As for the title of this image, on first impulse I wanted to call it “147 seconds”, because precisely that much time passed between those two exposures (and it didn’t feel that long), but then, having found my Song of the Day, I couldn’t help but change it.

“Wait A While” is an incredibly beautiful song from Jon Lord’s 1997 album “Pictured Within”. In his own words,

it’s a sad song, but it also has hope, somewhere. It’s a song about loss … and about asking for it not to happen.

For a non-religious person like me, this is as close to a prayer as I can get.

Using only the song but not the title seemed like a frivolous waste to me, thus the change.

There are numerous live performances on YouTube, with different singers. I like best those of Kasia Laska (the quote is from this video) and Sam Browne, who sang it on the album and wrote the lyrics. Incredibly beautiful and touching, but I repeat myself.

Here we are, the same escalator as yesterday, in an image freshly taken today. Normally I don’t do that, but as this image is, if it were the only one, I would certainly have chosen it, even if I had had a bigger number to choose from. Compared to yesterday’s image I probably like it better as well, thus there is no question, this is what you get today

The Song of the Day is somewhat used as well. I already had “One Step Too Far” from the 2001 Faithless album “Outrospective” in a rather uninspired “397 – One Step Too Far?“.

See Faithless featuring Dido in the official video on YouTube.

It always pays to be curious. Today was an icy day, I left work late, and it was so cold that I decided to take the Underground home, even though I had no more than one image so far, that could probably have been usable. One out of two

When I saw the escalator, closed for maintenance, my first impulse was to just take the lift down, but then I decided to have a look.

Well, having a look means taking an image, and in the end I was more than satisfied with the result. Hmm … sometimes it’s good to be not Gordon Freeman. If I were, this probably would have been my only way down

The Song of the Day is “Watch Your Step” from the 1983 Santana album “Havana Moon”. Many people don’t like this album, but I already had it on Vinyl and always loved to dance to “Vereda Tropical”. And besides, how can an album with Flaco Jimenez and Willie Nelson be bad? Impossible

Hear it on YouTube.

Oh the magic of numbers. At the moment each number of a blog post triggers associations, some good, some bad. 1933? Very bad. Hitler became Reichskanzler in Germany, the plight of the Jews began.

The house where I currently live in Vienna (and where this window is) may be slightly older, but probably not much.

The Song of the Day is “The Golden Age” from Beck’s 2002 album “Sea Change”. I’ve used the song before in “1033 – The Golden Age” and “1801 – The Golden Age“. Hear it on YouTube.

It was actually a bright, sunny, cold and beautiful day in Vienna. I didn’t make many images though, this happens to be the best, thus what you get is an image from the Underground.

You see, I’m still using the LX5, at least for the rest of the week. It’s just a pleasure, and when I have to choose between Olympus’ and Panasonic’s ergonomics, I take Panasonic all the time.

The Song of the Day is “Blow Wind Blow” from Tom Waits’ 1987 album “Franks Wild Years”. See a video on YouTube.

Public phone booths are definitely a thing of the past. They still exist, but in an age of omnipresent cell phones, they look like the ultimate anachronism.

Like Isaac Asimov’s robots and Multivacs. Once they were a definite option, now we know that we have moved into a totally different direction.

Btw, I’m still reading and enjoying Asimov. From a pirated (because not available for sale) “Complete Robot” I have moved via “Caves of Steel” to “The Naked Sun”, both novels bought (because available).

The Song of the Day is “I Wish I Were Twins” by Coleman Hawkins. See a video on YouTube.

I don’t know why, I just use the LX5 again and I’m happy with it. Sharpness and resolution are OK, tonality is something you can work on in Photoshop (high contrast snowy landscapes are always a challenge), and when I look at this image, I can’t help but be satisfied – although it’s not from a medium format back and although it has not been taken from an expensive tripod with an even more expensive head. It’s fine anyway

The Song of the Day is “Rocky World” from the 1993 Daniel Lanois album “For The Beauty Of Wynona“. You know, the one with the censored photograph by the great Jan Saudek (if you follow the link, be aware that much of the content is not safe for work). Hear the song on YouTube.

It’s Sunday evening, I have no image for yesterday (well, I have, but I can’t just use any rubbish, can I?), thus I resort to one taken last Monday.

The Song of the Day is “Cristopher Columbus” by Benny Goodman & His Orchestra. Hear it on YouTube.

Well, not my windows actually, just someone else’s that I saw this morning.

The Song of the Day is of course “Cars Hiss By My Window” from the 1971 Doors album “L.A. Woman”.

I already used this song in “1281 – Cars Hiss By My Window“. Hear it on YouTube.

The last time that I used this title was in summer 2010, and that time it was laundry hanging from Italian windows.

This time it’s a bike that I saw yesterday, and even if you don’t like this image, for instance because you think that selective color really got old ages ago, it still touches an interesting question: Does this image infringe upon someone’s copyright? I saw it, I took it, I processed it, but how can I know???

Sick? Oh yes.

The Song of the Day is “Hanging Around“, originally from the 1977 Stranglers album “Rattus Norvegicus”. Hear it on YouTube.