in 1949/1950, the creation of lake resia reservoir (de: Reschensee) resulted in the flooding/submersion of several villages. while most of the buildings were demolished, the old roman bell tower was left intact (for reasons of monument conservation), and is now the only reminder of the lost villages and forjudged residents.
lake resia is sometimes referred to as “atlantis of the alps”.
when we had seen a little more than a glimpse of vienna, we drove west through a region called wachau (one of austria’s wine regions), and on to its landmark: stift melk, or melk abbey [G].
it was there, that my enthusiasm for creating panorama-images sort-of reached a highlight – which is why you’ll find lots of architectural panoramas in this album.
after the tour through the abbey, i introduced larry to fleischkas1 (cindy staid at a safe distance ;) ), and we headed on to linz, before driving to our accommodation for the night, at fuschl am see [G].
[view photos: wachau and melk abbey]
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during a sight-seeing-tour through austria last year, i took some extra pictures of various sights for panorama-stitching. there’s a powerful panorama photo stitcher called hugin, that makes things very easy – and it’s open-source!
here’s an exapmle of what hugin can do:
i took a set of 11 pictures (not using a tripod!) to get a complete view of the collegiate church at stift melk (melk abbey), austria.
importing them into hugin, all i had to do was specify an estimation of the horizontal field of view (it’s automatically recognized from newer cameras), and hugin started computing away. [more...]
browsing through the photos from vienna, i found two very similar pictures of the church of st. charles in vienna – one taken in daylight, the other one 2.5 hours later, after sunset.
here’s a 5-step gradual blend:
as mentioned before, cindy and larry byers visited austria in late september.
we met at a hotel just outside of vienna, austria.
cindy’s gps navigation device turned out not to work in austria (contrary to what customer support had told her), and due to the combination of inner city traffic, roadsigns in a foreign language etc. they got lost. i’m pretty sure i would instantly get lost in that city without gps.
i ended up guiding them to our meeting point using my laptop, a wireless internet card and google maps.
what did people do before there was the internet, or google?
update: larry reminded me to mention the final instruction i gave them before they arrived at the hotel: still on the phone, i went out on the street, and just before they came around the corner, i mentioned “…and look out for that crazy person that’s standing in the middle of the street”. they drove very carefully. ;-)
here’s part 1 of the more detailled photographic documentation, covering bits of the sightseeing in vienna.
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i started to “collect letters” during my trip to namibia & south africa in september 2007.
once i had sensitized myself to single characters, they seemed to stand out pretty much everywhere, and during the last 1.5 years, i was able to capture some beautiful letters, numbers and signs “in the wild”1.
all of them are available in resolutions between 5 and 10 megapixel, which makes them perfect for “writing” something on a wall with poster-size prints, like this:
here’s a bunch of my favourites:
[view photos: a letter from abroad]
