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Winter morning in Klánovice

 

© Stockczech/Sheila Atter.

Being a travel photographer can be a lonely occupation. Friends often remark enviously about my frequent ‘jaunts’ overseas, but the reality is that, like any other job, there’s plenty of hard graft and my working day often starts early in the morning and doesn’t finish until after dark.

 I specialize in images from the Czech Republic, and usually visit the country every month, spending several days shooting new images for the library, before returning home to a lot of hard work, editing and captioning my photographs and then uploading the finished results to my database where they are available for searching by photobuyers and researchers.

My January visit was a short one. I had a meeting scheduled with Brad Hoar of the Via Foundation . Via supports small initiatives throughout the Czech Republic, matching funds raised locally to help communities help themselves and I hope to be visiting some of this year’s projects and taking photographs for the publicity they so badly need.

I had a couple of days to add some new shots of Prague to the library as well. I was hoping for fresh snow, which always turns the Old Town into a magical place, but I wasn’t lucky this time. Even so, there was an opportunity to take some photographs and I took advantage of the relative lack of tourists to get pictures of the Golden Lane in Prague Castle . Leaving Klanovice, in the Prague suburbs, to catch the bus into the city centre I had to walk along the edge of the forest, and the sun shining through the bare branches of the trees inspired me to take my camera out.

~ by stockczech on February 6, 2008.