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twoelevenas i mentioned in my previous entries, we were really close to old city. on this map, our hotel is the grey square numbered 144:
our first stop in salzburg was festung hohensalzburg, a mighty but obsolete fortress that sits on a hill overlooking the old city. it's the big thing in the lower right of the map. the fortress contained a self-referential model:
and one showing its place in the city:
the fortress had some nice interior decoration, like this room, which was undergoing renovation:
and one from the other side of the door, showing the artist at work;
which also shows how far the local government has gotten in the renovations, or not.
there was an exhibit of how people lived in the fortress in its heyday. i'm very impressed by these kids' handheld entertainment systems:
but the fortress is mostly a good place to look out over some of its outworks and city itself:
that's probably the best of the panoramas, though there are a couple more in the album. that panorama is huge, about ten times as large as that image, and well worth looking at full-sized for the details.
the panoramas are in pairs, with one picture that's what comes off the camera, and one picture that's had the distortions removed to better show what things look like. the latter shows straight lines as straight, but tends to lose things in the immediate foreground.
there's also a few more images of buildings on the fortress grounds, and a few of untersberg, a nearby mountain, part of the austrian alps.
the next day, we set off for untersberg, a nearby peak.
we got to the top by cable car:
the cable car is black, making it hard to see, but it's at the top of the vertical white streak in the mountainside, or directly above the left end of the building with the peaked roof.
enjoy of some views of the scenery:
that's another immense panorama, about 12,000 pixels wide. salzburg is on the right.
the view in the other direction:
and this is me playing with the Other Eye of God, which shows how close we were to the old city and the fortress:
the fortress is at the extreme right.
...and now we pan a little to the left to find the tunnel and our hotel.
with that for reference, it's not hard to find where we were on the higher-resolution panoramas. schloss mirabell is a palace on the other side of the river, which we didn't get to at all. we're going to have to find an excuse to return to salzburg, since we didn't even see all the obviously touristy stuff, much less see anything less well known, other than das Haus der Natur.
more in the album
on the way back from untersberg, we went to hellbrunn palace, which is mostly known for its water gardens. i should have taken more pictures of the palace and the gardens, but see previous entry on trying to experience things rather than just photographing them.
i have exactly one photo which shows the palace:
the palace and the surrounding gardens were built by markus sittikus, and the water gardens met his odd sense of humor. this elaborate pseudo-roman dinner table and fountain had water jets in all the stools, except for his, so he could wet all the other diners' pants while they sat. sophisticated humor, lemme tell ya. there were a few other set-ups like that in the water garden.
one display i wish i had photos of was a bouquet of flowers under a dome of water. the flowers apparently last for weeks, since it's very humid under the water, and there's plenty of gas transfer via the flowing water.
the fountains reflect then-current fascinations with classical myths, including this fake grotto, complete with a water-powered carousel bearing classical images:
but this one is just odd:
these last two photos are forrebeccmeister. in this miniature water-powered pottery studio, water spins the potter's wheel, and moves the his arms up and down as he shapes his vase.
our first stop in salzburg was festung hohensalzburg, a mighty but obsolete fortress that sits on a hill overlooking the old city. it's the big thing in the lower right of the map. the fortress contained a self-referential model:
and one showing its place in the city:
the fortress had some nice interior decoration, like this room, which was undergoing renovation:
and one from the other side of the door, showing the artist at work;
which also shows how far the local government has gotten in the renovations, or not.
there was an exhibit of how people lived in the fortress in its heyday. i'm very impressed by these kids' handheld entertainment systems:
but the fortress is mostly a good place to look out over some of its outworks and city itself:
that's probably the best of the panoramas, though there are a couple more in the album. that panorama is huge, about ten times as large as that image, and well worth looking at full-sized for the details.
the panoramas are in pairs, with one picture that's what comes off the camera, and one picture that's had the distortions removed to better show what things look like. the latter shows straight lines as straight, but tends to lose things in the immediate foreground.
there's also a few more images of buildings on the fortress grounds, and a few of untersberg, a nearby mountain, part of the austrian alps.
the next day, we set off for untersberg, a nearby peak.
we got to the top by cable car:
the cable car is black, making it hard to see, but it's at the top of the vertical white streak in the mountainside, or directly above the left end of the building with the peaked roof.
enjoy of some views of the scenery:
that's another immense panorama, about 12,000 pixels wide. salzburg is on the right.
the view in the other direction:
and this is me playing with the Other Eye of God, which shows how close we were to the old city and the fortress:
the fortress is at the extreme right.
...and now we pan a little to the left to find the tunnel and our hotel.
with that for reference, it's not hard to find where we were on the higher-resolution panoramas. schloss mirabell is a palace on the other side of the river, which we didn't get to at all. we're going to have to find an excuse to return to salzburg, since we didn't even see all the obviously touristy stuff, much less see anything less well known, other than das Haus der Natur.
more in the album
on the way back from untersberg, we went to hellbrunn palace, which is mostly known for its water gardens. i should have taken more pictures of the palace and the gardens, but see previous entry on trying to experience things rather than just photographing them.
i have exactly one photo which shows the palace:
the palace and the surrounding gardens were built by markus sittikus, and the water gardens met his odd sense of humor. this elaborate pseudo-roman dinner table and fountain had water jets in all the stools, except for his, so he could wet all the other diners' pants while they sat. sophisticated humor, lemme tell ya. there were a few other set-ups like that in the water garden.
one display i wish i had photos of was a bouquet of flowers under a dome of water. the flowers apparently last for weeks, since it's very humid under the water, and there's plenty of gas transfer via the flowing water.
the fountains reflect then-current fascinations with classical myths, including this fake grotto, complete with a water-powered carousel bearing classical images:
but this one is just odd:
these last two photos are for
rebeccmeister. in this miniature water-powered pottery studio, water spins the potter's wheel, and moves the his arms up and down as he shapes his vase.