Posts for: Vienna74
Mar 23, 2020 19:53:23 #
Mar 23, 2020 19:49:01 #
I am of English/Danish descent. I lived in Vienna for a year and take tour groups there about every other year.
Mar 22, 2020 18:45:34 #
A few more from our trip to the Oregon Coast.
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Mar 22, 2020 15:19:08 #
We spent a week in Oregon, primarily on the coast. I was raised in Oregon and spent a lot of time on all parts of the coast, so a trip there is always fun, but my family has come to love trips there as well. We had great weather and managed to eat at 3 favorite restaurants before all closed.
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Jan 21, 2020 22:21:17 #
Dec 12, 2019 01:30:26 #
I owned this lens a couple of years ago when still shooting APS-C (a d7200). I absolutely loved the lens. It was the hardest one for me to part with when I bought a d750. I shot some great stuff with it.
Dec 4, 2019 23:28:24 #
I have recently heard of several UPS shipments within the United States that for some reason got routed to Guam and sat for a few days. Presumably soaking in some rays. This happened to a friend in my office and he showed me the online tracking to prove it.
Nov 24, 2019 23:17:26 #
Asterix was wonderful! The German translation was quite good. The English was beyond awful. Terribly boring in English.
Oct 1, 2019 08:55:24 #
A man was walking on a beach in California one day when he spotted something shiny poking out of the sand. He bent down to investigate, dug a little, and pulled out an old vase. He began to clean it off and suddenly a genie appeared.
"Thank you for freeing me! I am prepared to grant you one wish."
The man thought for a minute and then knew exactly what he wanted. "I have always wanted to be able to drive to Hawaii, so what I want is a bridge from California to Hawaii."
"Seriously? Do you have any idea of how difficult that would be? The environmental impact statement alone would be immense, not to mention litigation from the Sierra Club and who knows who else! Isn't there any other wish I could grant you?"
The man was silent as he thought. "I understand. How about this: Sometimes when I come home from work my wife is upset with me. When I ask why she is upset, she says if I loved her I would know. But I don't know! I do love her, but the reason I am asking is because I don't know! The wish I want granted is to understand women!"
The genie frowned and thought that over. "So, were you thinking two lanes or four?"
"Thank you for freeing me! I am prepared to grant you one wish."
The man thought for a minute and then knew exactly what he wanted. "I have always wanted to be able to drive to Hawaii, so what I want is a bridge from California to Hawaii."
"Seriously? Do you have any idea of how difficult that would be? The environmental impact statement alone would be immense, not to mention litigation from the Sierra Club and who knows who else! Isn't there any other wish I could grant you?"
The man was silent as he thought. "I understand. How about this: Sometimes when I come home from work my wife is upset with me. When I ask why she is upset, she says if I loved her I would know. But I don't know! I do love her, but the reason I am asking is because I don't know! The wish I want granted is to understand women!"
The genie frowned and thought that over. "So, were you thinking two lanes or four?"
Sep 25, 2019 09:45:54 #
UTMike wrote:
Very nice work! When I was stationed in Europe in the 60s, the Tyroleans considered themselves a distinct entity extending from southern Germany, through central Austria and in to Italy. Graffitti was prominent declaring that the Tyrol would never be divided into three parts ("Drei geteilt - niemals!")
Yes, today the province of Tirol include Osttirol (East Tirol), which is still in Austria, but not connected physically to the rest of Tirol. The reason it is "disconnected" is the removal of South Tirol (to Italy).
Sep 24, 2019 12:11:45 #
Paul J. Svetlik wrote:
Now, that is a panorama! br Beautiful mountain val... (show quote)
Sorry. I misspoke. I was thinking of the pano I posted after this of the Tirolo Castle. This was 6 frames. The rest of the info is the same.
Sep 24, 2019 12:10:10 #
Paul J. Svetlik wrote:
Now, that is a panorama! br Beautiful mountain val... (show quote)
Lets see...this was 12 frames, hand-held, portrait orientation. I shot them with a D750 and 50mm 1.8. (I use my 50 more than my 24-120 zoom because it does not distort the way a wide angle does and because I know I can stitch.) I stitched this in LR, although I often use PS for stitching. There are some things about PS, such as boundary warping that I sometimes want to use.
By the way, this area gets about 270 days of sunshine annually.
Sep 24, 2019 10:59:56 #
One of my main purposes in taking my group to the South Tirol of Italy was to visit Tirolo Castle. The pano here shows the castle. The village of Tirolo is to the right and the city of Merano is out of the frame to the left.
This castle is the source of the name of the Austrian province of Tirol. The Counts of Tirol moved from here to Innsbruck in 1429 to better control the trade route across the Inn River, making Innsbruck the capital of all of Tirol. (The normal English spelling is Tyrol, but to me that is just weird.)
The second photo is simply of the castle itself. The hillsides there are covered with apple orchards and a few vineyards. The freshly-pressed apple juice sold there is the best I have ever had.
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This castle is the source of the name of the Austrian province of Tirol. The Counts of Tirol moved from here to Innsbruck in 1429 to better control the trade route across the Inn River, making Innsbruck the capital of all of Tirol. (The normal English spelling is Tyrol, but to me that is just weird.)
The second photo is simply of the castle itself. The hillsides there are covered with apple orchards and a few vineyards. The freshly-pressed apple juice sold there is the best I have ever had.
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Sep 24, 2019 10:42:12 #
In one of the strangest episodes of WWI, Britain and France offered a bribe to Italy not to join the Germany/Austria side of the war. The bribe? The southern part of the Austrian province of Tirol, south of the Alps, called the Südtirol. The Austrians living there suddenly found themselves part of Italy and the civil unrest lasted until the 1960s. However the compromises secured with the Italian government allowed this area to retain its heritage and language, as well as greater fiscal autonomy. Culturally, this part of Italy remains Austrian. In fact, Austria did not release its claims over this area until 1992.
After crossing over the summit of the Timmelsjoch Pass, we began the long and spectacular descent. This pano is one of my favorite views from the road. That road is visible in the upper left of the frame.
Note also the beautiful little village on the right with the bridge connecting it to the other side of the valley.
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After crossing over the summit of the Timmelsjoch Pass, we began the long and spectacular descent. This pano is one of my favorite views from the road. That road is visible in the upper left of the frame.
Note also the beautiful little village on the right with the bridge connecting it to the other side of the valley.
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Sep 23, 2019 21:13:49 #
I took a group of 14 to Austria (and a little bit into Italy and Germany) for a couple of weeks this month. We drove down the Ötztal on the way to the pass into Italy and stopped to get this view above Sölden. This was 7 frames stitched in LR.
We had come from Innsbruck, where two days prior it had rained hard in the morning, later revealing snow on the mountains. It made for a beautiful drive down this valley.
If the name of the valley rings a bell, it was just south of here (barely into Italy) that the mummified man was found by hikers in 1991 and later nicknamed Ötzi. From 2011 to 2018, Sölden was the training base for the U.S. Men's Ski Team.
From here we drove south over the Timmelsjoch Pass into Italy. The Italian side of the pass is one of the most beautiful drives I know of, but I haven't made it to those photos in my post work yet.
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We had come from Innsbruck, where two days prior it had rained hard in the morning, later revealing snow on the mountains. It made for a beautiful drive down this valley.
If the name of the valley rings a bell, it was just south of here (barely into Italy) that the mummified man was found by hikers in 1991 and later nicknamed Ötzi. From 2011 to 2018, Sölden was the training base for the U.S. Men's Ski Team.
From here we drove south over the Timmelsjoch Pass into Italy. The Italian side of the pass is one of the most beautiful drives I know of, but I haven't made it to those photos in my post work yet.
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