Last Post in Austria - a photo on Flickriver

After breakfast on our last day in Austria, I paused to photograph my mother as I left her to settle the hotel bill while I had a final walk around the lakeside village and then on up Odinstein, where I took what was to become one of my most satisfying photographs Odins einäugige Ausblick.

We then drove back to Vienna to catch a plane home to Melbourne. (I admit that after re-fuelling the car on the way, and winding our way back onto the autobahn, we had a brief period heading back towards Salzburg, owing to the confusing part of the sky they put the sun in the northern hemisphere!)

My mother had long wanted to show me over the land of her birth, and we had an opportunity in 1996. What has driven me to post this soft image is the realisation that I am about to hit the birthday that will take me to the age she was when I took this shot in the dining room of the Hotel Post in Traunkirchen in the Salzkammergut! She had a framed copy of Odin's One-eyed Outlook on her wall for the rest of her life until she died two years ago in 2020, aged 102. Bleib ruhig Mutti.

Kodak Gold 200-5, Pentax Espio 928. The conditions were perhaps asking a lot of my little travelling camera, and the commercial film results were as usual disappointing. Decades on, after scanning it, I have been able to bring this image up to the point where it works for me at least. The charming young waitress was caught, side-on and mirror-inverted, in close to the pose that Vermeer universalised in his painting The Milkmaid...

Taken in: Austria / Upper Austria / Traunkirchen / Traunkirchen (show map)

Taken on: November 1, 1996

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Camera: Film Scanner , f/2.8, 1/30 sec, 0mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Film Scanner
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	0.033 sec (1/30)
Focal Length:	0mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	-0.66 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Unknown (13924)
Metering Mode:	Multi-spot
White Balance:	Unknown (288)
Sharpness:	Soft
Color Space:	sRGB
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