here some more left over crap

military lunch. right side


left side


barracks in hoersching.


franz without hat.

szeller with hat.


random people in linz.


we had to clean every single corner before we were allowed to leave hoersching. franz took their orders pretty seriously.


new barracks. finally in vienna. a message to welcome me ! "koller you whore"


random mother. i always wonder what kids think if they see their mother like that in the public. especialy in europe where noone else is covered.


this is the whole team in vienna. i was lucky enough to be there at the right time when they did a group photo. so i took my camera to make my own.

the new barracks where i'll be till november is the "medical examination station" where every 18y old male austrian being has to go for 1 1/2 days to get checked on physical and psychical health.

my job is to write down diagnoses of the doctor and a few other things..

the lady right in center is my doctor.

nice mix, eh ?


and of course there is a lot of nothing-to-do-time.


everything is a bit more "loose" here in vienna. vienniese so to say.


random atmosphere shot:


funeral of my grandfather.

R.I.P











random, boredom.





lost lady.


lady lost in the worlds of substi and a handsome austrian policeman.


bernhard lost in the world of le-koller fiber prints.


weird guy lost in a book


back light.


recruits on their way home.


recruit on his way to the barracks. shot with my new bessa r2m. only frame that is in focus yet. yay.



bored.


markus. nd8 filter used.


aww



my new camera is bessa r2m. everything is perfect but of course the photos have front focus. it's crap. who would have expected that a new camera would work 100% nowadays, right ?

so i gotta switch back on my M6 without metering.. great.

ps: for anyone who feels like criticising here on my blog entries. just leave it. thanks.

it's me again. still taking pictures from time to time. still no motivation yet. gonna get a new camera on friday, hope to "buy" some motivation with it ;)


the time in hoersching is over. we actually were staying more time in the car driving back and forth than staying in the barracks. almost..

always driving as late as possible, to enjoy as much time as we can at home.


vienna:

drunk night. very drunk.. lost my purse but got it back one week later. lucky me.


old vs. new. old wins of course.


linus had birthday some time ago.


from the hip, from the back, double decker action, rar !


hoersching again:

shooting with the 50/2 a littlebit.





going home.

some by train.


others tried it by car. poor bastard.



others by bus....



vienna again.


st.poelten. a stop in between the road trip.


vienna again.


hoersching again.



linz this time.

this nice fella wanted us to show some "nice" area of linz. he didn't care for traffic lights.



the "nice area" with his buddies.


random girl who "ate" andi later that night.

hello again !


this photo shows the corridor of the new barracks some of us got transfered to a week ago.


but first some photos from the old "home".

the 4th week started with a lot of flying hirsch, which is jagermeister with red bull.. we had a couple, if not a dozen of them.. so we all got pretty boozed.



a bunch of beer too..


combat training started at 9am and ended at 11pm, yay !

i was not allowed to take any pictures anymore.. which was crap, since the only reason why i somehow liked all that shit, was because i could take photos.


guys, you look crap.



as you can probably see on the contrast, i didn't have a working light meter in week 4 and 5.


kornfeld being tired after having lots of vodka the night before.


two recruits looking for the sense of (army) life.


mr. no-sleep but vodka


it was the day before i left this wonderful place. i had the whole locker on my back. i've heard it's about 30kg. i had two other bags for each hand too the next day. yay.

the ChvT (charge of the day) asked me if the photo isn't blurry when i shoot through the mirror. amused me a little.


french guy sleeping


last time enjoying the nightlife of weitra. we were talking about politics and shit because some old freaky lady tried to receive our votes to avoid that austria will disappear soon.. i only say "mars attacks!"...


last morning in the barracks.. 5:45am, first light entering the room.


everyone still asleep, for 15 more minutes.


last breakfast. always wanted a photo of this guy in white.. he's funny.


it was saturday. somehow the barracks tried to represent their equipement and stuff for the public that day. i've been there from 10-12am and left that place.


Ken was our VIP guest.


they had a fantastic collection of austrian folk music. *drool*


these guys were representing the combat training. originally i should have done this that day.. but because of a nice accident, i was allowed to leave the barracks at 12am instead of faking some combat until 6pm.. :D


there was a sorts of carmouflage station for kids. they got covered in paint and then photographed with a compact digicam and then printed via ink jet. kinda fun.



this is the print station.



finally on the way home.
evertime you can sit somewhere, you fall asleep. it's army law.






on monday we got transfered to hörsching, another, much bigger barracks.

actually nothing happens there, except indoctrination from 8am to 8pm... it's rather boring but at least the officiers are funny.


alex and his PSP, it's like me and my M... almost. the lightsource is a small flashlight we use to play poker with at night..



in the morning, we either have sports or clean toilets or stairs.. mostly it's one or two people that clean and the rest is doing nothing.


the rest of the day is indoctrination, indoctrination, indoctrination... which looks like many strange latin words on the beamer... and some funky pinkish sketches of anatomy from time to time.

we're doing some kind of paramedic education.


the only thing you do is trying to avoid to fall asleep or sleep. mostly one half is sleeping and the other half is fighting against their falling eyelids.. and the moment you wake up again the other half fell asleep...

that's the game we play every day.


one of these photos where i explain how the camera is working.. of course i have to demonstrate the shutter too, right ? ;)


one half.


the other half.


at least the barracks look nicer. very oldschool.


people are excited about seeing some of the photos on my portable thingy.


maybe the best exposure i guessed. i was sure that f4.0 1/125 on trix+ND8 must be correct.. and yay it was.


well, i could do these photos over and over again.



so that's it. i wasn't really motivated to shoot without an exposure metering.. and wasn't allowed to take photos anymore.. so it got harder to shoot anyway.

looking for a new camera now.

cheers