Photo Shoot

Upper Belvedere Palace
Steps leading up to the South façade
Photographed
January 19, 2009

Lunch Hour in Leopoldstadt

3/4 Takt Café Restaurant
Praterstrasse
Vienna. Where else?

Harley-Davidson Parking
"spezerei"
Wine Deli Bar
Karmeliterplatz

Recycle What?
Waste paper containers and bill board girl
Rotensterngasse

A Romy Schneider Portrait
Retrospective at the Film Archiv Austria
Grosse Pfarrgasse

Palais Augarten
Home of the Vienna Boys' Choir and the
Viennese Porcelain Manufactury
Obere Augartenstrasse

A Viennese Melange
Served with a slice of "Besoffener Kapuziner"
("Drunken Capuchin Monk")
Grosse Pfarrgasse

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Photographed and first published
Friday, September 26
in the Second District
(Leopoldstadt)

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Viennese Moments

Polarstern
Polar Star Moment? In Vienna?
Where else?

Polar Star Rose
Gracing Vienna's Rose Garden
Since 1982!

La Grappa
Cappuccino
Aufhofstrasse

Simply Because.
I love it.
Shell and small window.
Franciscan Church
Weihburggasse

The Salts of Life
Zum Schwarzen Kameel
The Night Kitchen

Artist's Atelier
Door sign in a Viennese
Pawlatschen Courtyard

Weine
Wine
Where?
I forgot.
Too much wine.

Yesterday's News
Newspapers bundled and tied
Ready for Recycling
Café Kandinsky

Le Muffin
Café Le Bol
Neuer Markt

Café Diglas
A smile worth a thousand words
Wollzeile

Hellmann Salon
Menue
Heiligenkreuzer Hof

Frisch gestrichen
Wet paint!

Foto
Reflection behind letters
Letters with reflection?
Pause. Reflect.
Push the shutter-release button.

First published
by Merisi
in September 2008

Oh yes,
go ahead,
click! :-)

Vienna Coffee Hour

Demel
K. & K. Hofzuckerbäckerei
Royal and Imperial Confectioners
Kohlmarkt 14
1010 Vienna

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Clicking on the images
will lead you to more
Viennese adventures!

Thank You For the Tip

Carnival in Venice
Shrove Tuesday
Mardi Gras
Martedì Grasso

After the photo sessions
at dawn,
I walked towards the
Ponte dell'Accademia
when I spotted this
vacant chair
with an XXXL hat.

I waited a little while,
and when no one showed up,
I stole this image.

I did not tip
the hat!

Cappuccinos and Marrons Glacés For All

... "buzzing around the house on espresso" ...
From "Morning ", a poem by Billy Collins
(Read it at
The Poetry Foundation's

website, here).

Photographed
February 2007

Carnevale di Venezia

First published
February 2007

Cappuccino for David Revisited

Early in the morning when

The mist rises
From the Tuscan hills,
And the sun's almost ready
To kiss the roofs
Of Florence,

Davide asks
The Mighty Lion
To please stand guard.
He then quickly

steps down
From his pedestal

To fetch himself
A cappuccino
At Dolce e Dolcezze.

The first two pictures
were taken in the hills of Fiesole,
Michaelangelo's David stood still at Piazza Della Signoria
(while Donatello's Perseo,
well, shrugged - we all know what he was up to, don't we?),
and the cappuccino
was savoured and photographed
at Dolce e Dolcezza.



Photographed
and first published
in February 2008

Sometimes, I Dream in Italian

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Dreams of Italy
Photographed in Florence
and the vineyards and olive groves
of the Chianti Hills
October 2008


Would you like
to dream some more?
Each of these images
will take you
on Italian travels,
simply click on them!
Bon voyage! :-)