Wurst

Sausages are important stuff here in Central Europe. Not only because they are undoubtedly on the top spots of people diet, but also because the German word for it, Wurst, has surprising meaning changes, which made it today's favourite word.

Expression #1 is Jetzt geht's um die Wurst!, meaning that it gets really serious now, that it is neck or nothing, now for it! The sausage is here the heart of the matter, what really counts.

Expression #2 is Es ist mir Wurst!, which translates as "I don't care", "It's all the same to me". We seem to have lost all of our interest in sausages now!



It's funny how close languages are, when you look at them from afar. Jetzt geht's um die Wurst! could loosely translate in Spanish as "Echar toda la carne en el asador" (lit. "to put all the meat to grill"). Meat is again something serious. And Es ist mir Wurst would be "Me importa un pimiento" (lit. "it means a pepper to me"). Apparently, in Spain we don't care about peppers, they don't care about sausages in Austria.

To-may-to, to-mah-to, ...

Got a little crazy today...

...and I did this:



Yes, I got myself another camera! :) The price was really a hit (€99) and I just could not resist.

Soon after we got EduDigis (our DSLR), my good old point-and-shoot PowerShot A60 passed away, and I missed a small camera to carry around ever since. Then my parents got me Nikonsita (Coolpix S200), and even though it is a great camera, it turned out it is too thin (!!) and I never really got used to it being so lightweight, especially after having had EduDigis in my hands.


My dear old A60... Sniff...

I saw yesterday this incredible offer, read some reviews on the internet and I just got myself what I hope will be an honourable successor of my very much missed A60.



Am I a little crazy? Do we really need 3 cameras? ;)

222 times thanks!

I would have never thought that there would be so many voters, but yet, 56 of you have been so kind to help me choosing the three pictures left. These are the winners:





The exhibition is going to start after Easter (March 25th). I will be posting all pictures online by then.

Many many thanks for the 222 votes! You are really the best! :)

I need your help!

A couple of months ago I was proposed to exhibit some of my photographs in divinotinto (dass muss sünde sein) in Salzburg. The exhibition will have 11 pictures, and I need your help, because so far I just have been able to choose 8. I do not seem to be able to pick the other 3, so I decided to make a poll among my dear readers! :)

Each one of you has 4 votes. You can distribute them as you wish (4 to one single picture, 4 votes to 4 different pics, 2 and 2, ...). Leave me a comment, or send me an e-mail. You may visit my flickr album and leave your comments there!

The deadline to vote is Tuesday, 26th of February.

Photo 2	Photo 8
Photo 1	Photo 5
Photo 4	Photo 6
Photo 3	Photo 7

Many many thanks! :)