Category Archives: Photography
Eisenstadt and Esterhazy
The date stamps on my photos suggest that the last photo I took at the Schönbrunn Palace was time-stamped 10:53 AM, and the first photo I took at Eisenstadt was time-stamped 2:19 PM. We didn’t spend 3 hours on the road … Continue reading
Christmas Day Walk
Yes, I know it’s May. 2016 has been an extremely weird year, and one of these days I’ll blog it. But I recently got the photos sorted, processed and uploaded from the walk I took around Lake Temescal, in the … Continue reading
Vienna and the Schönbrunn Palace
The day after the Stephansdom concert, we had a bus tour of the Ring, followed by an organized group tour of the Schönbrunn Palace, then a drive into the countryside to visit Eisenstadt, where Haydn is buried, and Esterhazy Palace, … Continue reading
Performing in Budapest
On our second full day in Budapest, we had the morning off, then an afternoon rehearsal with orchestra, then 2 hours off for dinner, and then a performance. The rehearsal and the performance were all in Matthias Church, on Buda … Continue reading
The Blue Angels, 2014
Fleet Week 2015 just came and went. Oops – that means I never posted my photos from Fleet Week last year, when on October 12, 2014 I saw the Blue Angels perform from the Golden Gate Yacht Club, courtesy of our host, … Continue reading
Last Stop Budapest
We left Bratislava in mid-afternoon, a deliberate choice so we could enter Budapest after sundown. Our first stop was the last of the 79 locks on the trip, at the Gabčíkovo Dam, in Slovakia. This was part of a huge joint flood … Continue reading
Bratislava
Our next stop after Vienna was Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. Frankly, I found Bratislava intimidating, because it was the first time I’d ever been in a country where the written language (on signs and so on) made no sense to … Continue reading
St. Stephen’s, Vienna
Between tours we had some time to explore St. Stephen’s Cathedral. The current form of the cathedral dates to the mid-14th century, a combination of the Romanesque and Gothic styles. The first church on the site was consecrated in 1147. The … Continue reading
Driving Around Vienna
Well, not entirely – but a good deal of our “Vienna city walk” was done on a bus, hence the odd things that sometimes appear in my photos. You’ll only see the ones I could reasonably salvage. If you just … Continue reading
The Wachau Valley and Dürnstein
Having left Melk Abbey around noon, we sailed on down the Danube toward the Wachau Valley. This was the first day we had had unfettered access to the soi-disant “sun deck,” and of course it was overcast, although by the … Continue reading
