… so it is obligatory for Austrians to visit a Christmas market. The biggest one is in front of the town hall in Vienna, with dozens of booths, sculptures and a skating ground.
I think you see pipe organs only in churches, the same is true with this one in the Karlskirche, Vienna. It was built in the Baroque. The whole complex is a synthesis of art, with all the surrounding ornaments and structures.
Occasionally I visit the Viennese “Graffiti Mile” looking for new paintings. This “new” interpretation of a portrait of Sigmund Freud looks interesting and is far away from conservative 🙂 That’s the freedom of art.
The Albertina of Vienna ist not only an exhibition centre of great painters and photographers, there’s also a visitors’ way through the magnificent rooms of the House of Habsburg, an influential royal house of Austria and Europe. Those rooms were built from 1802 – 1822. It’s always funny how relatively tiny the beds, tables and chairs at those times have been, back then probably people have been a bit smaller than now. 🙂
As we saw those light mugs we immediately knew that would be an ideal fit for our terrace. Since we switched to electrical candles some months ago, we will have steady light during the nights. The vendor was a man from Berlin who crafted all those hanging exhibits by hand.
Diversity on Christmas markets is growing, beside the classical market stalls which sell candles, Christmas balls, gloves and caps you’ll see more and more exotic ones, like here in Vienna with African products …
“And I think it’s gonna be a long, long, time …. ‘Til touchdown brings me ’round again to find … I’m a rocket man “ … latest with this song the whole audience jumped off their seats and celebrated this great artitst, perfect performance, music, video walls and the songs most of us love 🙂
This was the end of the photo walk, St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. We started at the exhibition center of “Messe Ried” in the second district in Vienna and went about 3 miles where we took hundreds of photos. It was already night so a tripod was a must, and it was interesting to see the different photo equipments of the other team mates.
In Vienna the place in the front of the town hall is very popular. Often there are events with food tents, wine and beer bars and a chilly atmosphere. Those events have a motto, like Skating or Mountain Biking, Styria fest or Winter Ice dream,… If you are near, please visit
I take any opportunity to try high speed shooting with my Sony A6000. At this horse competition I took my Sony FE 70-200 G – lens to grab some shots of the horses. I took exposures during jumping, sprinting or gallop as here on the photo. Sony A6000 is really a low cost alternative for high speed shooting.
