This is a “Bassena”. If you’re not from Austria, you will most likely not know the term. It is a public water basin in the ground level corridor of an old house. The form of the handle on the faucet is a pun on the German word “Hahn”, that can mean “rooster” as well as “faucet”.
I took the image yesterday morning, here in my house, before I left for work. Sigma 20/1.8 at f1.8, ISO 1250, 2500K white balance and 1/15s. Boy, that was dark! I had to push the exposure in Photoshop, because the image was slightly underexposed as well. This necessitated the use of Noise Ninja and mild doses of some other tricks, but I guess the result is quite acceptable. In fact I would happily print it in A3 format.
The Song of the Day is “Where Water Flows” from Calexico’s 1998 album “The Black Light“. No need for lyrics, there ain’t any 
Oh, by the way, we had snow yesterday. I may show some in today’s image.
Nov 162007
I like the shapes of this and have had a hummingbird one myself once. It gets so cold here last year that I broke the one that looks like a flower so I keep to the cheaper ones now LOL…as always this is striking and dramatic.