DS Stadt Zürich

April 23, 2007 2:11 AM | Related Categories: The Lake

DS Stadt Zürich

Im a foreigner living and working in Zurich and like AinZ I feel as if I'm a perpetual tourist. One of the great tourist attractions is the sight of the DS Stadt Zurich, or her sister ship Stadt Rapperswil, steaming up the lake towards Bürkliplatz with the alps in the background (rather hazy here unfortunately). This is the first shot I have this year - the ships only run from April to October.

Stadt Zürich has been in service since 1909, although refitted quite a few times, and I guess this sight is pretty much unchanged since then, apart from development along the lakeside. More info on ZSG website

One of the other advantages I have as a resident is that my GA (yearly Swiss travel pass) is valid on these as well as virtually everything else that moves in the country. They are after all just public transport.

For those interested, this was taken with a Canon EOS5D and Zuiko 500mm f8 mirror lens,  attached courtesy of an adpater from cameraquest.com

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Wonderfully captured & composed shot!
# Posted By kalyan | 4/23/07 3:44 PM
Richard....it's fascinating to me how good successful photos also have a kind inner feeling/life of their own....can't quite find the words.

What I mean is...this view of the ship, solid, wide, sedate (not too much bow foam) elegant, precise metal engineering, and firmly sat, marches along.....sound and solid, just like Stadt Zurich itself. (Sorry about the "sat" and the "marching", but you know what I mean!!
# Posted By Chuckeroon | 4/23/07 9:47 PM
very nice! I think the haze works to your advantage because the ship is such a strong image, everything else should fade into a haze. I particularly like how the alps are barely discerned in the shot!
# Posted By Chris | 4/23/07 9:59 PM
@chuckeroon - I know what you mean, and thanks for the compliment. There is a word/phrase for this type of compositional device, but I can't for the life of me remember it. Feel as old as DS Stadt Zurich today
# Posted By Richard | 4/23/07 10:12 PM
Actually, I think you got pretty good "Alp-age" in your shot. At least, for someone who goes to ZH only once in a while and finds too much haze to see very far.

The GA is such a wonderful thing. My movements don't warrant a year-long one, but I do get a month-long one every year around this time to see more of CH.
# Posted By z | 4/23/07 10:41 PM
Im a foreigner living and working in Sydney and I feel as if I'm a perpetual tourist.
Cheers!
# Posted By nathalie | 4/23/07 10:59 PM
Beautiful shot - the compression of the shot with that mirror lens is great.
# Posted By Paul | 4/24/07 5:10 AM
Is that snow in the Alps?
Knowing practically zilch about photography, I just know how a photo makes me feel, and this makes me wish I was there!
# Posted By isabella | 4/24/07 9:11 AM
@Isabella - snow, yes. The mountains in the background are over 3000 meters and have snow all year round (well for the moment they do, but the glaciers are disappearing fast). And yes, the technical detail means nothing other than to obsessives like me
# Posted By Richard | 4/24/07 10:29 AM
thanks for the link! you took this picture from Burkliplatz? the Alps look so much closer in your picture. When I stand on Burkliplatz, they seem so much further away... Z is right--unfortunately it's usually too hazy to see the Alps clearly. I didn't realize there was a month-long GA. definitely something to look into!
# Posted By ainz | 4/25/07 2:42 AM
@ainz - 500mm is a great focal length for playing games with ;)
# Posted By Richard | 4/25/07 6:21 AM
Regarding your comment to AinZ, having a 432mm equivalent in a "pocket" camera is awfully nice! I really take my FZ7 everywhere, everyday. It looks and feels like a toy, but the small size and the light weight are difficult to beat for a casual photographer like myself. Do I sound like an advertisement for Panasonic? Then let me hurry to add that the 28-504mm (equiv) in the new Olympus 550UZ looks w-a-a-a-y interesting.
# Posted By z | 4/25/07 10:50 PM
This place looks like Istanbul...Great picture!
Seda
# Posted By seda | 4/28/07 3:59 AM
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