12-1-27

There are no public toilets in Vienna. No legitimate ones anyway. The restaurants coffee shops you might normally turn to for relief charge 50cents to use. The result is every doorway becomes a place to relieve yourself in the wee hours of the night. I laughed out loud a bit when I saw someone had painted a urinal in the doorway of this building. Wonderful.

12-1-26

The home of works by Klimt, Hoffman, and more.

12-1-25

Flak tower.

12-1-24

Delightful treasures hidden at the ends of various passageways.

12-1-23

Heaven...

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Johann and Bina. Gracious hosts.

12-1-20

The view out of the apartment each morning. I lost an hour to this view. Perhaps more.

12-1-19

The executive lounge at Heathrow Airport in London has the most amazing light fixtures.

12-1-18

Going to Vienna.

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12-1-16

More snow. Seems like there's going to be a little bit of winter this winter.

12-1-15

Got cold. Poor bunny.

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12-1-12

"Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz." Miss Joplin, your words are magical.

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12-1-5

Two photos. Perhaps making up for yesterday. Two different cameras. Two different times of day. The first is from a new point and shoot that arrived today, a Canon S100. I had an S90. It was the best point and shoot camera I've ever had but the S100 has a wider wide angle, a longer zoom, better low light performance, and shoots HD video. The second picture was taken by a FujiFilm X100 that I got because as much as I liked the S90 photos they weren't as good as my big camera and the X100 promised to deliver excellent photos without the bulk of a DSLR.

So what have I learned from all this? Not much.

12-1-4

I didn't think I had missed any days this year, never mind the fourth day of the year, but I can't find a photo with today's date on it. Not good form, to say the least, but like when you get a new car, the first scratch is the hardest one to deal with but once it's out of the way the rest of them are easier to accept. So it looks like 2012 has a scratch in it. Oh well.

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12-1-2

Two days into 2012. Haven't missed a day yet...

12-1-1

First picture of the year. Another 2 seconds and I would have missed it. The macro lens has made me lazy thinking I just need to find some odd bobble floating around my life and I can just take a close up of it and get some sort of decent photo. I would need better lights, or at least not crap lights, for that to be the case. I don't things are going to change any time soon.

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Last picture of the year.

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11-12-28

More macro. This could become habit forming.

11-12-27

Leica M3, as seen through a Nikkor 60mm f2.8 Micro. Fun new lens.

11-12-26

Vancouver Aquarium. Long story. Not going to tell it.

11-12-25

Merry Christmas Sophie.

11-12-24

It's become a bit of a tradition to drink wine and watch some completely non-Christmas-ie movie on Christmas Eve. Tonight it was a bottle of Toscano and the classic Steve McQueen's The Hunter and then Swingers. Not a bad way to spend an evening.

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The man. The legend. Bubi.

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Pigeon Park.

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11-12-18

One Last Night at 1067 on Granville Street before being shut down later this month. It's been there for 14 years run by a collective of musicians. It's depressing. This city is killing me slowly.

11-12-17

Old man.

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11-12-11

Christmas tree night. Is it wrong to design critique a five year old for clumping decorations?

11-12-10

11-12-9

Winter.

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Secret worlds.

11-12-5

Records. I managed a good three records from front to back, or side to side as it were. It's probably the first time I've done that in 3 years. Some wine. A new couch. A stereo that needed an extensive dusting off before being serviceable. It was a good place to be for the night. Mostly.