That’s gonna be a short one, promised

The image is one more from yesterday morning. Actually, yesterday’s two images and today’s one were taken in sequence.

Hmm … why this image? Don’t ask me. It somehow appeals to me. Maybe it tells a story. Maybe not. You decide

The Song of the Day is “Don’t Ask Me Why” from the 1989 Eurythmics album “We Too Are One”. YouTube has the video.

Photography has always been expected to say something about reality.

So, you want reality? I give you some reality. That’s how it looked here today. All day. Really

The Song of the Day is “Real Life Hits” from the 1981 Carla Bley album “Live!”. See a video on YouTube.

Thursday. We had snow, for a change. This image was taken in Josefstädter Straße, I was in a rush and seemingly everything else as well

I expect to put up one more post today, in the afternoon, when I’m on the train.

It’s interesting, by the way. This is post #84 made with the Tamron 17-50/2.8 VC. Quite some proof that this lens works for me

The Song of the Day is “Winter Was Hard”, an Aulis Sallinen composition from the Kronos Quartet’s 1990 album of the same name. Take it as an acoustic counterpoint to the sense of speed in the image and hear it on YouTube.

We had snow this morning, and when I arrived at work, camera in hand as always, someone in the elevator remarked, that it must have been terrible weather for photographing.

“No, not at all”, I said, “Snow is wonderful. Everything looks different!”

The Song of the Day is “It’s Magic“. I have two versions, one by Doris Day and one by Dinah Washington. Dinah wins

Hear it on YouTube.

That’s the last update for today, two images that were actually taken this morning.

It’s some details, the backlight of a car and some waste, standing in front of a house entrance, waiting to be taken away. It’s the same kind of boxes that we had a long, long time ago in “47 – Time of Waste“. Please see there for the story of why we use those funny boxes

The Song of the Day is “Take The Box” from Amy Winehouse’s 2007 album “Frank”. That girl may have a drug problem, but, oh boy, she sure can sing! Hear it on YouTube.

One more round, one more image posted this Friday afternoon, and one more round of snowfall we had on Thursday.

Actually I don’t mind. It’s colder now, not really uncomfortably cold (well, depends on who you ask), and that may give the snow a chance to last a few days. Of course this habit of using road salt guarantees slush even when it’s substantially below freezing, but at least they only do it on the sidewalks.

The Song of the Day is “One More Round” from Bette Midler’s 1990 album “Some People’s Lives”. Hear it in a video on Dailymotion. Typical for its time, music that maybe didn’t age all that well, but I like it anyway. Ever have

Here’s another series of updates, posted while I’m on the train. It’s Friday by now, this is an image from Wednesday. Not my best image, but as I had been working for 11 hours, there was not much to choose from

The Song of the Day is “This City Never Sleeps” from the 1983 Eurythmics album “Sweet Dreams”. Hear it on YouTube.

Well, some days it’s less, some days it’s more. Today it’s more

Actually these are images of yesterday, all taken in the morning while I went to work. These are not even all images, I could have gone on, but I just had to stop. This is supposed to be a daily blog after all, and I am already a day behind.

The lone balcony is here not for its qualities as an image, no, it’s here, because it fascinates me. It’s kind of a functionless architecture, an architecture that was normal a hundred years ago: you know, these balconies that were pretty useless, much too narrow, more decoration than anything else. In the meantime we have learned to appreciate balconies as an extension to our apartments.

Normal balconies are big enough for at least a table and two chairs, and then there must still be enough space to walk by. Not so here. A lone yellow chair, that’s it. And then it’s a north side too. I’m pretty sure though, the landlord charges a premium for it anyway.

The first two bicycle pictures are really the same bike, one time lit by the headlights of a car, thus the different colors …

… time passes …

… Oh dear! I must have been tired. It’s morning now and I have not even looked at yesterday’s images. Not much time to chatter now, but that may be a good thing anyway

The mannequin of the Image of the Day is in the window of some shop, I believe a hairdresser. I had to remove the lens hood and press the lens flat to the window, without any chance to compose. There was no other way to get rid of the reflections, especially as the insode was much darker than the outside. It is a relatively tight crop, but I still like it.

And that leaves the last image. “The Hunter Just Returned“.

The Song of the Day is “Too Much Of Anything” from the 1971 album “Who’s Next” by The Who. Hear it on YouTube.

This morning was dark and gloomy. That’s when I made the image of the car. It’s in one of my favorite shops, a small pawnshop in Josefstädter Straße.

Almost every morning I walk by, look into the window and see something that I cold photograph. Most of the time I don’t. It’s near work, when I am there, it’s already late, and normally I have several pictures at that time. This is a shop for desperate moments.

Today I took the image anyway. The car reminded me of Ted’s car miniatures, and somehow I simply had to take it

After this bad start, the day became pretty beautiful. By noon it was sunny, that lasted a whole short afternoon, and when I finally left work shortly after 6pm, it was pitch black night. Oh well, winter can be fine, but not when you have to work during all the light hours.

For the Image of the Day I did not care much about noise. This is ISO 1400 and one could say I have heavily pushed this image. Noise is still pretty acceptable. Actually I really like what I ended up with.

The Song of the Day is “In The Still Of The Night” by the Neville Brothers, to be heard on the 1990 album “Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter”, one real classic of an album. Hear it on YouTube.

This morning I made some images that could probably have been usable, but then, in the afternoon, on my way back home, in the middle of a slight drizzle, I got pleasantly surprised by an enormous sunset.

It didn’t last longer than maybe 5 minutes, and all the while I made image after image, constantly hampered by the traffic. Finally I decided on this one, embracing the traffic instead of trying to avoid it.

Btw, you may have found my blog to be unreachable today and part of yesterday, and that’s because it was every once in a while. JustHost, my hosting company, had some trouble with my machine. It must have affected quite a lot of people, at least that’s what my stats say. I’m sorry for that, I hope it’s a singular event. If not, well, I’m really not inclined to pay more for something that I’ve bought anyway and that should simply work. But let’s see how it goes on.

It’s far from being the fourth of July, but the Song of the Day still is “Night Ride Home” from Joni Mitchell’s 1991 album of the same name. Great album, great song, hear it on YouTube.