When going for a walk on weekends or in my spare time I tend to explore always the same spots. There's a handful of tracks that I usually prefer to walk along. In a way it's relaxing to know what's coming next. You don't have to look on a map continuously to find your way or not to miss the next tur...

Mountains are incredible. They have always been there since the beginning of time. They will always be there until the end of time. They don't change. They are eternal. In fact there are only a few places left where you can think of planet earth as something that is stable and reliable. Stable like...

We seem to live in really difficult times these days. There's the war in Ukraine that is killing thousands of people, both aggressors and defenders. There's the recent earthquake in Turkey in Syria with collapsing buildings and again thousands of casualties. There are the totalitarian regimes in Afg...

A couple of weeks ago I was among those people who decided that it's about time to leave twitter behind and look for something else. For me leaving Twitter was relatively easy. I just had a tiny account there which just a handful of followers. In recent years I mainly used Twitter for reading, it wa...

Yes, I know, it's that season again. We're approaching Christmas soon and everywhere the Christmas songs start playing, there are decorated Christmas trees and special streetlights to welcome this most festive season of the year. It's easy to become overwhelmed and get enough of all that shopping te...

During my recent stay in Venice while the Biennale Arte 2022 was still taking place, I also had the chance to visit Marlene Dumas' solo exhibition "open-end" in the Palazzo Grassi. Certainly I recognized Dumas' name when preparing my trip to Italy, but so far I never had a clear picture of her w...

Earlier this year I've made a trip to South Tyrol again. It was early autumn and the leaves started to get colored already. As I got to know this area quite well over the years this time I decided to give up on making my regular types of images and instead go with something new. I remembered that fo...

You might already have seen my posts on Twitter and Mastodon about my new account on substack.com. Substack.com is a website for writers to publish their works directly to their audience via mail, so it works mostly like a email newsletter. Even if my audience here is rather small I often feel the...

I love you. I'm sure you've heard this a lot, but it's true. I'm deeply in love with you. And it happens again and again every time I have the chance to visit you. Thankfully there are lots of opportunities that work as an excuse to come to you every year or at least every other year. For me this ex...

Everyone knows Paris, but did you ever have the chance to travel to France without stopping in the big capital? Earlier in June this year I've made a trip to Burgundy, more precisely I saw the area around the cities of Auxerre, Dijon and Beaune. Of course Burgundy is famous for wine and cheese...