Gazing Enviously At Sissi

[Pete Askew]

I'll let you work out the title. It was taken this afternoon at Schönbrunn in Vienna.

Leica Monochrom + Voigtländer Ultra-wide Heliar 12 mm f1:5.6. ISO 320, 1/125s at f1:8.0. PP in LR and Nik SilverFX Pro 2.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Subtitle...Where's Elizabeth?

Love this!

 

[Paul Lange]

I have no idea about the title or who Elizabeth is but I like the photograph. I envy you Pete, I bet there was no chloroform or chicken wire used for this one.

 

[Glenn Clabo]

Excellent one Pete...love the way the sky leads my eye. However...suspense is killing me.

 

[Steve Boykin]

She is far more beautiful than Romy Pete.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Feels like I'm time traveling and looking at a remote event in space and time - very nicely done

 

[Brian Moore]

I don't care what the title means, Pete. I love the fotie! Mysterious and wonderful!

 

[Beth Anthony]

probably a reference to some obscure poem or book written in the 1800s by some guy on opium... no, not pete, someone else. really cool shot though. looks like it's out of someone's collection of photos of their grandmother's youth.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Very mysterious... Loving the choice of PP here Pete

 

[Aldous Lau]

Nice shot Pete. Monochrom really poison me a lot

 

[Hamish Gill]

I'm with the rest on Borge the title and the picture

Is that the natural vignette?

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Borge?

 

[Hamish Gill]

I have no idea ... The iPhone autocorrect has a mind of its own!

 

[Pete Askew]

I think Hamish might have been assimilated!

Thanks all. Ina is now in transit back to Berlin and I fly back to the UK tomorrow. So I have the evening to catch up on the 5 pages of posts!

Glad you liked the shot. The light and the topiary just called out for something a bit moody (and with a bit of implied storyline!). Steve spotted the reference and it is indeed a reference to a film from the 50s about Sissi, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, (I think you spotted it also Rob) played by Romy Schneider and one that Ina loved when she was a little girl (it was often shown on German TV). Maybe that is where the impish personality comes from.

 

[Hamish Gill]

iamPhone

 

[Rob MacKillop]

You could shorten that to iPhone...hmm...think I've heard of you!

 

[Pete Askew]

That'll be '33,796,427 of 33,800,621' to his friends then. Virtually omnipresent I'd say!