The image for Wednesday was actually taken Thursday afternoon, just after I had given back the keys to the old apartment. I strolled one more time through Vienna’s seventh district, my hunting ground for so many years.
Weather was mostly unfriendly this week. We had snow and rain, but on Thursday the sun was shining.
The Song of the Day is “Escalay (‘Waterwheel’)” from the exceptional 1992 Kronos Quartet album “Pieces of Africa”. Hear it on YouTube.
Here’s the image for Tuesday, March 5. That was exactly a week ago. The image was even made that day 
The Song of the Day is “Trouble Child” from Joni Mitchell’s 1974 album “Court and Spark”, the first album of her’s that I ever bought, 15 years later on CD
Hear it on YouTube.
It’s Wednesday night, I’m on the train from Vienna to Carinthia now. I have taken not a single good image today, therefore you get one more of yesterday.
Again the Song of the Day is “The Ballad Of The Fallen” by Charlie Haden, Carla Bley and lots of other good musicians. We last had it in fall 2011. The original is not on YouTube, but I found a video of another band with a very true to the original performance.
Yesterday morning the snowfall began anew. Here’s a view from my room at work. See the lonely bike rider crossing?
The Song of the Day is “Singing For The Lonely” from Robbie Williams’ 2000 album “Sing When You’re Winning”. Hear it on YouTube.
When I arrived in Vienna late Sunday night, the fine weather was over though, and Monday was a gray, dull day with occasional snowfall and not a single ray of sun.
This seventies mini bike caught my attention when I went to the Underground station.
The Song of the Day is “Just Another Poor Boy” from Chris De Burgh’s 1975 album “Spanish Train & Other Stories”. Hear it on YouTube.
I’m on my way down to Carinthia. Weather may be friendlier there, or at least it was. The sunny days seem to be over though and for the weekend it is predicted to be like it was in Vienna all the time, meaning cold and wet with an unpleasant mixture of rain and snow.
Today’s images were both made on the run, on in the morning and one just before I boarded the train to Carinthia. The common motive is the arrow, but how that relates to the title, I really can’t tell 
The Song of the Day is “The Whole Point Of No Return” by The Style Council, Paul Weller’s band in the 1980s. Quite a chameleon the man
The Song is from their 1984 debut album “Cafe Bleu”. Hear it on YouTube.
It’s winter. Not a bitter winter, but nevertheless it’s a bad time to be left out in the cold.
Unfortunately it happens, and it does not only happen to bicycles, it happens to people as well. Of course while bicycles only suffer metaphorically, real people suffer really.
The fact that we have economically hard times only contributes to the problem. Although … it’s not hard for all people. The top, well, let’s say 1%, do well, in fact they do better than ever. It’s only that the pressure has risen on everybody else.
I regularly see elderly people of foreign origins standing in front of our supermarkets, begging, and I hear people bitching that they shouldn’t stand there, that this is only kind of a begging mafia, that everything given to those beggars is taken from them anyway. Others say that those beggars should stay in their homelands and work (“just like we did after the war!!!”) and so on and so forth, but really, think about it, would you like to stand there in the cold?
I work for my money, really, honestly, I do, but if you ask me who pays the higher price for his money, that beggar or I, well, I know for sure it’s not I. Nobody would stand there in the cold just for fun, and working in a regular job is definitely way easier.
Many people suspect that there is an organization behind those beggars, and suspecting so, they have an easy way out, an easy way to suspend compassion.
Don’t do it. Give. It does not hurt. Imagine yourself standing there, having no choice left.
The Song of the Day is “Hard Times” from Eric Clapton’s 1989 album “Journeyman”. Hear it on YouTube.
Really, I’m not a B&W person. Never was. Maybe I am too young for that, maybe I started taking photographs too late in my career, whatever it is, B&W was always an afterthought for me.
I remember my father had a Voigtländer camera, probably with a fixed lens, for some reason I suspect it was some variant of the Vito Automatic, but I’m really not sure. At the age of around 12 I used it for a couple of months until it broke. I don’t remember any guilt, maybe it just broke by itself, maybe only my memory fails me selectively.
Whatever it was, this was a camera that I used with B&W film, and this camera was really, really sharp. I know, not only because there are some photos left, but also because I remember my disappointment with the first color film images that I made with a Minolta point-and-shoot, maybe ten years later.
But still, I never was a B&W person. Never. I always appreciated good B&W work, but it was never my own way of seeing.
The Song of the Day is “I Got Stripes” from Johnny Cash’ “At Folsom Prison” album. Hear it on YouTube.
Even when I’ve set the camera to it, sometimes B&W works, sometimes it doesn’t. Here it didn’t.
Btw, I’ve now set “MySet1″ to my normal settings, i.e. for color shooting, “MySet2″ for HDR bursts and “MySet3″ for “B&W, Orange Filter”.
Normally you switch between the presets by diving down into the menus, but I have reserved one function button (Fn1) for temporarily switching to another preset. While I am in “MySet1″, pressing the button temporarily brings me to “MySet2″ while I hold the button, and from “MySet3″ the same button brings me to “MySet1″.
The effect is, that, regardless in which mode I am, color or B&W, pressing and holding one button brings me to the other. That’s just one of the incredibly handy things that you can do with Olympus’ “MySet” customizations.
The Song of the Day is “Stuck In The Middle” from the 1992 Inner Circle album “Bad to the Bone”. Hear it on YouTube.
Here is one of my two images made yesterday. As I didn’t have time for photography today, you’ll get the other image in the next post
The Song of the Day is “I’m Gonna Hang Around My Sugar” by young Duke Ellington. Hear it as the soundtrack to a strange video of quotes on YouTube. And really, I have no idea who that Robert Coleman is and why his quotes were worth a video