Category: Niederösterreich

  • Back to analogue – Part 6: on tour with the Contax IIIa

    Back to analogue – Part 6: on tour with the Contax IIIa

    This was my most “should I really?” purchase when I got the “back to film” bug: A Contax IIIa with a Zeiss Sonnar 1:1.5 50mm lens and leather case, all in near pristine condition. I had spotted it on Ebay after buying “Das Contax Buch”, a really old and really wonderful book, from which incidentally…

  • A hymn to the earth in Baden

    A hymn to the earth in Baden

    For the second year now, the city of Baden near Vienna is hosting the photo festival La Gacilly-Baden, and all over downtown you can feast your eyes on outstanding photo-art.  Huge photographs by acclaimed photographers from around the world grace building walls, line walking paths and frame baroque palaces.  If the charms of Baden alone…