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Summer in Vienna

I am in Vienna now for a couple of days already. The heat is unbearable. It was 37.5 degrees Celsius (99.5 degrees Fahrenheit) today! The heat in Vienna is different to the heat in New York. The humidity in New York is even worse, not comparable to Vienna. Therefore you've got air conditioning (which I love) everywhere in New York City. Trains, buses, stores, the office and the apartment in which I live are air conditioned... In my apartment in Vienna there is only a small fan twirling the hot air around. I am sitting in front of the computer, only wearing my boxershorts and the sweat is still flowing down in streams... Man I can't stand the heat!

I still enjoy being at home again. It's great to be with my girlfriend Karin again and it's fun to be with her 14 years old son Fabian. Karin, Fabian and me drove to a small city about an hour drive away from Vienna named Tulln. We went to a garden of some relatives of Karin to jump into a small swimming pool hoping to cool down a little bit. It helped temporarily.
And I want to see my mother, my grandparents and my best friend Christoph in the next days.

Other then that I am going to speak frankly: I haven't been very inspired to photograph in Vienna lately. It's just that my thoughts about stories I want to work on are still in New York. I guess it's a lot more difficult to photograph in a city which you know for 25 years. But it's also a challenge to do so. I just need to focus a little more on that, I want to put some sort of a shooting-plan together for my time in Vienna.

In the meantime let me give you the link to a very interesting BBC article called "Developing world". Jon Levy, the editor and founder of foto8.com asks if the use of digital cameras means that we are becoming better photographers.

Posted by Martin Fuchs on July 28, 2005 06:16 PM