You see, I fully recognize this is no way to write a supposedly daily photo blog, but at the moment there is no other way possible for me. I’ll still try to keep it a littly more regular in the future though 
Anyway, I’ve caught up, this is the post for today, featuring an image taken today, about 3.5 minutes after that of the last post.
The Song of the Day is “No Other Way” from Paolo Nutini’s so-far only album, the 2009 release “Sunny Side Up”. Hear it on YouTube.
We had a bleak day with occasional snow here in Carinthia. Definitely nothing worth photographing and not photographing is what I did 
Here’s an old image, more than two years old, one of the first taken with the Panasonic LX5. I was on my way from home to work, a way that I won’t go any more in only a month. From then on I will live in a completely different part of Vienna, far away, less beautiful, less photogenic, but only two minutes away from the future location of my office. I had the choice of moving or spending almost two hours per day commuting. Well, I’m moving
The Song of the Day is “Goin’ Away Baby” from Eric Clapton’s 1994 album “From The Cradle”. Hear it on YouTube.
Maybe this image taken today does not particularly look like HDR, but that’s what it is. Same process as in “2294 – Cold, Cold, Cold“.
The Song of the Day is I Felt The Chill Before The Winter Came” from Elvis Costello’s 2009 album “Secret, Profane And Sugarcane”. Hear it on YouTube.
This is an image that I made on my way to the train today. I didn’t have much time, I saw the glass and the stairs behind, the reflections and the distortions, and in ten seconds I had the image.
Out of the camera I didn’t think much of it, but honestly, there was not much choice, thus I began working on it, and voilà, in the end I really, really like it
Sorry for not being very responsive these days, it’s not arrogance or that I don’t value your comments, much to the contrary, but I still don’t feel too well. I’m cycling through all variants of an influenza, currently the cough is gone and I have a sore throat, but I really hope this will get better soon. Meanwhile it just has to go on
The Song of the Day is “It’s All Going On” from Marc Almond’s 2010 album “Varieté”. Hear it on YouTube.
Another good idea for what to do on a rainy or foggy day is taking images in shopping centers. It does not need to rain though.
It suffices that you are there anyway, for instance because in a sudden burst of inspiration it became obvious to you that a resolution of 1920×1200 is not enough and that TN panels just don’t cut it.
Sure, such inspirations may later lead to inquisitive questioning and long discussions, but … sometimes there’s no way around that
The Song of the Day is “Whirl Away” from Patti Smith’ 1997 album “Peace and Noise”. Hear it on YouTube.
This is the image for Monday. It’s Wednesday night, technically it’s already Thursday, and again I try to catch up.
Actually I am not waiting. I’ve been, but since Monday I own one of these superb Olympus 75/1.8 lenses. These are the first images taken with it.
By now I have already sold quite some Nikon equipment, the 18-200 VR, the 70-300 VR, the 35/1.8, the 50/1.8D, the 85/1.8D, the Tokina 11-16/2.8 and the Sigma 10-20, and instead of saving the money up, I have immediately invested in two lenses, the Olympus 12/2.0 and now the 75/1.8. Both are superb, the 75/1.8 certainly being one of the best lenses I’ve ever had.
You’ve probably read the reviews anyway, most finding no other fault than the not included lens hood, but that’s just standard Olympus policy and no flaw of the lens itself. I don’t mind, I have not bought lens hoods for any of my Olympus lenses, neither the 12/2.0 nor the 45/1.8 nor this one, and so far I never missed them. It just makes the lenses easier to pack.
Oh, by the way, in the last post I’ve hinted at a possible bag problem, and I am glad to say I could avoid it one more time. The Panasonic 14/2.5 is so tiny that I could relegate it to a pocket in the lid of my bag that’s actually meant for storage cards, thus I have freed one compartment, and with some re-shuffling I have managed to put the OM-D and six lenses into my small bag. It’s a total of 2 kg now, still portable but now slowly approaching a border I don’t want to cross.
I plan to buy at least one more lens, namely the upcoming Olympus 17/1.8, a lens that’s reported to be built to the same high standard as the 12/2.0 and the 75/1.8. If I do so, the Panasonic 20/1.7 will be sold, and most likely the 14/2.5 as well. It just does not make sense to carry three primes within such a small range of focal lengths.
Just as in “1293 – I Am Waiting“, the Song of the Day is “I Am Waiting” from the 1966 Rolling Stones album “Aftermath”. Hear it on YouTube.
In reality it’s Thursday night, but here on the blog it’s still Tuesday.
In reality I’ve been working in Carinthia all day, here on the blog we are still in Vienna where I found this guy with his father, all life still waiting for him, still a promise, vague but sweet.
The Song of the Day is “Father And Son” from Cat Stevens’ 1970 album “Tea for the Tillerman”. Hear it on YouTube.
Tomorrow noon I guess I’ll take two or three hours off.
Today I have worked until 5:30 pm and then waited an hour more before I finally got out. The problem is, I’ve expected a package and DHL failed to deliver.
The contents? A small light tent with two spotlights included. I’ll use it to take images of the lenses that I’m going to sell.
When I left home at 6:30, I fully intended to go swimming. I just wanted to head over to the computer store and buy a WiFi repeater first. I did that, I was back to the car as quickly as I had hoped, but it was already too late for swimming. The days are already painfully short. Well, not winter-short short, but short nevertheless.
In the end I headed for a place where I knew the sun would last slightly longer, hastily took some images, and that was it. Thus it will be swimming at noon tomorrow
The Song of the Day is “Just Can’t Last” from Natalie Merchant’s 2001 album “Motherland”. Hear it on YouTube.
Sometimes it’s hard to decide what the Image of the Day shall be. None of these three images is breathtaking, all are more or less OK.
This is a small bookshop that displays used books in baskets out on the street. I intended to take images of the books, when suddenly a man passed by. I had only half of his body in the frame and somehow I liked the idea. Some seconds later I had this image.
The bicycle is in one of the typical poses that never fail to catch my attention. With the OM-D’s articulating screen it is very convenient to take these images from waist level.
And of course finally there is the creamy bokeh of the background flowers. The flowers won, greatly helped by the title
The Song of the Day is “Purple Haze” from the 1986 Kronos Quartet album “Music by Sculthorpe, Sallinen, Glass, Nancarrow, Hendrix”. Hear it on YouTube.
OK, I admit, at first, when I took the image, I didn’t see him. In fact I didn’t even see him while processing the image, but when I finally did, I had to smile.
The Song of the Day is “Supermann” from Marius Müller-Westernhagen’s 1998 album “Radio Maria”. For the majority of you who don’t understand German, I have linked the song title to an automatic translation of the original lyrics.
The original video is kind of a “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” story. See it on YouTube.