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Fotoeins Friday: Vienna street art, four

Imperishable Relics“, 2015 wall mural by Evoca1, in the city’s 6th district.

I made the image on 29 May 2022 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/125-sec, f/9, ISO1000, and 18.5mm focal length (28mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-pvf.

Fotoeins Friday: Vienna street art, three

Was macht uns Menschen schön?“, 2022 wall mural by rip off crew for dm Austria, near the north end of Salztorbrücke in the city’s 2nd district.

I made the image on 31 May 2022 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/1000-sec, f/11, ISO1000, and 18.5mm focal length (28mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-pv7.

Fotoeins Friday: Vienna street art, two

mantra“, 2019 art piece by Mind the Heart, near the south end of Salztorbrücke in the city’s 1st district.

I made the image on 31 May 2022 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/125-sec, f/8, ISO1000, and 18.5mm focal length (28mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-puW.

Fotoeins Friday: Vienna street art, one

The immense gap between past and future“, 2013 wall mural by Faith47, at the Ankerbrotfabrik in the city’s 10th district.

I made the image on 8 Jun 2022 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/320-sec, f/16, ISO1000, and 18.5mm focal length (28mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-oGC.

10. Bezirk, Favoriten, Wien, Vienna, Austria, Österreich, Fuji X70

Fotoeins Friday: Vienna still, four

“What’s the hubbub, bub?”

A quiet contemplative moment in the middle of the rush, at the city’s main/central station.

I made the image on 22 May 2022 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-ok0.

Neuer Markt, 1. Bezirk, Innere Stadt, Wien, Vienna, Austria, Österreich, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday: Vienna still, three

Neuer Markt

Afternoon light at Kupferschmiedgasse, in the 1st district.

I made the image on 19 May 2022 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/500-sec, f/14, ISO1000, and 18.5mm focal length (28mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-ojR.

9. Bezirk, Alsergrund, Servitenkirche, Wien, Vienna, Austria, Österreich, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday: Vienna still, two

“Fegefeuer” (purgatory)

A moment of quiet contemplation, in the Servitenkirche.

Is that light supposed to illuminate the darkness and heal the emptiness?
Or is it simply a collimated channel of solar energy which shines a light on all that’s wrong with human beings?
What are the chances that the only other visitor to enter the church sits in exactly that spot?
What are the chances that I’ve any protection outside these walls?

I made the image above on 1 Jun 2022 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/250-sec, f/9, ISO4000, and 18.5mm focal length (28mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-ojy.

5. Bezirk, Margareten, Wien, Vienna, Austria, Österreich, Fuji X70

Fotoeins Friday: Vienna still, one

“Renn” (run).

Next to the Wien river on the Recht Wienzeile, in the 5th district.

I made the image on 15 May 2022 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/60-sec, f/8, ISO2000, and 18.5mm focal length (28mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-ofL.

My Vienna: Dr. Olga Ehrenhaft-Steindler, trailblazer & women’s advocate

In examining the history of the University of Vienna, I discovered Olga Ehrenhaft-Steindler was the first woman to receive a doctoral degree in physics from the university in 1903. Who was she? How did she become the first? How did society of the time view the education of young women?

I’m starting a series on women who left their mark on Vienna and Austria, and some of the traces they left behind in the Austrian capital city. With educators, inventors, writers, and scientists, my serial includes: Dr. Marietta Blau; Marianne Hainisch; Hedwig Kiesler, a.k.a. Hedy Lamarr; Dr. Lise Meitner; Dr. Gabriele Possanner; Dr. Elise Richter; and Bertha von Suttner.


Who: Dr. Olga Ehrenhaft-Steindler: b/✵ 28 Oct 1879, d/✟ 21 Dec 1933.
PhD: 1st woman with doctoral degree in physics from University of Vienna, 1903.
Educator: Early 20th-century teacher & advocate for better access to education for young women.

In late 19th-century and early 20th-century Austria and Vienna, Olga Steindler was one of countless women who faced difficulties and challenges by young women who wanted to expand their education and improve employment, all of which were viewed by society at the time as undesirable. Feminism or anything similar did not exist.

Born and raised in Vienna, Olga Steindler departed her home for Prague to complete and pass her final high-school examinations in 1899, because young women were not permitted to do so within Austria at the time. She subsequently enrolled at the University of Vienna to study physics and mathematics within the Faculty of Philosophy. Only two years earlier in 1897 had the University of Vienna finally accepted the enrolment of women, although they were initially allowed only into the Faculty of Philosophy. In 1903, Steindler became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Vienna after successfully completing her research dissertation.

Completing qualifications for teaching at secondary (high) schools in the same year, she joined the “Athenäum” where she taught young women about experimental physics; she also taught at Vienna’s first girls’ secondary school established by Marianne Hainisch in the city’s 1st district. In 1907, she founded two new schools in Vienna: a girls’ public secondary school in the city’s 2nd district, and a business school for young women in the city’s 8th district. Steindler married her physicist colleague Dr. Felix Ehrenhaft in 1908; she became known as Dr. Olga Ehrenhaft-Steindler. She championed the cause for educating girls and young women, and creating new opportunities in science, business, and society at large. For her dedicated service to the public, Austria awarded her in 1931 the title of “Hofrat” as a new member of the imperial court advisory council, an honour uncommon among Austrian women at the time. At the age of 54, Dr. Olga Ehrenhaft-Steindler died in December 1933 from complications after having contracted pneumonia.


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Karpfengasse, Heidelberg Altstadt, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Deutschland, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday: home in the Old Town (HD)

One of the great joys of being back “home” in Heidelberg is a slow relaxed stroll through the side streets in the university’s Altstadt (Old Town). Residents will have “strong” opinions about navigating the Hauptstrasse (main road) at the best of times, but newcomers quickly learn about the side streets and alternate east-west routes. In this image is Karpfengasse (“carp lane”), facing north to the Kongresshaus Stadthalle in the background.

I made the image on 15 Mar 2017 with a Canon EOS6D mark1 and these settings: 1/250-sec, f/16, ISO1000, and 50mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-ofx.

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