Vienna

After a scientific congress in the Orangerie of Schönbrunn Palace, I used the opportunity to take some shots of the surroundings. I packed my Nikon Coolpix A in my business bag; it’s light and handy and helpful for situations like this, where you have half an hour of time to shoot some photos, but you won’t carry too much weight. Since thousands of pictures of Schönbrunn exists already, I tried that different approach with the park bench in front. 🙂

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• Camera: COOLPIX A
• Aperture: ƒ/7.1
• Shutter speed: 1/400s
• Focal length: 18.5mm
• ISO: 100

On that hot, sunny day, we planned a relaxing walking session for a Sunday afternoon. What we didn’t recognize before was that the way went uphill about 4/2.5 km/miles, anything but relaxing :-). We arrived completely sweated on the hill, I was lucky, that I had only my Leica X Vario with me, which is relatively light. After my hands had been dry, I did a shot of that chestnut tree; it had an unusual form, the branches broadened up with height.

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• Camera: LEICA X VARIO (Typ 107)
• Aperture: ƒ/16
• Shutter speed: 1/100s
• Focal length: 34.6mm
• ISO: 100

I was the godfather for my nice’s confirmation, after the church ceremony and lunch, the classical confirmation trip brought us to the amusement park “Prater” in Vienna. I decided to attend a smooth ride, and soon I was on “Koidl’s Ferris Wheel” from where I had a great view of the park from above.

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• Camera: ILCE-7RM2
• Aperture: ƒ/5.6
• Shutter speed: 1/200s
• Focal length: 35mm
• ISO: 100

After I was visiting my brother in the hospital, I got hungry and wanted to go to a “Make my Burger” – McDonald’s. I like the idea, to make the burger yourself, you can choose a bun made of spelt, and choose the ingredients in a way, that the burger doesn’t get too fat. From the parking lot, I spied that building, tinted lightly in orange and yellow from the sinking sun, a perfect evening shot for the iPhone. 🙂

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• Camera: iPhone 6 Plus
• Aperture: ƒ/2.2
• Shutter speed: 1/172s
• Focal length: 4.15mm
• ISO: 32

In that office, where I attended a technical lecture about Citrix Netscaler, office space was separated by aquariums. That one shown in the photo was the most interesting because the population was piranhas. I had the luck that I could see the feeding; the food looked like dry dog food. The piranhas were fast like an arrow while snapping after the food. Better not go bathing in the Amazon while they are hungry. 🙂

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• Camera: iPhone 6 Plus
• Aperture: ƒ/2.2
• Shutter speed: 1/33s
• Focal length: 4.15mm
• ISO: 100

As I got the newsletter from Trey Ratcliff, a great photographer from New Zealand, that he will hold a photo walk in Vienna, for me it was evident to join. The start was at the Ritz Carlton on the Stubenring, the tour bus was parking there, and about 100 people waited. The waiting area was on a bikeway, so occasionally a driver went through the crowd. Punctual at 5 pm the event started, it was a friendly atmosphere. First Trey and his friend Curtis were talking with the people face to face, then Trey took his camera and tripod, and the event began.

The walk went from sight to sight, Opera, Natural historical museum, Volksgarten, city hall. At every location, Trey climbed his mobile pedestal and gave some tips. I liked it.

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• Camera: ILCE-7RM2
• Aperture: ƒ/5.6
• Shutter speed: 1/40s
• Focal length: 24mm
• ISO: 250

Often I use a walk to make a photo-walk with shooting some street scenes. Some weeks ago in Vienna, we had visited a Cafe and with friends and then used the mild climate for a walk in the nightly city. If you are on the move with friends which are no photographers, there’s no way to use a tripod. So I did my shots by hand, with concentration and with holding the breath, to minimize any camera shake.  🙂

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• Camera: ILCE-7RM2
• Aperture: ƒ/4
• Shutter speed: 1/50s
• Focal length: 17mm
• ISO: 25600

It would be interesting to know if the gardens of Schönbrunn existed in that form during the time of Empress Maria Theresia? I think so. However today these chopped shrubs give a beautiful picture of symmetry and art. For the gardener it’s “a never-ending story,” there are hundreds of those bushes, with finishing the last one, you can go to number 1 and start over again because the growth of the leaves doesn’t stop. 🙂

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• Camera: SLT-A35
• Aperture: ƒ/7.1
• Shutter speed: 1/160s
• Focal length: 45mm
• ISO: 100

My Sunday walking session brought me to that observation plateau on a hill in “Lainzer Tiergarten.” The way was steadily 5 miles upward, and my wife Karin and me were happy, that we have finally reached the peak of the hill, where we got that view as a reward. It was a bit windy, what we welcomed because we were sweating, we had underestimated the hot weather and were clothed too heavily.

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• Camera: LEICA X VARIO (Typ 107)
• Aperture: ƒ/6.4
• Shutter speed: 1/500s
• Focal length: 46mm
• ISO: 100

The Styria festival brought me to the town hall of Vienna. Some friends and my wife were with me; we tried the Styrian white wine name Grauburgunder, excellent, tastes like Chardonnay. Then the night has already arrived, and I took some high-ISO shots, like that with the street lights on a footpath up to the town-hall, a high building.

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• Camera: ILCE-7S
• Aperture: ƒ/3.2
• Shutter speed: 1/50s
• Focal length: 55mm
• ISO: 5000