Sunrise And Sunset Magic

(Werbung, advertisement) It’s 4 o’clock in the morning. Outside it is still pitch black und the world is fast asleep. Not even the birds have begun to perform their daily morning concert. But what’s that? There’s that one crazy person, rubbing their eyes, yawning, after their alarm had just ripped them out of deep, beautiful dreams. [...]

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Aotearoa – Your Questions

Shortly after we got back from Aotearoa, New Zealand last October I asked you what you would like to read about if I put together a new journal entry about my home away from home. It took me a wee while but here’s me answering your questions and showing you some really old photos from [...]

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The Baltic Sea

To let the salty air fill my lungs. To feel the sand between my toes. To let the rough breeze tousle my hair. And to let my self be engulfed by the vastness of the sea. March is a rather gloomy month, at least in Germany. Rain is falling every other day, the sun is hiding [...]

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Summer Time In Lana

(Werbung/advertisement as I was invited by Lana Tourism) The warm season invites you to spend your time outdoors. It’s a good thing there are a hundred different things you can do in Lana, South Tyrol to get the most out of a Summers day. Out of these 100 things I’m passing 9 on to you, which [...]

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Thoughts On Sustainability

Lately I haven’t really mentioned our Planet, conservation or the climate crisis on social media, at least not as much as I used to. It’s not because I stopped caring. I still do care. A lot. So much, that when the day is already a bad one, I start crying just thinking about everything that is [...]

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Say No To Plastic

Oh my frustration level is almost always high when I go for a grocery run. One time I saw a woman putting a plastic bag of crisps into one of those single-use plastic bags that supermarkets provide for fruit and vegetables – just to have something to carry those crisps around in. I got mad. So [...]

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10 Places Scotland Didn’t Conceal From Us

‘Rain, rain go away. Come again another day’ that’s what I felt like singing many a time during our Scotland travels. But the rain didn’t feel like leaving at all, and it sure came back another day. Almost every day. Moody weather usually doesn’t get me down and I do like dramatic clouds, cold winds and [...]

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Autumn Days In Lana

(Werbung/advertisement as I was invited by Lana Tourism) There’s Autumn and then there’s Autumn in Lana and once you have experienced it you will begin to wonder why you haven’t been travelling to South Tyrol every October for years. This year in early Spring I already got to spend three amazing days in Lana, a time [...]

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How a 50mm prime lens literally broadens your horizon

(Werbung/advertisement) Back in 2016 when I visited New Zealand for the third time a photographer’s worst nightmare came true: my camera broke. Now I could tell you all about how I was desperately standing in the dim light of dusk, weeping bitterly, surrounded by the most wonderful landscapes that I could no longer capture with my [...]

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On The Road In Southern England

(Werbung/advertisement) „You want to go to Britain at the end of February? Surely it’s only going to rain!“ That’s probably the general perception of British weather, isn’t it? Same as the cliché that us Germans only run around in ‚Lederhosn‘, carrying a mug of beer wherever we go. Well, I am sorry to disappoint you but [...]

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