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I normally associate water hydrants with city streets but I came across this one on a windy lane in the middle of nowhere near the Austrian village of Rattenberg.  There were no houses nearby so I wondered why it had been placed there in the trees on the side of the track.  The bright powder blue and orange colours really stood out, you certainly couldn't miss it if you were a fire engine looking for a water main, but with flaking paint and rust, it obviously hadn't been used in years. All images taken on a Fujifilm Finepix X100 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

After all the colourful images I have posted from the trip to Austria I decided that I need to return to a mono theme for today's post.  Walking around the village of Rattenberg where we stayed during the recent European Le Mans Series race at the Red Bull Ring, situated 6km from the village, I photographed some of the typically Alpine houses and working buildings.  I decided to work these images in black and white as the olde world feeling of the village suited the mono look.  What do you think? All images taken on a Fujifilm Finepix X100 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

One of the things I noticed while in the Styrian Alps was the amount of wild flowers that carpeted the meadows and were abundant on the roadside verges - it was a beautiful sight.  On my walk around Rattenberg on Sunday morning I stopped to take some pictures of the various flowers and insects on the Fuji X100. All images taken on a Fujifilm Finepix X100 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION If you like what you see on this blog ple...

The little village of Rattenberg is where the small family run hotel we stayed in for the 3 Hours of the Red Bull Ring is situated.  On the Sunday morning before we headed back to Vienna to catch the plane home I decided to get up before breakfast and go for a walk around the village. Not far from the hotel I came across what must be one of the smallest churches in the world so I had to stop and take some images.   The plaques on each side of the door is names of the fallen in the two world wars, the one on the left is for the 1914-18 war and the one on the right is for 1939-45. I'm not sure how many people would fit into the church but it would be rather cosy, especially in the recent hot weather. I continued my walk around Rattenberg and will post some more images of the beautiful part of Austria tomorrow. All images taken on a Fujifilm Finepix X100 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...