Nightfall in a town, a ball of chrome, some lights. This is one more image with the 50/1.2. There may be something sharp in this image, but at the nearest focus distance and at f1.2 it can’t be that much 
The Song of the Day is an unusual version of “The Way You Look Tonight“. Kevin Rowland and Dexy’s Midnight Runners on their third and last album “Don’t Stand Me Down”. You may like it or not, I love everything they did. This is a bonus track on a re-issue of the album, thus you have to look carefully. The one that I link to has it, and so has YouTube.
It’s Friday, I’m on the train to Carinthia and I am really tired from a stressful day. This is an image that I took in the morning. It was raining, you see my umbrella.
The Song of the Day is “Stop! The Red Light’s On” by Gene Krupa and Anita O’Day. I absolutely love that woman
Don’t forget to hear it on YouTube!
That’s the last post for today, an image that I took this morning. It is not that I generally think the room with the garbage containers is that photogenic, but today it appealed to me
The Song of the Day is “The Part You Throw Away“, one more song from Tom Waits’ incredible 2004 album “Blood Money”, the counterpart to the equally brilliant “Alice”. Hear it on YouTube.
Oops! Wrong timestamps. We have daylight saving time again, but my Nikon D300 does not switch automatically. When you look at the URL of the image, it says 153032, but in fact it was 4:30 pm when I left work. Happens to me twice a year, and actually it’s a scandal that those highly capable computers can’t do something so simple as adding or subtracting an hour twice a year. How hard can that be?
Other than that, I just spent obscene amounts of time weighing options for my software project. But that would really belong over there
The Song of the Day is “Mixed-Up Confusion“, Dylan’s first single, if it’s true what I just read. Hear it on YouTube.
This is the first image of yesterday afternoon. It was a bright, sunny day and we drove around in Carinthia. The challenge: find streets you have never driven before. Sometimes I am glad we that don’t have to go to another continent to find the unknown. Ten kilometers can be more than enough. You just have to keep your eyes open
The Song of the Day is “Shine On Brightly” from the 1968 Procol Harum album of the same name.
I didn’t find the album as digital download on Amazon, but what I found to my surprise is, that there are some recent live albums. One of them, “Live At The Union Chapel”, has the song and that’s what I’ve linked to. And then of course there’s always YouTube
First day out of the cage, and the day showed no mercy. Yes, it was sunny in between, that was while I sat at work in front of the computer
Anyway. This image is of one short moment in the morning, when I saw the reflection of a milky sun in a window. I tried my best, even shot a bracketed sequence, combined the exposures in Photomatix Pro, but really, I would have despaired without Photoshop. Two hours and many layers later I am not pleased with the image, but not disgusted either. I guess it’s OK, but then …
I’d probably have liked a dog in the foreground to the right, on a major diagonal, opposed to the light patch of the reflection, although, even if I had had a dog in the frame, it would have probably been the wrong pose and certainly a problem with the bracketed exposures. Well, this is an image where I woudl even copy a dog in, but alas, my dog library is rather scarcely populated 
The Song of the Day is “Shine On” from James Blunt’s 2007 album “All The Lost Souls”. See a live version on YouTube.
Sorry, it took me ages again, but here it is, the image for Wednesday. I found this on the outside wall of a not-so-posh Indian restaurant in Vienna.
As to the Song of the Day, I can offer you “In India” from Carla Bley’s 1974 second collaboration with Paul Haines, “Tropic Appetites”. Seemingly I am fortunate to own the CD, because at the Amazon marketplace it is sold at $183 new and from $126 used. Amazon has it as MP3 downloads as well though, for just the usual price. Economy never stops to amaze me
Hear it on YouTube.
Today I was tired. I had had some technical problems and had hunted for explanations all day, and although I had nothing original, I had little hope for inspiration on my way home. One should never give up though. In a way it is routine. Do it as long as I do, and you do it almost automatically. It does not need much consciousness.
I fooled around, switched ISO automatic off, held the camera firmly to a wall or a shop window, this way exposed for about a second, looked what I got, adjusted, repeated. I must have stood there for minutes, concentrated, experimenting, and suddenly all the day’s troubles were past. I was whole again.
The Song of the Day is “Night Life” from the 2008 album “Two Men With The Blues” by Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis. Fine album, we had it a few times, but not this song so far. Hear it on YouTube.
It’s more or less the same park, it’s the same kind of lantern, it’s only near now.
Why I took the image? Hmm … in a way I like the lace of the tree in the background. Other than that, it’s the usual old game: take some simple forms and arrange them in the frame. Here I think the angle and the asymmetry work together and build up the tension that makes the image. At least for me that is
If you’ve got some time to burn, why not read an article by Ken Rockwell? The interesting part is that bit about punchlines and double punchlines. Not new, but always good to remember.
The Song of the Day is “Yesterday Is Here” from Tom Waits’ 1987 landmark album “Frank’s Wild Years”. Hear it on YouTube, and while you’re there, you should probably hear Cat Power’s cover version as well
It is 6pm, and it has been deep night since more than an hour ago. Light is a precious thing these days. For longer than a month it will get worse before it gets better again.
Usable images were a little sparse today. This one is from my way to the train, just before I entered the Underground. I caught some last, intense light on the top of Vienna’s Justitzpalast, the Palace of Justice.
The Song of the Day is “Precious Things” from Tori Amos’ 1992 album “Little Earthquakes”. See her perform live on YouTube.
