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.

Here is the huge Hofburg palace in Vienna, sometimes refered to as the mini-Versailles. This photo has undergone extensive post-processing. There wasn’t much dynamic range in the original image and therefore I increased this by quite a bit. It is now as close as possible to the way I had originally visualized it. It is also cropped and perspective corrected.

This one is dedicated to these five nice people. They are from India and are studying law there. I ran into them in Vienna. We had some great time together.

I’ve not been very regular in posting photos this past week due to various things coming up so I decided to post today’s earlier than usual. This is also from Vienna, it is the dome of the entrance building to the huge Hofburg palace complex. Although, ideally, I’d have liked to get the whole of the dome in the shot to really bring out that symmetry (it was too wide even for a wide angle lens) I’m quite satisfied with the way this has turned out. Hope you like it as well.

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.

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?