MrPingouin's Igloo

I've just spent 4 days in Vienna, for the Frequency Festival, and for the town itself of course.

The town is great, the buildings are really beautiful. The streets are wide (public lighting is most of the time hung in the middle of the streets, having no lamp "bodies" on the sidewalks make them really wide), and oh god, it's so clean : no cigaret ends, no craps on the floor, almost no posters (compared to Paris), and the main part of the posters I've seen are about art exhibitions, it may sound so silly but it's hard to find this in Paris !

The public transports network is awesome :
- It's, again, and I really insist on it, so clean, no ugly graffitis or scratches (I precise : I have nothing against artistic and beautiful graffitis, I love them, but the little nicknames written with a felt pen everywhere with no more artistic sens than vomit, I just can't stand them).
- Still no ads... I mean, just come to Paris and see how much you're assaulted by posters claiming that the tomatoes are only 1 euro in such shop, or how you do feel better and stronger with such clothes or whatever
- it's brightly set up : each lines of the subway (the "U-bahn") has a specific color, which is common would you say, except that the props you'll find in the stations, banisters for instance, do have the same color than the line they serve, it's just simply ingenious
- and the best : there's no gates. No. Gates. I mean, what the hell, there must be such a civic and polite education that people doesn't cheat on this paying no tickets ? You'll NEVER find this in Paris, never.

I've never been shoved out at anytime by people (even in the festival !) except at one time : when I got into a church to listen to Mozart's requiem, people was from everywhere but Vienna. Shhh... tourists.

And then you come back to Paris.
You take the "RER B" to go from the airport to the center of the town, and finally you realize.
After only four days, I keep in mind an idea I've never really noticed before : we french people (especially in Paris I guess) are just ****ing gross barbarian porks.

Myself, genetically modified.

Okay, the text idea was from DLG, if you like photography and cosplay, have a look at his website.

http://convention.elvenmaid.org/

Here they come, the pictures I talked about on the last post.
This session was a real nightmare, I did all the dumbest mistakes you can do with a film camera :
* I let the camera fall on the ground : it opened itself on the crash and the film was exposed, luckily by night in Madrid
* I thought I had rollback the film to change it, but I hadn't : I opened the camera and the film was directly exposed again, at 4pm in Tavira (south of portugal)


Fortunately, the damage was less important than what I was fearing.

All the pictures were taken with the olympus XA and fujifilm superia x-tra 800 film, here you can see the result of my home scanner. This camera is definitely my favorite wandering shooter, I decided to buy it a Manfrotto modopocket, I really don't want to carry a big tripod all the time.

Anyway, here are some pictures of Madrid, a really cute city, but I think I do prefer Barcelona, maybe because of the sea.









And after 1 mid-day road-trip, we were in the south Portugal, in Faro. But the pictures here are all taken in Tavira, one of the best little town you'll find on the south coast.
The train you can see helps you to go from the town to the beach... really cool.

There's a woman at the end of this corridor of the Cathedral of Chartres, she's selling tickets to visit one of the towers of the edifice.

Still this scanner problem, I'm getting mad.

I was in London last week-end. I decided not to take my EOS350d but just the little olympus xa. I didn't find any fujifilm superia x-tra 800 film there, so I had to take only what I found : the same in 400 iso, and a kodak gold 400, very general public (tourist ) films.
The procedure is still the same, scan of brilliant paper prints, auto-levels in CS2 and voilà, I really like the tones it produces.