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675 - Dexter Rides Again

Black & white, the last refuge of the color blind, as Ted likes to say. I don't do it very often, but sometimes it is a no-brainer, for instance when there is not much color to begin with. I shot these two images yesterday morning on my way to wo

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674 - From A Distance

It was no particularly beautiful day today. It was a bit hazy, but good enough to go swimming. I shot 17 images in 20 minutes, three of them are here, the Image of the Day and another square ... ... and then there is one more that could be in my "El

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673 - De Colores

Some days ago Mark Hobson, "The Landscapist", wrote a very interesting blog entry "on seeing". He saysSo, it comes as a surprise to me that most others do not look and see in anything like the manner I do. It has become increasingly obvious to me tha

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672 - Only Pretty, What A Pity

"It’s Pretty, but is it Art?" Paul Butzi recently asked on his blog, quoting from an article in the Wall Street Journal. The article is about Dale Chihuly, his art glass and about why the exhibition "Chihuly at the de Young" is inappropriate.One of

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671 - Now You Say You're Sorry

I saw these two graces yesterday morning, I saw them today, and today it was about time to eavesdrop on them.The title is a line from the Song of the Day, the Arthur Hamilton standard "Cry Me A River", originally written for Ella Fitzgerald. Boy, a s

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670 - The Letter Home

This is one of the few images of yesterday, Wednesday. It was a gloomy day, all the time on the verge of drowning Vienna, but surprisingly it finally didn't. I shot this image very near home, it's what I call a desparation shot, but for that it turne

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669 - The Night Comes On

Tuesday I've been at work till after 8pm, and that's the time when light fades away, evening falls. You know, I have all sorts of funny rituals, and one of them is, that I use any new lens for quite some time exclusively. Sure, I may be forced to cha

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668 - Hello Sunshine

Slippin' behind again. This is the image for Monday, taken Monday afternoon. Weird reflections on the pavement. I would have had some more images, but at the moment I am completely unable to process them :)The Song of the Day is "Hello Sunshine" from

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667 - Electric Ladyland VI

I've spent most of my day sleeping and mulling over a title for yesterday's entry, and what meager fruit I earned, I earned it late afternoon on my way to the lake. I was really in a hurry, thus I had no time to experiment. I settled with an image th

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666 - The Number Of The Beast

This post was meant to be about fences, about looking down from a hill, about quiet summer mornings and such things. Of the two fence images that I shot Saturday morning, it was clear that I would take the vertical. The images were uploaded to SmugM

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665 - With A Little Help From My Friends

Yesterday I have announced that you will see more squares, well, today you get them, and I freely admit: This is byrnesque! Actually not only the final result is (and then, maybe not: Ted might have had some enhancements up his sleeve ... I'd probabl

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664 - So Long

Yes, I've done it. This image was shot with the Nikon AF-S VR 70-300mm 4.5-5.6G IF-ED. Wow, what a name :)It's not more than a test image, simply a boy on rollerskates, speeding past me on the sidewalk. This was only minutes after I'd bought the lens

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663 - Everybody's Talkin'

Two images for today and not more in common than technical data. I shot both images with the Nikon 18-200 VR at 200mm and f10. I still go "long". I even pondered about buying a new lens.Of course this would be frivolous, considering that I bought the

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662 - Easy Living

It's funny how my interests shift. At the moment I have the Nikon 18-200 VR mounted, originally by chance, just because I had needed it for Sunday's flower session, and now I use it at full 200mm to photograph ... people. I have two images today, a

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661 - You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)

I'm doing injustice to the poor guy. He only toiled with his luggage and basically was there. This is one of four images of the scene, and this is the one where the configuration was just right. Searching for a title, I found "You Can Look (But You B

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660 - Pleasantly Blue

Yesterday, right at the side of the street, I had found a strip of land between two fields, that had been left as a wild flower meadow, and at the moment it is full of wonderfully blue flowers. As yesterday's attempts had been completely fruitless,

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659 - Out To Lunch

Saturday I shot some flower images in the morning, and for some reason I thought they were good and I'd have an Image of the Day secured. Well, turned out they were not, and although I had shot 72 images during the day, I was in big trouble. Whatever

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658 - Girls On My Mind

It does not happen very often that I get asked to take an image and, funnily enough, the last two times it happened in baker's shops, the last time this Friday, when I was on my way to the train to Carinthia.The girls asked me if I would take an imag

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657 - Here We Go Again

You know this guy? We had him in "377 - I Should Have Taken It As A Warning". I took this image on Thursday morning in bad light, actually I don't even know why I took it at all. In any case I definitely did not have the intention to use it. Then, ye

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656 - Bomba O Non Bomba

If you are a photographer, you have read the recent stories about photographers being harassed for taking images on the streets. It seems to be particularly bad in the UK and in the US, here in Austria it's currently bearable. Remember "524 - For You

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655 - On A Lonely Avenue

Science Fiction ages rapidly. Read anything from the 1950s and you know what I mean. Not so Fantasy, and that may be a reason why I ws always affected more by Fantasy than by SciFi. In fact I am quite sure I have not read any SciFi book in 20 years.

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654 - Don't Wait Too Long

Let's get colorful today, will we? These are the images of Monday. I left work early enough to go swimming. The red alarm device is in the Underground. Sometimes I am a junkie for vivid colors. Give me a screaming red and my heart beats faster :) The

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653 - Too Marvelous for Words

Schmetterling, farfalla, mariposa, papillon, butterfly, ... It's interesting, in different languages some things have completely different names, just as if these languages did not have common roots. Butterflies are one of them. The Nikon 85/1.8 is n

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652 - Over The Hills And Far Away

No shallow depth of field today, no strange discs of light, just some images of Carinthia's nature, taken Saturday afternoon. I could have titled this entry "Of curves, hills and rabbits". Let's begin with curves. All these images were of course made

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651 - Night At The Station

Friday night, when I arrived at Klagenfurt's train station, I had no image yet, but I knew there are always long lines of bicycles, waiting through the night, hundreds of them, and that's what I took on. Nikon 85/1.8 at f1.8, 1/100s and ISO 1250.The

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650 - True Love Tends to Forget

These are images of yesterday, Thursday. As I have nothing for today yet and plenty of time at the moment (I'm currently on the train from Vienna to Carinthia, a four hours ride), I felt the temptation to use one of them for today. Well, I resisted.

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649 - Big Rain Tonight

Ahh, these days that begin bad and then only deteriorate! I left home in the morning and already had to duck under an umbrella. It did only rain moderately, but nevertheless enough to make me fear for my camera, and then it grew worse the whole day.

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648 - Inbetweenies

Do you know that feeling? That feeling when it is time for a new toy? Yesterday I have hinted at something and today's image was made with a new Sigma 28/1.8. You know my images made with its wider sibling, the 20/1.8, and this one has the same amazi

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647 - Out In The Street

Again two images made with the Sigma 70/2.8, one sharp from front to back, one not. I shot the images some minutes before I entered a shop and ... but that's a story for tomorrow :)The Song of the Day is "Out In The Street", again from Bruce Springs

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646 - Harley Heaven

I've spent this weekend working in Vienna, and last night, Sunday, when I left work, it poured down like mad. My first idea was to take public transport, but I finally resisted the temptation. I mounted the Sigma 30/1.4, took the umbrella out of my L

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645 - The Price You Pay

Back to normal again. Amazon has recovered during the night and SmugMug is also up again. Sorry folks.Last morning, when posting Friday's images, I'd almost posted these two as well. Uhmm ... being days behind obviously tends to weaken my memory ...

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Service Interruption

No, no new image at the moment. SmugMug, my image hoster suffers from an outage of Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3), their storage hoster. S3 has been dead for at least three hours now, and it looks like it will take them at least another hour. O

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644 - She Is Still A Mystery

Black and white again. This is the image for Friday. A woman on the street, that's for sure, but ...The Song of the Day is "She Is Still A Mystery" from the 1967 Lovin' Spoonful album "Everything Playing".

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643 - Here's That Rainy Day

Thursday was rainy. I took some mediocre images in the morning, while it was still dry, and some more interesting in late afternoon in pouring rain. I don't have the time to process all of them, but this is one of my favorites. Again I use a more or

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642 - Steppin' Out

This is an image of Wednesday afternoon. It was a hot, sunny afternoon and I went along a big street near work. The dream images of Tuesday morning still linger with me, and although I don't try to force anything, I still do mostly verticals. There a

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641 - Series Of Dreams

Remember the dream, or shall I say, the series of images that flashed through my mind when I woke up last morning? Remember that I told you about it in "638 - In The Grove""? When I went to work yesterday morning, I was constantly on the lookout for

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640 - One More Night

I left Carinthia on Sunday evening and arrived in Vienna half an hour after midnight. Is an image shot at that time an image of Sunday or an image of Monday? In "639 - Midnight Riders" my answer was a resounding "Sunday, of course!", but today I feel

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639 - Midnight Riders

It's funny, at the time of writing, this image is #3 in the list of my most popular images on SmugMug, my image hosting provider and photo community. It's an image that I took Sunday night when I arrived in Vienna. I think there is nothing particular

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638 - In The Grove

Oh Goodness, I'm hopelessly behind. These are some of the images of Saturday. Two of them are experiments in B&W conversion, and I think that the process is simple and works well. Basically the idea is to use the new B&W conversion layer in

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637 - Painted From Memory

These are the images of Friday. It took me two days of pondering about a half-written post to come to the conclusion, that I can't make rhyme nor reason of it. I finally threw it away. What's remains are three images of Friday morning, that depict ol

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636 - All Day and All of the Night

It's Friday, I'm on the train, on my way to Carinthia, and these are two images of late yesterday afternoon. Bicycles are one of my favorite subjects, and this double-portrait was my second bet for an Image of the Day, just in case #1 would not work

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635 - Out Of Time

We live in a time of big shopping centers. Malls, some central streets, they collect all the traffic, and many of the small shops near our living quarters had to close. This is in a way regrettable, but if everybody who regrets it now, had gone out i

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634 - With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming

This is the second attempt at today's Image of the Day. My first choice, a nice sunrise, perfectly matching the cliché, had some technical flaws and, honestly, at this time of the day I don't have the nerve to do it again. It's always nice to have a

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633 - Undecided

Cameras have a stunning potential to show us a world beyond our experience, yet we are so used to this fact, that it is interesting news to many people, when you tell and show them, that some of what they see on images can't be seen through human ey

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632 - Ball and Biscuit

Pretty much my only achievement today was a series of images of our cat playing with a ball. It's not a normal ball though. It has a compartment that you can fill with cat-cookies, and when he rolls the ball, cookies fall out. You can imagine that he

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631 - Summertime II

This is the image for yesterday, July 5th, and quite exactly a year ago, on July 7th, 2007 I had another image titled "266 - Summertime". I love this season, and yesterday, while on my way to the lake, I tried to find out what exactly characterizes

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630 - Oooh, What A Lucky Man I Was

Yesterday's food is from the can. I was short on time in the morning, and when I left for the train, the light was utterly flat and uninspiring. I could have delayed photographing to the evening, but on the other hand I had plenty of time for post-pr

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629 - Electric Ladyland V

Time for another installment of my "Electric Ladyland" series. This time we are in Vienna, the image is from today (caught up!!) and again I don't fight the ever present cables, the wires that keep our civilization running, again I use them. Apart fr

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628 - I'm Waiting For The Man

I had processed these two images of yesterday right in time, but this time SmugMug had thwarted my plan to catch up. They had a longer outage last night (my night that is) during which no images could be added to the site. I took both of these image

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627 - Mon Vieux Joseph

As I said, this was a very short intermezzo in Carinthia. I took the train down on Monday afternoon, and today, Wednesday, I returned to Vienna early in the morning. Of course I was swimming, albeit much too short. On my way to the lake, I took the f

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