Dilettante Photography: Retrospective

With the best wishes for a Happy New Year and many thanks for all the kind feedback during the last year ... The picture is from recent Christmas in Vienna at the Karlsplatz .

Cashier's Hall, Postsparkassen-Amtsgebäude, Vienna, Austria. #contest #lowangle #architecturephotography #architecture #austrianarchitects #austrianphotographers

Fenced ... #BokehTuesday *** curated by Bob Baxley #DOFMonday For DOFMonday by Mara Acoma Mark Hall Alan Gurling Nigel Smith #AllThingsMonochrome For All Things Monochrome by Charles Lupica Enrique Pelaez Brian Cox Bill Wood #hqspmonochrome

Headlamp of a 1918 Cadillac Typ 57 Lancaulet V8 . (see my previous post) #Mirrormonday For Mirrors and Reflections by Gemma Costa Isabella Francesca Abigail Shores #DOFMonday For DOFMonday by Mara Acoma Mark Hall Alan Gurling Nigel Smith

Hmmm ... one of the first architecture/cityscape images with the new 8-15 fisheye ... #hqsparchitecture #hqspurbanstreetphotos #cityscape #hqsphdr #fisheye #urbanphotography

Just another impression from the World Bodypainting Festival 2015 ... artist concentrated on the essential details ... and the photographer silently at the back holds on the breath to not disturb! #derriere   #behind   #contes

Gear Train

Evening dinner on a warm summer evening in the streets of Vienna (Mölkerbastei) #vienna #austria #urbanphotography #urban #streetphotography #monochrome #monochromeworld #monochromephotography #monochromemonday #hqspurbanstreetphotos

Crysal clear - Iguazú Falls detail. #water #allthingswater

At the fish market in the Amazonas métropole Manaus , Brazil. #civitas #monochromephotography #monochromemonday #travelphotography #traveltips #marketsoftheworld

Hoar Frost #frozen   #winter   #frost   #hoar   #winterphotography

Sharpening Thread

Frosty enlightment ... For Frost Friday

Shoemaker Shop , Naglergasse, #Vienna #Austria For Sepia Saturday #sepiasaturday #sepiaphotography #monochromeworld #monochromephotography

#wordlessonwednesday #wordlesswednesday #wordless

Summer is almost over. Time to select the right tea for cold and wet autumnal evenings ...

Tree branch morphing to a giant inchworm at the magic garden of Laxenburg Castle

Barred windows, Staatsarchiv des Bundeskanzleramtes, Wien

Feel the past - It was just a mousy old sandbox at an abandoned railway station. But it's quite enouth to come up with pictures of puffing steam engines and squealing wagon rails ...

Thanks for the invitation to this interesting community. Here's my initial contribution ...