Sunday, October 22, 2000

Neuschwanstein.


Neuschwanstein is a huge place - a small universe, complete to itself. To a photographer it is a special problem because it is a brilliant light machine that captures and hurls light from its walls and parapets like Thor flinging thunderbolts down out of heaven. A few knowledgeable photographers could be seen scratching their heads and twisting their lenses; other people fired away with point-and-shoots, their tiny flash bulbs winking at the great white palace.
I will not insult its original owner, Crazy Ludwig, by comparing his castle with that counterfeit thing in Orlando. Neuschwanstein's best view is not the view OF the castle - no, Prince Ludwig was not that crazy - it is the view FROM his castle.



Schloß Hohenschwangau, where Ludwig grew up, in many ways was more remarkable and a lot more photogenic, but it is only a castle. A good place to dream perhaps; but Neuschwanstein is a palace beyond all dreams.



© John Womack, 2006. All Rights Reserved.

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