Exploring the Dresden Altstat recently. A week is Dresden is nowhere near enough to take in all the museums, gardens, palaces, and beauty. Here we wandered past the Semperoper, Dresden's opera hall, for some low light after dark captures balancing shadow with a portable Godox studio flash. #GvK

Some action from the C14th Knights' Order of the Lion Rampant at History Alive when it was based at Brisbane's Fort Lytton. Always thankful HA was held in the cooler months & not the Australian summer 35degC 90%humidity.

#wirsindgreenmantlevonkleist
#reenactment #museums #GvK #History #Medieval

Netherland's Kasteel Duurstede cafe opens each Sunday from 11:00 to 17:00 so if you're hoping to cross this draw bridge to see more of the castle you need to book it for an event or visit in those hours. It looks like a lovely spot to host a lunch or a wedding surrounded by a full moat and a park.

We risked our studio flash units in some light rain at these ruins of a C10th chapel that had been ruined in an allied bombing that missed the metal works several km away in WWII, Nordrhein Westfalen 🇩🇪
#NRW #Deutschland #Germany #medieval

Kasteel de Haar in Utrecht, the most striking castle we'd encountered in three weeks of soaking up historical locations, and one that I'd say needs many more visits to really take in the massive volume of detail to be seen everywhere throughout it. File under: disgusting money. 💸💸💸

The struggle of capturing the action while your friend fails to dismount the Ferret across the field and you're getting a fit of giggles. This is not how to do a combat roll.
No reenactors were (badly) harmed in the making of this show.
#History #Museums #AusArmy #ArmouredFail #Technical

Hearing protection recommended.
Brisbane's Fort Lytton still hosts several functional 64lb cannon. Fort Lytton is one of several coastal fortifications built along Australia's coast in the 1870s to safeguard shipping lanes and ports from possible enemy raids from Russia. #History #Military #AusDef

Making magic in the lush gardens of Schloß Nordkirchen in May this year as we explored some of the best castles of Nordrhein Westfalen, Deutschland.

#wirsindgreenmantlevonkleist #GvK #History #Tourism #NRW #Deutschland #fantasy #magicgarden #Germany

Little tall for a Hobbit hole, from our Shire visit a year back.
#fantasy #LOTR

Sunset over Cochem Castle (Reichsburg Cochem) on the Mosel River, Germany. Built originally around 1000AD, this impressive castle is the largest of those along the Mosel, open to tours for part of the year, and adorned with a wealth of neo-gothic features after being rebuilt in the 1800s.