Another one from the circus. This guy did some amazing stuff along with a fellow gymnast.

A little over a week ago I went to a circus with some friends, a circus which is apparently one of the best and most well known in Germany. Of course, my camera went with me and I got some photos I’m satisfied with. Here is one of them.

This photo has been digitally manipulated to a great extent. I used a much much warmer white balance and more importantly added a lot of dynamic range to the photo. So in the end this is not about what my camera captured but how I interpreted the scene afterwards.

I’ve never really posted any fun shots here so inspite of my misgivings I decided to post this. The woman to the right is my friend Katya whom the regulars among you may recognize from [here](http://www.visual.arthedains.com/index.php?showimage=106). I had gone with her to a Vivienne Westwood retrospective in Dusseldorf, a city close by. After we had seen the show we were walking around near the Rhine when we saw the poster and she asked me to take a photo of her next to it. After the usual ‘I was here’ snap I asked her to do an imitation of Westwood in the poster. This is what she came up with!

Again, let us take a break from Vienna for a couple of photos I shot in my garden this morning. I’ll be posting a monochrome version of this leaf from a slightly different angle tomorrow.

Another macro of the flowers from yesterday. It was a pain trying to focus the stamen (or is it anther?), ended up with some nice back pain.

Moving onto other stuff, the 2006 photobloggies opened for nominations today. You can nominate your favorite photoblogs under various categories [here](http://2006.photobloggies.org/).

Lets take a break from Vienna for a little while! Instead, here is something I found in my garden the other day. Don’t know what the flower is called though. Anyone knows?

Something from my archives as I don’t have anything new to put up. This is the Dom again, a few photos of which I have posted earlier.

Another one from my garden.

One of the few night shots here. Shots like this make me wonder why I do not try more night shots!