Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: shops

This is Hohestrasse, or literally "High Street" in Koln, which by the time I took this photo had mostly been closed for the night. I walked along it anyway, though, as I had nothing better to do. I had to catch the sleeper train for Prague later in the night.

As I said in earlier captions, while the Palace of Culture and Science is cultivated and interesting, the surroundings are a bizarre mix of big and small business, both cheesy and not so cheesy. All in all, the effect is a little bit hard to grasp.

I really liked the lighting in this shot, so I figured I'd post it to see what people think. :-) This was continuing down Stefanikova, shooting pictures of the shops.

Like the "Shops and Shadows" shot, I also liked this one for the lighting, but also for the irony of going, historically, from one extreme to the other. The building is blatantly Communist (unless someone knows otherwise and wants to make a fool out of me), but the shops are all small businesses, in the finest tradition of capitalism, as Wal-Mart hasn't destroyed this neighborhood yet.