Little Paris
Saturday, 12. May, 2012 The city of Dresden is known as one of the most beautiful places in Germany. And it absolutely is. However, most people know Dresden for what they think of as the old part of the city. There is the Frauenkirche and the Zwinger and all that magnificent architecture. There is the Elbe River with its steam boats and lots of other places to plentiful to mention.
But there is also another part of Dresden on the other side of the river that few tourists ever get to see. It's called "Neustadt", the new town, which is misleading because historically it is actually the oldest part of Dresden. It's where everything started about 800 years ago.
Today, Neustadt is a bustling place looking very much like certain parts of Paris and it's inhabited mostly by young people with a pretty liberal disposition. Consequently, you get to see things that seem rather un-German and exotic, which is exactly what makes this place an absolute treasure for street photography.
I went there just a few days ago and came back with more respectable street shots than I have produced in the last two years put together.
Here are some of the better ones.









