me again.

had to sleep in the barracks again for some days because of being late a few hours one day.. haha, too funny.

so i took some photos of the two who had night shift that day.


watching tv.. as always. boring stuff.


random photo on the street.. damn i was guessing exposure here. you know. no metering in the leica.. trix@2000 loaded.

two wannabe-students ;P




they start early nowadays


classic. didn't have much time cause a crowd of people was about to pass me from behind.



been to some partys lately.. this was pretty cool. a watermelone filled with 2,5 lt. vodka.. :D

evil thingy.

sophia was trying to cut it in half.

finally, she won !

more b/w pics.








the "pit stop"









my father doing coffe.



lady with a bag from the austrian's conservative party. "austria successful".


two random cocks.



katja and the babies.


where's waldo ?



hahah.. two random old ladies shooting jesus in st.stephans dome.


this weekend we had great weather. going through vienna with nina.


having a lunch, made by donald, the famous cook.


that's why they call him the big mac.


we both took a piss in an asian restaurant. kinda funny, i was hoping not to get noticed by the waitress, she might would have intrepretated the situation wrong. lol.


downtown there was this car.. people stoped to take a photo of it.


this guy even stoped his motorbike to take several photos from all sides.


so we had to do the same.. a little exaggerated.


then i took a closer look.


at the hairdresser.


nice light.



würstelmausi meaning "saussage-mousie". she didn't notice what was written behind her.. haha.


stuff of my grandfathers flat. my uncle and i carried it all down from the 4th floor. the house has no elevator of course.


nice light. sunbeams refelcting from a window.



on saturday there were 5 different parties i could have joined.. 5 birthdayparties.. in the end lots, lots, lots of alcohol for free... i remember drinking stolichnaya by the barkeeper who was standing on the bar pouring the vodka all over my face, into my mouth and eyes... it was just too much in the end..

so the first thing i remember is getting up in the morning, feeling sick, puking in the next bin i could find. i was even happy about successing to hit the damn thing and avoiding to puke all over the place... so went to sleep (on my couch) again... some hours later, i "finally" woke up.. only wearing one shoe.. so i was wondering where the second was...


neat detail is the sign "coxi@work" i made years ago for my laptop just for fun.. it's been laying around for years now and i don't know why it's still there but it fits perfectly for the photo i think :D










went to the antechamber and found it. next to some puke... ah ! so i must have puked earlier already.


so the next thing i was looking for was my camera. found the leica somewhere in the end.. damn i don't want to imagine....





later i started to wonder why the heck i was sleeping on the couch and not in the bed..


so i went in the bedroom to find out why.













a little shocked at first... but then i thought, glad i didn't puke it all over myself... later i've realized that the trousers i was wearing was also plastered in puke... just took me a while to realize.

what a morning.

didn't plan to post so soon again. but recruits keep asking me when they can see the portraits i've taken recently, so i'll post them now.

the idea was more or less portraying young austrian soldiers they way they are. no soldiers, with flawless shaved faces and perfect uniform, like how they army would want them be like.

using a flash and 20mm very close at f8.0, i was trying to go fussily into facial skin details, what reminds of the army philosophy and their rules. for me the expressions show boredom and demotivation, they somehow reflect my view and the view of most other recruits of the basic military service.



























love this one: too funny...

posting again..

as always the order is more or less chronological

apx100, taken with bessa r2m (so guessed focus but with camera metering ;)


i like her expression. makes me think of bernhards opinion about viennies people..


met these random guys on the shopping street.. didn't really sympathize with them


especially when he asked me for money, because he wants to make a nice wedding-eve party (polterabend) so he needed some bucks for alcohol and stuff.

i just offered him a photo instead.


now this is a random double exposure.. kinda makes lorant more intresting here :D


i thought these boys were kinda cute sharing a seat.


then i met this couple and found them even more cute ! they seem to be in good company too..


i was really hoping that this frame would work out.. since A: apx100 in the subway > f2.0 1/15th and B: guessing the focus (due to bessa r2m) on f2.0 is more or less a pain in the ass.


"no putting up posters!" > but we can paint.. is it art ? street art ? dunno.


she was reading "hermann hesse - narziß und goldmund" but who cares anyway, the sunglasses are what counts nowadays, everyone has them.


like her. what she didn't know was what the sticker underneath her was saying, naimly an URL "porns for free" in german.


went to sebastian for some serious discussing my upcoming website.. (no kiddin.. this time ;)


decided to stay over.. so we played poker all night.. this was the best game that night:

his hand: 9 + J mine: 9 + K, the flop: Q Q 9, we both checked, the turn: another Q, i had the full house with the 9, he checked, i went all in because i had the full house and didn't believe him having the fourth queen...

so he called my all-in, because he had the 9 too so the same full house and also didn't believe that i would have the 4th queen....

so we thought it would end in a split pot, because of the same hands... but then the 4th queen was on the river... damnit... so a Q-Poker was there and i had the higher kicker with the king..

so i won. lovely game :D


switching to kodak trix (with leica, so guessed exposure, more or less good focus... hah)

f4/60th pretty hard to guess here:


5.6 /125th more or less right there.


in the ZIPP... endstation that night.


the other day, we went to some party.. there was this IKEA advert in the back. saying "wild waves".. kinda thought of mr.wild aka bernhard...


at the party there was no light at all.. but beer insead.


way home in the nightbus.


going to to the barracks.. 6am.. a trix+2 loaded in the leica.. i think i hit the epxosure here...



sofia was trying the hooka.. it wasn't as tasty as she expected, since something gross was in the tube.. haha lovely expression


other night.. in the morgenstern. they got a new "beer thingy" the chrome thing on the photo.. it's awesome hahah.


5d + 20/2.8 and 580EXII or 50/1.4 without flash




As Poker. it's damn nice..



on the way home. drunk as shit once again. good to have a flash sometimes.


seb. went by bike.. obviously too drunk to put in the chain again.


climbing up stairs.. wild animal action !


we had fun with the 5d :D


the other day on my way to the barracks, 6:30am sunbeams. check this crop nice haha.


two recruits fencing with a cigpack.


nitsch@chillin in da hood


neda enjoying a pizza.. it was hard as stone.. good old army kitchen


"i find des supa", rekr. kainz "finds it great" to be in the army. he is our most motivated recruit, you can hear that everyday when he calls the "stellungspflichtigen" in the doctors room.


going to the HSP aka army hospital is kinda funny.. you can go there because of every pimple on your ass... it's kinda a thing for real slackers like kainz, reif and me... haha.


kainz enjoying a cig. the steko-book between his legs. it's for the army hospital.. TOP SECRET stuff.. it's always locked, very serious shit.


roggenhofer aka roggi aka drogenkoffer enjoying a leberkässemmel.. something rather gross... he is our womanizer !


back to some street photos.
lovely girl.


"new luck/happiness for your home" more IKEA adverts. what an ironic scene.


i may should get a car too.. i don't have a driving license.. but i'd save some money for the rent.


having late lunch with my father at cafe "wild" makes me think of bernhard again.


going to hainburg again. this time miriam joined us too.


the obligatory coming out of the tunnel photo.


a place i wanna live, i'd translate it like "marys misery" haha.. stupid.


finally arrived. it's really not a big town.


using the last sunbeams for the apx.


m. and the plants ;)


a neighbour, he joined for a beer. i think this is a nice portrait..


we made some fire to have some awesome barbeque.


there was a cat. so miriam found new friends..


she even took a photo of it, i'd never waste a frame for cats ;)


switching to trix@2000.

love these expressions..


next day. 5am. back to the barracks... just a month ago, the same place, same daytime, the sun was raising already.. summer is over :(




in the barracks.. we had a lot to do, like always:







because of so much work, we got really tired. not even red bull was helping anymore....


took the 5d to the barracks... it's kinda risky, since it's not such a modest camera, especially with 20/2.8 and a 580EXII ;)

but still i took some photos of my buddies in our rooms.



he's really gay... damnit.





visited miriam later that day. this is real white balance geeking...


today my mother came over to vienna. we had breakfast at my grandmothers place.




this marmelade is made by "koller".. this made her laugh.


she's kinda wack sometimes...


i went to my deceased grandfather's place to make some photos of what's left over. there is lots of strange personal stuff i won't publish in my blog but probably in an exhibiton in a sensible context.


the carpet was a present for his 75th anniversairy, his last one this february.


he got this driller by his grandfather many many years ago.


i found lots of INRIs around.


some left pieces of his sculptures. the blue really adds.


a pig on the toilet window.


some paintings and the view outside.


he always said how beautiful this dragon was.


more weird stuff:




10 years life. makes me wonder if people think about such things when they get old or are really sick.. how ironic.



my favourite photo of him:


and the last i took: