*Encased*
Fuji x100f
Having taken a photo from the inside of an open courtyard in Vienna (Skywards), I did the same a few days later in Lyon. What I like about this one is that the angles are all a little skewed. It feels less geometric and a little more haphazard.
*Stairwell Contrast*
Fuji x100f
I spent a day in Lyon back in July and walked around the old city despite the brutal heat. What I loved there were these narrow winding passages (called Traboules) that connect the streets with encased courtyards. As we were exploring one of these I saw this little staircase on the side. I loved the way the light hit the top of the stairs…
*Devotional Light*
XPAN + Kodak Ektar 100
Inside St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna was a candle board. I decided to try and shoot a decent shot with 100 ISO film. Three attempts, and the last one came out not bad. It’s really tricky shooting in such low light at the best of times (the XPAN only opens at f/4) so I’m really happy it worked.
*Austrian Press*
XPAN + Kodak Ektar 100
At the very end of my half-day stroll in Vienna, I had only a few shots left in my Ektar roll, and I tried to use them, but I couldn’t. Still, I went for some pure street shots as opposed to the architectural stuff I had tried before. This was one of these shots.
*Skywards*
Fuji x100f
I’m not sure there’s anything typically Viennese in this vertical view of a building’s inside court. But I really liked the perspective it offered and the geometry of the courtyard itself, the windows and the way the light hits them.
*Two Humans, Two Golems*
XPAN + Kodak Ektar 100
I don’t know if these two figures were supposed to represent golems (this was in Vienna after all, not in Prague), but they caught my eye, and when later, passing in front of them again, I saw this man and his son (I’m assuming) on their phones in the noon light, I thought « I have my shot ».
*Gloria in Excelsis Deo*
Fuji x100f
As I think I have said before, I’m not a believer in any faith, but I am fascinated with religion as a social construct and as a photographic subject. One of the things that always (in my mind) represents a tension is the amount of effort and money that has gone (historically) into representing the glory of god. In Western Europe this is mostly true of Catholic churches, but of course it applies equally in other parts of the world and to other religions. Still, as a photographer it’s hard to deny that these displays make for good subjects!
*The Girl with the Goose*
XPAN + Kodak Ektar 100
Walking down one of Vienna’s main commercial arteries I stumbled upon this fountain with a statue on top, called « Gänsemädchenbrunnen », litterally the fountain of the girl with the goose (I think). I tried several different approached to capture both the statue and the perspective behind, and the width of the XPAN is what finally got me there. I wish the building at the back on the right hadn’t been wrapped, but what are you gonna do?
*The House of Upper Austria*
fuji x100f
At first when I walked past this door, I was attracted by the caryatids. Then the name struck me OÖ Haus, that’s a bit weird ? By the time I put my camera up, this stripy shirted guy walked past. I knew he wasn’t French, no baguette nor beret. Still, a fun shot. Oh and I just googled OÖ and apparently it’s the acronym for Upper Austria.
*Glittering Naïads*
Fuji x100f
As I was walking around the State Opera house in Vienna, I saw this wonderfully backlit fountain, but I struggled to find the right way to shoot it. I wanted the water to glitter in the way I saw it, but that meant the bottom of the fountain deep in the shadows. And then I thought that that might exactly be the right of dramatic exposure that would work. I’ll let you be the judge !
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