Holi festivals get more and more common in the western world, it’s like Halloween which gets more and more fans or the Oktoberfest, which gets copied in many countries. At a visit in Bratislava, by walking through the pedestrian area suddenly I was in the middle of a Holi festival. I tried to get not touched by the colors during shooting the photos 🙂
Being in Rome often reminds me of the movie “Roma” from Federico Fellini and other Italian movies playing in Rome. In the alleys and streets you find reminiscences of some scenes of those movies. All in all I like being in cities and get connections to movies I have seen …
At the boardwalk in St. Julians there are concrete sockets where you can place your camera and do long-term exposures in the night, if you don’t have a tripod with you. This was the case with me, because shortly before I had dinner and then I decided to take a walk at this nice promenade. The mirrored light in the sea and the light stars were fascinating.
Many cities have their trademarks which are typical and you can only find there, one of those trademarks are the tram buses of Hong Kong. They are slim and have a first floor, inside its is relatively tight if you want to go upstairs …
I am a fan of Japanese gardens and I’m lucky that there is one, which is named “Setagayapark”, near my home. Setagaya is a district in Tokyo and is a partner-district of Döbling in Vienna. So I used a Sunday afternoon to visit this park and have a look at the trees, bushes and leaves in the autumn.
In New Delhi I was visiting temples for 2-3 days, I think I have seen a dozen of them. I had a very pleasant taxi driver from Ashok’s Taxi Tours, which I can fully recommend, who had driven me from temple to temple and had big patience when I was away taking photos 🙂 and exploring the sights, as here the Laxminarayan Temple.
When you have reached that place, you are at the last hurdle to reach Victoria Peak in Hong Kong. Here the waiting before and the drive with the Peak Tram are over, you passed the walk through the souvenir shops and soon you are before the two big front doors to reach the observation deck.
In the backyard of the winery I looked around and saw that really old olive tree. I liked his branches and the jagged trunk, nobody there knew how old it was, but for sure older than the buildings, because they were built around this tree.
The day before my visit at the Microsoft Executive Briefing center I had a stop at a shopping mall in Bellevue. There was also a Microsoft store. These stores look similar to the Apple stores, big glass fronts, wooden floor and dozen of flat tables with the products on it. And very nice and helpful employees. For me a must see …
With the help of lights and the night I got three different blue-colors, the dark blue sky, the light blue bridge and the blue river mixed with mirrored light from different sources. For this photo I was standing on a bridge near the Schwedenplatz.
