Bad lighting, terrible coating, the wrong camera, the wrong lens and reflections all over the place. So what could possibly go wrong! Exactly, nothing went wrong and everything turned out to be fun and entertaining in the end. Be unprepared and deal with it. At least that's one way to happiness.

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There’s a tiny spot in the middle of the woods not too far from where I live. There’s literally nothing special about this place. It’s just a forest, so what do you expect! There are trees, some of them are fallen over, there are some leaves, some old trunks and branches are laying on the ground, th...

So much about the Valais valley is about the arrival. The trip there is long and cumbersome. You have to drive a lot, travel a lot. Everything is small and narrow, dense, the toy like infrastructure works like a clockwork. But there’s no space, no room. Everything has to be squeezed in there, until...

Miguel Chevalier is one of these artists that I have discovered rather late in life even though I was aware of his name and vaguely of his work all the time. He’s an artist which is about 15 years older than I am and pretty much everything he was able to accomplish in life have always been mileston...

Your first foot is out of the door already. The rest of you is still in between. There you’ll hear it. Muted. Soft. And chill. A wave of silence that makes your ears really listening again after a long time. It’s gently squeaking, chirping. It’s a bit like in a foam bath with its tiny bubbles burs...

Some changes are happening early this year. As I was tired of looking at my old website built with the Yellow CMS and having only limited design choices available, I started shortly after New Year's Day on my new 2026 website design for aboutgrau.com.

The new design is now based on the Grav C...

The Blark black and white camera app is a rather new addition to my most used camera apps on my iPhone these days. I want to mention it here quickly because even though it's not perfect, it's doing a lot of things right. The Blark app is a pretty new app, it was first released in 2025, so at the p...

Berlin. 2025. History wherever you go. Like in many other major European cities you can't move a single cobblestone without revealing endless stories of the past. The future in such areas is always relative, it never exists without the things and stories that have existed before. Every decision come...

The summer of 2025 is almost over already but I still have some pictures to show you that hopefully bring back that summer vibe. Back in June I've been visiting the small Italian island of Elba for the very first time. Elba is best reached by car via a ferry boat from the mainland. The obvious route...

Big, huge, vast, impressive, intimidating, monumental, majestic, colossal. It's these terms that start spinning through my head when looking at the unfinished tons of brick and granite of the Congress Hall (German Kongresshalle) in Nuremberg. The often so called Coliseum has been designed by Franz a...