Vienna at sunrise

Erm... so I (accidentally?) stayed up until 5AM this morning and then I decided since I was already up, I might as well go take photos. Thus, at around 5:14 this morning, I ventured over to Stephansplatz (again). For some reason, I didn't expect there to be any people, but I guess I forgot that Vienna is actually a very big city so obviously some people would be awake. There is a surprising number of people up and about at 5 in the morning, but it is still nothing compared to what you would see during the day. At Stephansplatz, there was a group of drunk teenagers just lying on the pavement. I think one of them puked. Luckily, it was in a garbage can.

Overall, it was really nice to just walk through the "empty" Innere Stadt. It was so quiet so every time the shutter clicked, it sounded ridiculously loud and I felt like a creeper. However, I really wanted to capture what I saw, heh. The light coming through the clouds bathed the buildings in some really gorgeous light, which made for a rather surreal experience (being half-asleep might have helped). I wish the photos could reflect everything exactly as I saw it, but I guess that's more or less impossible. Oh well. I tried?

Staatsoper

Yeah, so I'm pretty happy with how these turned out. At least I didn't stay up for nothing :D. Unfortunately, now my sleeping schedule is really messed up. I didn't sleep until 7:30AM or so... which basically puts me back into CST back home, haha.