Today's school festival had various games and prizes. The ones involving water were quite popular due to the high temperatures.
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2026-06-16
Went out for a quick evening walk and got greeted with a blinking red battery light in my view finder. Still managed to get a couple of photos by turning the camera off immediately after taking a shot. I can only remember one time I ran out of batteries when out shooting. 🤷♂️
Mike wrote a great post about photography as a distraction and he was kind enough to feature a quote from me. 😊
2026-06-15
Early morning walk. I imagine the bird on top of the aviary talking shit to the poor fellows inside.
2026-06-14
Love that this looks like it was somewhere in the middle of the woods, but it is actually in Gruga park, where we spent the morning.
2026-06-13
Pretty similar image to yesterday's (but taken today). 🤷♂️ I liked the bird, but a longer lens would have helped a lot. I still like the composition.
2026-06-12
Really struggling to say something along these images lately, so I am just not gonna… (I need some dedicated photography time soon!)
Oh yeah, just as I was hitting publish, I remembered that yesterday was the 2,000th post on this blog! Kind of a cool milestone right there. Took ~9.8 years or 3,577 days to get here. That is one post roughly every other day for nearly a decade! 🤯
2026-06-11
Got nothing today. (At least not to share, so, the image above is from a couple of days ago.) This whole week was really not great in terms of photography so far. The weekend can't start soon enough!
2026-06-10
Observing color.
2026-06-09
Observing light and shadow. Had about 20 minutes just now to get out and get the image for today. With that done, on to the next task: getting the kids into bed.
2026-06-08
Crossing the tracks.
2026-06-07
At the playground.
2026-06-06
Spent a couple of hours at Gruga park with the kids. I was already dreading a rainy weekend but thankfully we made it outside and all is good! Lumi took her camera and we shared the long lens. We even spotted a couple of frogs and turtles.
2026-06-05
2026-06-04
Out for a short walk after the rain.
Had this post ready a couple hours ago – then thought I might write some more. Now it is 21:45 and I haven't written more – well this, but that was not the point. Same procedure most days…
2026-06-03
Observing light and shadow.
2026-06-02
A41, taken during a quick grocery run. You need cheese to make pizza, duh.
2026-06-01
The K in coworking is right next to my desk. Very productive morning today. Spent the afternoon outside with the kids. Suvi had her first school visit. Slowly but surely she's starting to get excited.
2026-05-31
More planting – this time in our backyard. (Got some surplus sunflowers yesterday.)
2026-05-30
Garden party at kindergarten. Lots of helpers to do some planting, paint benches and play houses, hang out and eat together.
2026-05-29
Hammocks and ice cream. I love that we are at a point where the children just go outside on their own with the neighbor kids and hang out. (Literally 😂)
Also: Hi, to the guy I talked to briefly earlier about Leicas. Totally forgot to ask your name! Say hello if you read this! 😊
2026-05-28
Into the backyard.
2026-05-27
Nice evening walk. Really liked the wispy (Cirrus?) clouds.
2026-05-26
2026-05-25
Out early today to avoid the upcoming heat. I guess the pony appreciated the timely visit – I assume he's not a fan of the high temperatures either.
2026-05-24
Visited Villa Hügel with Daniel today. We thought: A park with lots of trees might work in these harsh (as in way too hot) weather conditions. And it kinda did! We moved from shade to shade and also had a look inside the villa. But most importantly: Dedicated photography time! 🙌
Update: Daniel took a Polariod.
2026-05-23
Observing color.
2026-05-22
2026-05-21
2026-05-20
Yesterday I opted to share two color images. But I got more parrots! The specimen above is not super colorful anyway, so monochrome works perfectly this time. Again, pretty similar lighting conditions. I love the structure of the feathers in the second image. (BTW: The 55-200 mm is a totally underrated lens in the Fujifilm portfolio. I should use it more often!) The third photo is a pretty obvious shot, but I strive not for the obvious, that's why I like the first one as a great opener. It is more mysterious.
2026-05-19
I love Gruga in the early morning. I have the park almost to myself. Sometimes the ongoing maintenance is a bit annoying, since it mostly means some kind of loud machinery is being handled – but other than that I am very undisturbed. And the animals are not yet exhausted from hordes of kids banging at their enclosure. The parrots were very alert this morning and the light was also quite nice. Originally photographed in black and white – as I always do – but in the end I decided to go with color here, especially because of the second image. I can appreciate a little color once in a while…