Let’s go back to Vienna again. This is supposed to be one of the oldest running ferris wheel’s in the world, a more modern version of which is the London eye. You can take a ten minutes ride in it and see quite a bit of Vienna. This was shot hand held.

Although I had intended to post a color version of yesterday’s photo I ended up liking the way today’s photo shaped up so here it is instead. This is the same base of the Athena statue in front of the Viennese parliament, two photos of which I had posted a few days back, albeit in color.

I had gone to an amusement park in Vienna which has (apparently) one of the oldest running ferris wheel in the world. There they had a small exhibition of sorts wherein various tableaux showed Vienna at different time periods in the past. This was Vienna after WWII if I remember correctly. I might post a color version of the same tomorrow.

The same fountain as yesterday from a different angle.

Here is another one from the Viennese parliament. This is a part of the fountain that forms the base of a statue of Athena, the whole of which can be seen in yesterday’s photo. I’ll be posting a couple more photos of this fountain from different perspectives in the days ahead. All these photos were shot hand-held.

I’m back again! I spent a fabulous Easter weekend in beautiful Vienna. So you will be seeing those photos for the next one week or so. Here is the first one, it is the parliament building in all it’s nightly glory.

Another one from the archives. I didn’t post this before as I wasn’t sure about it. Obvious criticisms would be that the composition is too centric, the perspective isn’t right and perhaps I should have framed it a bit differently, including the whole body of the climber for example. But having said that I like the way it looks in monochrome and the contrast. So here it is. Feel free to voice your criticism through email.

As I had mentioned yesterday, I got out of Cologne for a brief time yesterday evening to take advantage of the nice clear day. I went to Konigswinter which is a small town along the Rhine, roughly opposite the erstwhile capital of Germany-Bonn. It is something of a resort, lying as it does among the lovely Drachenfels, a mountainous range. My plan was to climb to the top of the tallest hill on the outer edge of the town and take some sunset photos of the breathtaking vista visible from up there. But as it turned out I was completely out of breath by the time I went a quarter of the way up! In my defence, it was a very steep gradient, at times the inclination reached 60 degrees I think! So I decided to put off the climb to the top for another day when I was better prepared and instead chose a vantage point from where the view was not so bad and clicked away. Here is the first one from that shoot. The river is of course the Rhine and the town below is Konigswinter. On the extreme right of the photo you can see a silvery round building. It is the tallest building in the state I live in.

This is the other photo I had talked about yesterday. I still cannot decide which one I like the best among the two. They both appeal to me on different levels!

Many of you might think of this as a ‘nothing’ photo, devoid of anything interesting. But I’m hoping a few of you might understand why I posted this. This is the kind of photo which reinforces my love for b/w. It is solely about the pleasures of light, shadow and contrast. I hope that comes across in this photo to you as it does to me. I have a slightly different shot of this place that I liked as well. You will get to see that tomorrow.