There are two parts to this section.  The first was a shoot done in 1969 that we'd arranged beforehand.  My friend and his wife (Steve and Gina) and I decided that we's do a "glamor" type of shoot.  So Gina chose to wear a "hippie-goth" type of dress (long after Gothic architecture and long before Gothic Rock) and I'd have her pose in one of the openings in the wall.  Well, when I got the shots back (it was back in the "analog" [read: film] camera days) I wasn't happy with 'em at all.  So they just sat around until very recently (late 2009) when I decided to see what I could do with some of these old photos.  The result was "a new sky." I "photochopped" in the sky and trees from another photo and got rid of the blown-out background.  I liked that effect much better.

The second part of the section was shot at the same castle ruin, but about 2 years later.  I'd been discharged from the military, travelled around Europe and North Africa and was about to head back to the US.  While waiting to get a flight back, there was a rock festival held at the castle.  The weather was miserable, so everyone drank lots of anti-freeze in many different forms...and there was the inevitable amount of hash, acid and other mind-bending substances.  All I remember was that one of the bands had a drummer who reminded me of Deep Purple's Ian Paice.  "Gute Schlagen," I told him.  That translates to "good percussion" but I spose I could have said, "gutes Trommeln" which is the literal translation of "good drumming."  Oh...and explaining in German how my VW bus had eaten 3 motors...the rest is a blur.  Why I remember this 40 years later is a mystery to me.