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The Salzach River at Salzburg

the River Salzach at Salzburg - early evening

I took this photo in the early evening a few days ago in Salzburg in Austria. I shot it with my iPhone 6. I took it from the bridge across the River Salzach, a bridge that is weighed down with thousands of love locks.

Love locks are those little padlocks that become love locks by being fastened by lovers to a public structure and left there. I have lost count of the numbers of places I have seen them, but never so many as here.

From a distance the bridge looks a warm bronze colour, and it’s the reflection off thousands of locks fastened by lovers to the uprights on the bridge.

Being a practical person, my first thought was that the bridge might be in danger of collapse with the weight of that additional metal. Maybe it is. I wonder though why I didn’t take a photo of the locks on the bridge. Why didn’t I do that? What was going through my mind that decided it wasn’t a worthy subject? I amaze myself.

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9 responses to “The Salzach River at Salzburg”

  1. Tamara

    Lovely being with you there at the bridge, David! Hey, and how true about photographing the locks. Human beings are strange animals, eh?? 🙂

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    1. David Bennett

      And lovely being there with you. (Cue the sound of a lock clicking shut on the bridge).

      Haha, I bet you would have suggested that I photograph them if I had mentioned photography and the locks in the same breath.

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  2. Deb Weyrich-Cody

    Lol, (about the extra weight) thought I was the only one who had thoughts like that: ) but I rather like seeing what the lovers saw; )

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    1. David Bennett

      Now we know there are at least two of us who think like that!

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      1. Deb Weyrich-Cody

        Har! (Scary, isn’t it?; )

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        1. David Bennett

          🙂

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  3. reb

    The picture is lovely! 🙂

    Perhaps, subconsciously, you thought that ‘everybody else’ would take that picture …

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    1. David Bennett

      There’s something in what you say – and that it wouldn’t make a ‘good’ picture, and I didn’t think beyond that.

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