Salzburg City of Spires Black and White Acrylic Print

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Salzburg is most definitely a city of spires. From any one of the mountainous vantage points bordering the old town, your view will always include a selection of pointed spires, steeples and domes. In this photograph, taken from Monchsberg, the Romanesque style spires of St Peter's Abbey and Benadictine Monastery feature on the right and on the left, one of the oldest churches in Salzburg, the gothic style Franciscan Church. At the very top sits the majestic Hohensalzburg Fortress, overlooking the city from high on Festungsberg Hill. I hand blended textures with my original photograph in black and white to compliment the old world feel of this classic Austrian scene.

I'm a travel photographer and photo artist. I like to explore every nook and cranny of anywhere I visit and I'm always looking out for something unusual or unique, weird and wonderful, interesting and intriguing. For me, half the challenge is in the initial taking of the photo, the looking for something that catches my attention, getting that perfect composition, but the other half is in the processing, the tweaking and twisting and the addition of a little imagination to see how much detail I can bring to the surface and hopefully let the viewer see the same as I did when I took the shot. My images have been shot here, there and everywhere, mainly in the historic cities of Europe and with the occasional one taken in my own surroundings...