Cameraphone Crap

This is 5516, and of course it's a T3 trainer. I got this shot in Radlicka, as you can see from the Chapel behind it.

This was my rear shot of 5516.

This is a side view, with the "Cvicny Vuz" "Training Vehicle" logo.

This was another lucky shot of one of the new Skoda 14t trams, shot as I was walking through Kobylisy. #9166 isn't the newest one, but it's one of the newest, and when I shot this it was almost brand new.

Here's a more proper rear shot of #9166.

Here's my latest spotting of #451065-7 "City Frog," so named as a parody of the new Class 471 "City Elephant" EMU's. Still no word on who did this, or whether it was authorised.

This shot was in some ways a lucky shot, since I like how it looks, in some ways not. Really what I wanted to do was get a shot of that black tanker over by the cantenary mast, as it had, I'm not making this up, GATX markings. Apparently, GATX expanded their operations to Europe some time ago, and I've seen a lot of their stuff rolling around.

Lhota, like Slapy, is a fair-sized man-made lake, although to the best of my knowledge it's a reused quarry rather than a reservoir. Does anybody know if it's used as a reservoir???? I don't know. It is used as a swimming area, I know that much.

Here's an alternate shot of Lhota, from an area without a sand beach.

On the way back from Lhota, the friend who I was riding with parked his car in Stara Boleslav so that we could have lunch, and this happened to be the radnice there.

Next to the town hall was this church, or rather basilica, where it is alleged St. Vaclav (a.k.a. St. Wenceslas, a.k.a. St. Wenceslaus, a.k.a. Wenceslas or Wenceslaus I) was murdered by his brother Boleslav (a.k.a. Boleslaus I, a.k.a. Boleslaus the Cruel)in 935 C.E. This basilica is in a baroque style, not yet used at the time of construction (1039-1046), so I have to assume, although I don't know the history, that it was renovated at sometime in the 17th or 18th Century. At the time of the murder, however, an older church, the St. Kosma and Damian church stood here, and it is said that indeed Vaclav was murdered at the door of the older church, just not this one.

This was my second shot of the basilica.

This was my third shot of the basilica.

This is a closeup side view of the basilica, showing some odd color patches on the wall, with what looks like an electrical conduit through them. I have no idea what the reason is or was for these colors, and to say the least I'm curious.

Here's another of the new Skoda 14t trams, at Palackeho Namesti.

Every month, usually the third Thursday of the month, an organization called Auto*Mat organises a mass bike ride called Cyklojizda. This is considered by many to be Prague's Critical Mass ride, although there are a number of differences from a conventional Critical Mass ride, most notably that it is organised more deliberately, and the relations between the riders and the police are invariably better, usually with the police providing some traffic control for the riders. Typically, the ride starts here, in Namesti Jiriho z Podebrad, but in the past it has also been started from other locations, most notably Staromestske Namesti.

I've photographed Masarykovo Nadrazi many times before, but with my new cameraphone I decided to experiment a bit. This is the side entrance by the parking lot and Namesti Republiky Metro entrance.

This is slightly in the previously shown entrance. Although I've very carefully attempted this shot with the Pentax and the Nikon N80 before, I've never been able to get an exposure this good because I've never had fast enough film installed at the right time.