November gone ...

I am member of a flickr group La Vuelta al Mundo that every month has a photograhpy challenge and blog about it the last day of the month. This month the group has been doing Still life photos.

Below is a selection of the ones I have been making. I must say it has been hard work as this genre is completely new to me. It has also been fun and quite a learing process: I got to know my camara a lot better (Panasonic DMC-FZ28), the photo editor Gimp (I am staying in Vienna this month and I don't have photoshop on my notebook) and I got to play with textures.


If you like still life photographs take a look at the group page where you can find many beautiful and creative photos.

Afternoon sun

It is 3:40 pm. On a sunny day the area around Südbahnhof, one of Vienna's main train stations, can look quite nice with the dusty colored rosy and yellowish buildings facing the station and receiving the afternoon sun. On a rainy misty day it just looks like something out of a really sad movie from the fifties.

There is a lot of construction going in the area as the station is going to be transformed into Viennas main train station in a couple of years.


Here is a corner of the inside of the old station. In the shadow of the ticket vending machines a guy is having problems getting his ticket, I think.

Happy Sunday.

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Corner view Vienna: Today's menu

This week's theme is "menu al día" - if you were to take us to a typical restaurant in your town, what would we find on the menu?

Well, I have only been to a typical restautant here a few times, but I guess schnitzel of some kind will be on the menu. It is usually a very large thin piece of pork or veal meat with some vegetables and potatoes.


This  restaurant it not typical Vienese, but on the other hand it is because there are so many different etnic restaurants here. And a lot of them have a Today's menu. This menu suggests meat and vegetables with bulgur and something else I don't understand, yet :-)

Anyhow, this week I am sure we will try some different food as we have family visiting.  So, I am actually quite busy and will probably not be able to look at other corner view menus around the world before the weekend.

Candles ...

inviting you to take a rest and enjoy a glühwein.

Birch in Autumn colors

A walk in the nearby Schweitzer Garten a sunny late afternoon leaving my shadow in the right bottom corner.

Happy Sunday.

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More Vienna by night

Two more shots from my walk to school. The first one is the facade of a hotel getting the Christmas lights up. The other one is of the State Opera. On the roof there is huge banner advertising for Opera for children. I have not been to an Opera yet so maybe I should start with one recommended for kids :-)

Have a great weekend.

November evenings

I have signed up for an intensive German conversation course, so two nights a week I walk along this street to the school on Opernring. It was really misty, but the lights and all the dry leaves made it look so pretty.

We don't know yet for sure how long time we will stay in Vienna, but so far until February next year. Anyhow, it is quite good with a brush up (kick in a certain bodypart) to start saying something in German ...