Last day in Prague

 It is our last day in Prague,  but our flight is not until 9 pm so have the whole day until about 6pm before we need to go to collect our bags and await the taxi.
  Time to go for breakfast first, and we are meeting up with a facebook Friend, Tom, who lives here, who is a photographer also.   So its Arcadia café again for hot chocolate and caramel waffles. After meeting up over breakfast Tom suggested we take a walk up river to Vysehrad and the Cemetery.

    We have walked up river on the castle side and eventually cross over the Palackehor most  bridge .

Having reached our destination, google maps shows a couple of different paths to take up to the top. this set of steps appears to be the best way up.

                            We are at the Top,  the Vysehrad Cemetery is next to the church.

Walking around the crypts ,which are all very lavish around the outer perimeter.  there are supposed to be quite a few famous people buried in here.

                                                                        B&w conversion

                                                     A famous Composer I believe.

                                             Around the back of the park looking upriver.

Time to make our way back now,   I had to get a shot through the arch with the Castle in the background.  Pity about the tree branches !

                                                                              Selfi time .

      I have put the 100-400mm L lens on to look down towards the Castle.
but first a shot with wide angle lens 69 seconds exposure to blur the water and show a little cloud movement.  it hasn't really worked out how I wanted though.

                              Now the long lens close up , Dam branches in the way again !

                                                                  View through a hole.

                    A Snow storm is approaching fast!   cant see the castle and Cathedral now.

                                                                      Bridge gone now!

The snow came through quickly and  has cleared just as fast, with blue sky now and the snow has already melted on the ground.

Heading back along the river now, the cloud is building nicely and is looking very interesting.

                                             These Granite paving setts look fabulous.

                                                      Look at that cloud now,   fabulous!

 Heading past the "Fred & Ginger" building , I need to get up to Charles Bridge to get a couple images while this cloud is looking so good.

                                      This is the Cultural centre and concert hall on an island .

Having reached the weir just before the bridge, I have set up the tripod and started to take a few long exposure images with the Lee Big stopper  a 10 stop nd filter and I noticed this large animal down on the wooden structure, it is a Cuypu (giant water rat)     quickly putting the 100-400 mm lens on managed this image .

Back to the long exposure shots now.

5dsr  17-40L 

90 seconds f14 Big stopper

Now we have just enough time to see if there will be any colour at sunset , down where the Swans are I think .  They are Very inquisitive  lol

A quick run up onto the bridge,  but the colour didn't really develop where I wanted, it looked good behind over the Cathedral and Castle but not over the bridge.

Back to our apartment to get the bags, but not before stopping to shoot the "Memorial to Victims of Communism! monument which is at the top of the road from the apartment.

The end of our New Year trip to Prague .