along with the rest of my family, who somehow survived the war. Also a shot of Dresden today. From ashes to that, amazing.

War is different now. Back then, you just bombed the population until the enemy "cried uncle." Now one civilian collateral death causes widespread outcry.

Anyway, what I found amazing about Dresden is that all of those structures that look like they're hundreds of years old were actually built in the 1950s. There is one Lutheran Church that was rebuilt around a fragment of a wall that was left standing after the bombing. Looking at your picture above, there is a domed structure toward the left side. Our local guide informed us that the locals call it "ze lemmun skveezah" because the crenulations in the dome look like one of those wooden things you use to juice a lemon. It is also the namesake of one of my bands, the Lemon Squeezers. Here it is. There's also a picture of the Lutheran Church. The darker stones are the remnants.

 

[Munjibunga]

Were you on a neighboring mountain or in a helicopter?

Just across the valley on a footbridge. We walked over to the castle from there.

 

[Photobassist]

Just across the valley on a footbridge. We walked over to the castle from there.

I went there twice when I was stationed in Germany. I've got some slide film I took during the winter. I'll have to dig around and see if I can find it.

 

[Munjibunga]

Sleeping quarters for 400 people at Dachau concentration camp. Three levels.

 

[Richland123]

 

[fretter]

War is different now. Back then, you just bombed the population until the enemy "cried uncle." Now one civilian collateral death causes widespread outcry.

Anyway, what I found amazing about Dresden is that all of those structures that look like they're hundreds of years old were actually built in the 1950s. There is one Lutheran Church that was rebuilt around a fragment of a wall that was left standing after the bombing. Looking at your picture above, there is a domed structure toward the left side. Our local guide informed us that the locals call it "ze lemmun skveezah" because the crenulations in the dome look like one of those wooden things you use to juice a lemon. It is also the namesake of one of my bands, the Lemon Squeezers. Here it is. There's also a picture of the Lutheran Church. The darker stones are the remnants.


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The church on the right was rebuilt in the 1990s. The East German government had left it in ruins, as a war deterrent.
The same structure in 1973:

Dresden Frauenkirche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[fretter]

 

[mrpackerguy]

Is that Hohen Salzburg?

 

[fretter]

Is that Hohen Salzburg?

yes sir

 

[mrpackerguy]

yes sir

Thought so because I been there