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This is one of Vienna's very efficient rubbish-incinerating plants, which provide heating to many homes over the winter.
Situated in Spittelau, in Vienna's 9th District, the present building's predecessor was itself a victim of fire in the 1980s. There was much public opposition to re-erecting it on the same site, but Vienna's Mayor of the day, Dr Helmut Zilk, in a stroke of genius engaged the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser to decorate the exterior. The combination of the humorous architecture with the installation of newly-developed filter systems (any "smoke" that comes out of the chimney is condensation) calmed the outcry, and it is today a popular landmark in the city.
Inspired by the current "Macro Mondays" theme of "Squaring the Circle".
Taken using a "Max Wider" adapter on a 28mm wide angle lens, giving a circular fish-eye image on a "Full-frame" sensor.
The Max Wider was one of many cheap and nasty attachments available in the 1960s and '70s for people who had bought an SLR with a 50 or 55mm standard lens and would have liked to buy a telephoto or wide-angle but couldn't afford it.
Even stopping down the lens right down doesn't really make the optical quality acceptable - but it's fun, so who cares?!!!
SMC Takumar 28mm f:3.5 with Max Wider attachment lens
PENTAX K-1
Vienna-Spittelau-Hundertwasser II.jpg
This is one of Vienna's very efficient rubbish-incinerating plants, which provide heating to many homes over the winter.
Situated in Spittelau, in Vienna's 9th District, the present building's predecessor was itself a victim of fire in the 1980s. There was much public opposition to re-erecting it on the same site, but Vienna's Mayor of the day, Dr Helmut Zilk, in a stroke of genius engaged the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser to decorate the exterior. The combination of the humorous architecture with the installation of newly-developed filter systems (any "smoke" that comes out of the chimney is condensation) calmed the outcry, and it is today a popular landmark in the city.
Inspired by the current "Macro Mondays" theme of "Squaring the Circle".
Taken using a "Max Wider" adapter on a 28mm wide angle lens, giving a circular fish-eye image on a "Full-frame" sensor.
The Max Wider was one of many cheap and nasty attachments available in the 1960s and '70s for people who had bought an SLR with a 50 or 55mm standard lens and would have liked to buy a telephoto or wide-angle but couldn't afford it.
Even stopping down the lens right down doesn't really make the optical quality acceptable - but it's fun, so who cares?!!!
SMC Takumar 28mm f:3.5 with Max Wider attachment lens
PENTAX K-1