Prague Snow Tilt Shift Panorama Countdown Timer

There are about four of these tilt-shift Prague snow shots in this collection and I am not going to apologize for any of them, because each one catches the city from a different hill and the city is never quite the same twice. This is the wide one, the panorama, with the Vltava running along the bottom and the Charles Bridge at the left edge and the whole snowy plain of rooftops stretching out to the blurred hills. What the wide frame gives you is the repetition: church after church, roof after roof, chimney after chimney, all of it dusted white and all of it looking, at this scale, like a very elaborate model village. The river is the only thing that is not white, dark and slow, with a boat cutting a thin line across it. I like the emptiness of it. There is nobody visible in the whole frame, though there must be thousands of people down there, and the effect is of a city that has been paused. I shot this in about four minutes before my fingers gave up. Then I went back inside and drank something hot and looked at the screen and laughed.