Tyn Church Gothic Spires Countdown Timer

The Church of Our Lady before Tyn has two towers that are not the same size, which the guidebooks will tell you represents the masculine and the feminine side of the world, and which I prefer to think of as the builders running out of patience. They are black and bristling with little spikes, like something that grew there rather than something that was built, and against a grey sky they look less like architecture and more like a warning. I shot this from the Old Town Square, tilting the camera up, and the towers fill the top half of the frame while the rooftops and one other spire fill the bottom, and the whole thing has that slightly acid green cast that old film gets when it has been sitting in a drawer. The gold ball on the spire catches what little light there is. There is scaffolding on the right tower, because there is always scaffolding. I like that. It means the place is still being looked after by people who care about it, even if they do insist on doing it in full view. The sky behind kept getting darker and the towers kept getting blacker.