It’s the 15th of August 1961, as additional elements of the Berlin Wall went up next to a made-up barbed-wire fence marking the border of East and West Berlin. An East Berlin guard made up their mind to defect on the spot, and jumped over the fence safely into West Berlin. His name was Conrad Schumann, and news photographs of his jump made him famous. A sculpture in 2009 called “Mauerspringer” (wall jumper) captures that fateful moment; a large photograph of that very moment is on a wall nearby.
I made the image above on 16 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/500-sec, f/8, ISO2000, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vsb.
First discovered in the living area in 2022; back there every summer since for their Nepali-Himalayan cuisine. A weekday lunch buffet with meat and vegetarian options. A nourishing glass of mango lassi. As spicy as I can handle. Not only do they have momos on their regular menu, they also have momo nights 🥟
Hofmühlgasse 21 in the 6th district.
There used to be a lush green garden, but apparently the new owners of the larger property have other thoughts, much to the chagrin of the restaurant’s owners and its neighbours.
Monday and Thursday nights are momo nights: 1 price for as many momos it’ll take to satisfy the craving.
Mango lassi; 1st course: papadams; tofu & peas in a curry sauce, pan-fried chicken wings, chicken curry, vegetable curry, jasmine rice to mop up the sauces; 2nd course (not shown): same as the 1st, but switched out chicken curry for cauliflower curry. All delicious as always, every summer since 2022.
They’ve been around for awhile, communicating gratitude to their customers and neighbours.
The restaurant’s inside seating is very modest, but most of their seating is outside under cover.
Tschüss! Bussi!
I received neither support nor compensation for this content. I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 3 July 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
I arrived at the city in time, as a featured art exhibition was scheduled to end in less than a week. The first time I’d seen their work was in a gallery on Geary St. in San Francisco in 2011. The impact of having seen their images has long stayed with me. Almost 14 years later, I’m in Vienna’s Albertina for their 1st ever presentation of Francesca Woodman with over 100 of her photographs from the Verbund Collection.
Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) was an American-Italian artist who created an essential body of photographic work: expanding poetic ideas into the visual with the play of natural light and the use of external props (as if a stage-play); examining human beings’ relationships to the spaces we occupy; and asking questions about we view each other, particularly women. Her images provide a kind of electric charge, a sense of momentum and drive, and an overall energy that transitions frequently between the static and dynamic.
I’m a little sad she didn’t have a long life: what ideas, work, wisdom, and message could have come over the intervening years. I’m happy I found her work all those years ago, more so now that I’ve had some time to learn what she was trying to communicate and portray during those 9 special years of her life.
Albertina: on display on the 2nd floor. The Francesca Woodman exhibition ends Sunday, July 6.
“From Polka Dots or Polka Dots”, from the Polka Dots series, 1976.
“House #3”, from the Abandoned House series, ca. 1975-1976.
Untitled, 1975-1976.
Untitled, 1976.
“Almost A Square”, ca. 1977.
“Corner with Lily”, 1978.
Untitled, 1978.
Untitled, 1979.
Untitled, 1979. What’s special about this pair of images: “The artist holds the skeleton of a large leaf in front of her naked back. The stalk and veins of the leaf allude to her spine and ribs, respectively, with a formal correspondence to the structure in the wall, which has been exposed by the peeling plaster layer. There’s a reference to the shape of the leaf as well as her dress’ fern-print pattern. The props are unrelated, but the artist has created a chain of references among leaf, wall, dress pattern, and her body.”
I received neither support nor compensation for this content. I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 2 July 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
There’s no finer way to mark today’s Canada Day than to find the Canadian Embassy 🇨🇦 in the Austrian capital city. It’s all part of my walk through the Inner City, starting at U1/U4 Schwedenplatz and ending near U2/U3 Volkstheater.
Vienna’s historic city centre was inscribed onto the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2001, but its status was put onto the Danger list in 2017 with plans (threats?) for development.
It’s 501am and 801am in Vancouver and Toronto, respectively. But here in Vienna, I completed food shopping for the next few days. I’m about to have lunch, after which is some time in the inner city. “3” (Drei) is Austria’s third largest mobile carrier after A1 and Magenta Telekom. Naturally, all temperatures are in degrees Celsius.
While the building has multiple tenants, the uppermost floor is occupied by the Government of Canada with its embassy (Botschaft).
The flag pole is attached to the wall with a metal plate in the shape of a maple leaf.
Summertime shop for Eis Greissler (Greissler’s Ice Cream).
Their flavours for the day 🍨😋
At Stephansplatz, the northwest corner of St. Stephen’s Cathedral (near the cathedral model) has on its wall a small rectangular plaque whose text inscription is almost entirely faded.
This plaque dates to 1945 when Soviet troops had moved into the city and checked building by building. The two words in Cyrillic are: квартал проверен (kvartal proveren), “Häuserblock geprüft”, building checked. There are at least 2 more Soviet inscription-plates like this appearing elsewhere in Vienna.
Steiff: it’s not only about teddy bears 🧸 so how about Riddler bear, Bat-bear, and Elton John bear. At lower-left is a more modest-sized bear holding a little red heart 🫶🏽
מוּזֵיאוֹן “Museum“, 2011 light installation by artist Brigitte Kowanz for the Jewish Museum Vienna.
Bräunerstrasse, west towards Josefsplatz.
“Henry: the art of living”, at Billa Corso Michaelerplatz.
Hofburg Palace, from Michaelerplatz.
“Volkspartei, Volksgarten”
“Island” platform for U-Bahn U3 (orange) station Volkstheater. This is also a junction station with the U2 line (purple).
I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 1 July 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
Travel day 54. The beginning of day 48 in Berlin ends with day 1 in Vienna.
I completed 7 weeks in Berlin after having been away for almost 4 years. But this is now my 4th consecutive summer in Vienna, another month in the Austrian capital. I guess the Vienna “Grantigkeit” is something I can recognize and appreciate. I’ll miss the general reach, frequency, and efficiency of Berlin’s U- & S-Bahn, but I’m also a fan of Vienna’s “end of the Alps” foothills and the unmistakable presence of the Danube river.
From one airport’s train station at BER, to the next airport’s train station at VIE.
I arrived at Berlin’s airport on an FEX (Flughafen Express) train from Gesundbrunnen station.
Multiple tracks and platforms at Berlin Brandenburg Airport BER train station.
The airport is named after former German chancellor Willy Brandt. “If I were asked to say what, apart from peace, was most important to me, then my answer would be ‘freedom’.”
BER gates A16 and A17 at left and right, respectively. My flight to Vienna with Austrian Airlines from gate A17 is getting the prep.
Into VIE: Terminal 1 arrivals’ baggage carousel.
How could you, VIE, possibly know I was thinking about going back to Meissl & Schadn? Perhaps this is why.
I’m about to board an ÖBB RailJet train to Vienna’s central station (Hauptbahnhof).
I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 30 June 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
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