Tall Building - Old Lens Last night the tallest building in Austria (60 floors, 250m) was opened in Vienna. Floodlights illuminated the building. I chose an old 18-55 lens to get the building and the reflection, and all of the shots had this slight astigmatism. A still night, tripod, shutter release. I suppose it could be vibration - or the lens is just too old.
Duality One house - two owners The right-hand half of this house on the Vienna Schottenring has new stucco. The left-hand half has deposits of hydrocarbons from the last decades. P.S. The air is much improved from 40 years ago when I first moved here and most people burned coal for heating.
Crane Lake Ballet A week or so ago I posted a shot of the construction cranes at a building site in Vienna (http://www.jerrybarton.eu/Miscellaneous/DailyPicks/i-5t33FMj). Last Saturday evening they performed a "ballet for construction cranes" called "Crane Lake" ( instead of Swan Lake, which in German is alliterative: Kranensee instead of Schwanensee). Light effects and specially composed music. An estimated 14,000 people came - about three times the expectation. A still shot doesn't do it justice, but here is a shot at sunset, just before the show began.
