Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: Kutna Hora

Here's the train that I took home. Worth noting in this photo is the ad on the side of the train, for a movie, Gympl, which glorifies grafitti vandals who trash trains. It's typical of the kinds of self-defeating ads that public transport services accept, and begs the question once again of why they're tolerated.

Easter is probably a more important holiday in the Czech Republic than most places, particularly in comparison with the United States, and many of the traditions are different. The junk food tradition, though, is not. Any Easter market will have large quantities of Easter pastries and candies, with stands like this one. This photo looks alright now, I think, but it was shot with the same bad film as most of my other Kutna Hora photos, and this one was not only grainy originally, but discolored, possibly from bad developer or fixer.

This is the Easter Market that was sort of my excuse for going to Kutna Hora. It was recommended, in fact, but the downside was that it was so crowded and disordered that I was unable to see most of the usual sites. That's the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin in the background, which I did get to peek inside of, but I never found the Sedlec Ossuary, or "bone church" where the interior is covered with fixtures made from the bones of plague victims. The Easter Market itself had some decent Czech food and beer, though, and I did get to spend a day walking around and seeing what I could see...

I shot most of my Kutna Hora pictures on Ektachrome, and from the look of how grainy these shots are, grainier than any slides I've ever done, I'm assuming it was Elite 400, although I seem to remember it being 200. I really doubt that 200 could look this bad, though, at least at full resolution. Oddly, the main reason I'm not posting more of these is that most of them are going to end up in an NRHS slide show sooner or later. They're the main shots I have of this trip, so I'm hoping that the story and the subject matter will be more important than resolution....