Here’s yesterday’s sundown, orange painted on a blue sky. Art? No, not really, at least not my own 
I’ve omitted the white border and the image links to a full-size version. Feel free to do as I did and use it as a wallpaper.
The Song of the Day is “Orange Colored Sky” from Natalie Cole’s tribute album to her father “Unforgettable: With Love”. Hear a live version on YouTube, and while we’re at it, you may know it but I didn’t, Lady Gaga performed it also and I like it as well.
Today it was pretty clear that the sundown would be spectacular, I just couldn’t decide where to go.
My first impulse was Faaker See, a lake very near Villach, where I know a place that’s ideal for picturing the setting sun. There is still ice on the lake though, and because I wanted reflections in water, I finally chose the bridge over the river Drau/Drava in Rosegg, an old favorite of mine.
The Song of the Day is “Orange Colored Sky” by Michael Bublé. Hear it on YouTube.
Oh and, just because I stumbled upon it, here’s one song more: a fantastic “Blue Moon” by an early Frank Sinatra. SCNR 
The rather mediocre image of the last post was even a heavy crop to get at least a resemblance of a composition. No, Sunday was not my most inspired day. I drove around, made some lake images and soon realized that I was just not in the mood.
In the end this is what I saw from our terrace. I liked the multi-layered sky, took a few images, and this is probably the best of them. Well, a sundown. But then, it just was not my day
“Burning Sky” is from the 1979 Jam album “Setting Sons”. Hooray, unlike all other songs with the word “sky” in the title, I have not used this song before
Hear it on YouTube. Oh and, btw, DxO had a hard time with this image, Photoshop was it in the end.
I made a couple of images this afternoon, some are plagued by dust bunnies (LX5! How I miss ya!) and one of them, this one, is an HDR image. That’s one more trick a DSLR’s has in its sleeves. I gave it a mild treatment based on Photomatix Pro’s Dynamic Range Compression tone mapping method. This is particularly well suited to soft sky gradients. Due to the subject matter we are clearly again in Electric Ladyland.
As always the Song of the Day is “Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)” from Jimi Hendrix’ 1968 album “Electric Ladyland”. Hear it on YouTube.
Each series comes to an end, and this has lasted just as long as it had to. Well, I probably could have added at least one, maybe two, but tomorrow I’ll go to work again. I’m not yet fully well, but there’s some serious trouble at work, I may be able to help, and in the afternoon I take the train down to Carinthia anyway.
Considering the image, I’d probably take out the black thing sticking in from the left, just above the tree, but I can’t. The Photoshop file is on my main computer and that has died on Monday. Some fan speed thing. It doesn’t boot because the case fan connected to the motherboard is too slow. Well, this is one of the best-ventilated cases on the market, but that does not impress my motherboard. I would have fixed it already if I had not been ill. As it is, I’m not inclined to process this image again, thus you’ll have to live with the speck. I may take it out later, and if so, I’ll tell you.
The Song of the Day is “Going Down Slow“. Normally I only link to music that I own, but in this case I stumbled upon this video and I really thought you’d enjoy it as much as I did
Enough is enough, huh? This is my seventh post for today and I have not even been outside, didn’t have the chance to make a single image.
I have to return to Vienna today, and although the rain has stopped, it is already too late to go swimming. Thus I leave you with another image from yesterday. I couldn’t decide, I like both, so here we go.
The Song of the Day is one more time “It’s Oh So Quiet” from Lisa Ekdahl’s 2002 album “Heaven Earth & Beyond”. Hear it on YouTube.
Yesterday afternoon we had a short but heavy thunderstorm here in Carinthia, but it didn’t last long enough to cause major damage. I even went swimming later on, and I made this image, being immersed in our lake, but still near enough to the shore that I could easily stand.
The Song of the Day is “It’s Oh So Quiet” from Lisa Ekdahl’s 2002 album “Heaven Earth & Beyond”. Hear it on YouTube.
Wow, it’s been a pretty long time since my last post! Sorry, I made images, more than I can currently show, but during the first few days I had connectivity problems, and then my server had an upgrade.
I have shelled out around 25$ for a “Faster Server Option”, and indeed the server feels faster now. During the transition I didn’t want to put up new content though, and so another two days were lost.
Add some work for our upcoming relocation in Villach and you see me busy for a week with no apparent output. But as I said, nothing is lost and today I’ll make a quick succession of posts in order to catch up.
These images are from a trip down to Italy, down to the sea. Carinthia had fine weather last week, but of course Italy is always warmer and we enjoyed a welcome continuation of summer.
I probably could have taken any of these images as Image of the Day, but I really like the seagull. It was such a perfect capture, so exactly the right moment, but of course it’s not planned. It just happened, I waited until it almost touched down, I already feared that I had waited too long, but it was even more than what I had hoped for. No merger between bird and building, the shape of the bird fitting right into the gap between the chimneys, and even the light and the sky were cooperating. A lucky shot that made me cheerful
Two images have borders, two have none. The detail from the brakes of a bicycle is right out of the camera and was not processed in any way, the harbor night shot was, but I have used it as wall paper on my laptop, and white borders on wall papers are not such a good idea
The Song of the Day is “Song To A Seagull“, the title song of Joni Mitchell’s 1968 debut album. Hear it on YouTube.
Even worse. Today’s sundown is more than a year old
The Song of the Day is again “Cardboard Cutout Sundown” from Captain Beefheart’s 1982 final album “Ice Cream For Crow”. It’s still available on YouTube.
Just a sundown. Not even a particularly good one, but what can I do, that’s the only thing I have.
The Song of the Day is “Cardboard Cutout Sundown” from Captain Beefheart’s 1982 final album “Ice Cream For Crow”. You may not like it as much as I do, but here’s it on YouTube