Say farewell to Vienna South Train Station

What the Viennese people always liked to do is to watch a moribund dying:
On 12.12.2009 the Vienna South Train Station was opened to the public for the last time. After that day the demolishion starts to make place for the new "Vienna Central Station". Many parts of the infrastructure were already removed as well as the famous "eyes".

Hundreds of photographers (including me) took the "last picture" of this train station which was built in its present form between 1955 and 1961 by architect Heinrich Hrdlicka. With the central building he combined the already existing stations "Vienna south" and "Vienna East", which were built in the 19th century and severely damaged in WWII.

More images by Michael Hierner (derstandard.at).
You can also explore an overview of the area in high resolution as well as see the monthly progress of the construction work.

Swirl: Google Labs Image search

As usual when it comes to beta software, Swirl results can look a little messed up.
Still, it looks more promising to me than Visual Search.

"We're All Gonna Die - 100 meters of existence"

(click image to visit the artist's homepage)

A photograph by Simon Høgsberg.
As a print, this image is 100m by 78cm. As the artist states, the panorama was shot "...in the course of 20 days from the same spot on a railroad bridge on the Warschauer Strasse in Berlin".
Only a few - but definitely some - noticed that they were photographed...

Neues Panoramabuch von Thomas Bredenfeld

Ein Tipp für wissbegierige Panoramafotografen ist das in Deutsch geschriebene "Praxisbuch digitale Panoramafotografie" von Thomas Bredenfeld.
Das Buch ist sowohl bei Amazon als auch bei Galileo Design ab sofort bestellbar!

Leistungsschau des Bundesheeres am Heldenplatz 2009

Anläßlich des Nationalfeiertags gab es wieder eine Ausstellung des Bundesheeres am Heldenplatz in Wien:


Alouette III Innenansicht bei Heeresleistungsschau am Nationalfeiertag 2009 in Vienna


Alouette III bei Heeresleistungsschau am Nationalfeiertag 2009 in Vienna


Eurofighter Typhoon at national day 2009 in Vienna


Black Hawk at military exhibition on national day 2009 in Vienna