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A blog where Florian tries to post one photo per day.
Got nothing interesting today. Didn't really find the time to photograph. But during my commute I realized that our bike was about to hit 10,000 km. I did some quick calculations and funnily it amounts to almost exactly our daily commute every weekday since we got it. 😊
Coming home. Didn't leave the house today. Still not feeling super well – kinda up and down from day to day, really weird.
We held a very belated birthday party for Lumi today. (Back on her actual birthday, we didn't have a kitchen yet.) The kids made their own little fairy gardens. Since the weather was not great we had to do it indoors. I think they had fun and I love seeing them being creative.
Quiet afternoon walk during a break in the rain. I think the gloomy weather suits my photography – or maybe I was just happy to be outside taking pictures. I found a couple of hearts along the way – and at first, I only wanted to post those three images. But I found more photos that I liked, so a total of eight it is today.
Corona flip.
Short evening walk to get some steps in. Still not 100%, but feeling a bit better than yesterday.
Observing color. Felt a bit under the weather today, hopefully better tomorrow. 🤞
Yesterday's visit was only a test. Today, Tiny stayed for almost the whole day, because our friends (her owners) had lots of family over which is always quite stressful for the little dog. Ulya and the kids took her outside for the whole midday and afternoon so she was really tired in the end.
No rain today, so the path was clear – I love to see her this excited!
I was asked (once again) how this blog is built so decided to finally added a colophon page. 🙂
It rained all day. Spent the whole day indoors – aside from the morning and midday commute. Just now, I remembered I need a photo. So, here: The board (unused today)
Love seeing my work printed! Especially that big. (I think that's A2, if I am not mistaken.) I'll have a lot of my images framed and hanging all over the three collective.ruhr (the co-working space I've been part of since 2018!) locations very soon!
All free time goes into being on the board right now. I am there for it!
Marc wrote a very nice post about my photography at beyond tellerrand. ❤️
Bought a skateboard for Lumi yesterday. We even went to a proper skate shop in Düsseldorf. Maybe I went a little overboard (no pun intended), but my thinking is that if she has a really good one, she'll probably have more fun and learn faster than with a cheap one. She now owns the kind of skateboard I always wanted as a kid – I never properly learned, probably because the one I had was too heavy and clunky. Funny thing is, she never took to inline or roller skating, but taught herself to be halfway steady on a skateboard over the course of an afternoon. It was clear pretty quickly that she enjoys this much more. Really looking forward to so much skating this summer – her on the skateboard, me on my inline skates!
After the recent woodpecker sighting I took the long lens out into the backyard yesterday hoping to get another shot. But I had to pivot to insects after the birds were a no show. Still quite happy with the image I got.
I guess I'll share the following link a couple of times in the coming days to make sure everybody knows about it: my latest beyond tellerrand gallery is live.
Out and about with the little one. We took the bikes and went on a ride. Stopped at the same playground twice and we had ice cream. Pretty good day! Also very happy how the image above turned out. I always try to find new angles to shoot from. Might try a wider focal length next time.
🥁 Drumroll please: Very happy to announce that the beyond tellerrand 2026 gallery is now live! Please share far and wide!
Welcome back to the regular old mix of subjects. Today I spotted a spotted woodpecker in the backyard. I even managed to get the long lens (still not long enough though) in time to grab a couple of shots.
I am on the final stretch with the beyond tellerrand images. 200 images left in the final selection. The goal is to get that number down to around 150 to make them more digestible. I find this to be a good amount that is not overwhelming while still substantial, if that makes sense. I really enjoy this process of culling and sequencing.
Another beyond tellerrand is in the books. I had a great time – as always. Thanks for having me, Marc! Speakers above: André Michelle, Kimya Gandhi, Bramus Van Damme, James White and Lauren Celenza. It is hard to describe the feeling I have whenever I am on my way home. I guess hopeful comes to mind (not that I feel hopeless generally, but there is definitely a lot of positive energy in the room at btconf). I definitely feel inspired and ready to get back to work, especially on my own projects like picu or this photo blog. Anyway – the full gallery with many more images will be available later this week. Subscribe via RSS and you know exactly when! 😊
I had a great time at beyond tellerrand today. Amazing speakers pictured above include Oliver Reichenstein, Niels Leenheer, Marjan van Aubel, James Victore and Annie Atkins.
Almost 18k steps today. That's a lot of moving around, but obviously totally worth it. Also, thanks to everybody who came up and said hello! It is always nice to put faces to people I have up until now only communicated with online. Looking forward to day two!
Made it to Düsseldorf. Took a short walk around the hotel. Looking forward to the next two days!
I did only photograph around the house today. The image above is of our kitchen door (which we don't need), wrapped in bubble wrap. We'll store it away for the time being.
While I don't have anything interesting today, I feel quite confident that I'll have something more interesting in the coming days: I am looking very much forward to travelling the short distance to Düsseldorf tomorrow to once more document beyond tellerrand, happening on Monday and Tuesday. Very excited!
Enjoying the nice weather these past few days. Image above shot from the bike, while fetching the kids after school.
Made a little time for photography this evening. Observed forms and light and shadow. I also never noticed that huge "hole" in the building.
Observing color. (And a tiny moon.)
Lumi wrote "Sewing is like being able to do magic" on this little card and put it atop her sewing machine. She's really into it at the moment. (I think her teacher has this quote in her Studio.) We need more fabric!
Parking lot.
On today's agenda: Roller skating and Wrestlemania. We skipped all the men's bouts, because the girls were mostly interested in the women's entrances and costumes. 😊
