2024-04-30

Just met this little fella during my evening walk.

2024-05-01

Family trip to Gruga this morning. We've been here dozens of times (come to think of it, it's probably rather hundreds of times) but we are still finding areas we have not exhaustively explored. I took out the 56mm 1.2 again. It is my favorite Fuji lens – besides the OG 35mm 1.4.

2024-05-02

Observing light and shadow.

2024-05-03

It will be the girls and me for the weekend while Ulya is having some well-deserved me-time away from the chaos. Image from two days ago, when the weather was still nice.

2024-05-04

Someone left their trampoline at the park. I shot this image using my Leica 35mm on the X-T5 with an adapter, so the aperture reading is wrong. But focusing works better that I expected, though I still very much prefer the range finder for manual focusing.

2024-05-05

Another Kidical Mass ride took place in Essen yesterday. First time the girls took their own bikes. Lumi cycled the whole distance (a bit over 10 km), Suvi hitched a ride (aka we loaded her and her bike onto the Tern) after about one km. I think that many people felt a bit overwhelming still.

2024-05-06

Waiting for her turn.

2024-05-07

Walking home in the rain.

2024-05-08

All the snails she finds on the sidewalk will be helped to safety.

2024-05-09

Based on the images I post on this blog, it would seem that I only photograph my children from behind. Which is obviously not the case. 😊 But I like capturing the world form their perspective. With scenes like the one above, I usually take several shots, one of my children in focus, and another one – depending if it makes for an interesting image – focused on the thing they are looking at. (In this actual case, they were looking at an airship, but I couldn't get it and them into the same frame. Wrong focal length…)

2024-05-10

We visited the zoo in Duisburg today. I don't know, I always feel heavy-hearted in these places, especially in the presence of the more intelligent/sentient animals, like elephants. Anyways, I think the kids enjoyed seeing some of these animals for the first time (aside from in books of course). Watching the little suricates being busy was their favorite.

2024-05-11

Went inline skating with the kids today (finally!) and I didn't take the camera. So I'll share two more images from yesterday's visit to the zoo, from the kids' perspective.

2024-05-12

Smelling the Mother's Day bouquet of flowers. In other news I made it to Düsseldorf for beyond tellerrand, which will happen on Monday and Tuesday. It is sold out, but there is a waiting list.

2024-05-13

A couple of impression from day one at beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2024. Speakers today were Chris Campe, Adrienne Tacke, Oliver Schöndorfer, David de Léon, Maggie Appleton and Stefan Sagmeister. Exhausted, but pretty happy with the results. See y'all tomorrow!

2024-05-14

Impressions from day two at beyond tellerrand 2024 in Düsseldorf, featuring speakers Laura Kalbag, Ferdinand Ulrich, Sophie Tahran, Natalya Shelburne, Michael Trautmann and David Thomas. The full gallery will be available in the coming days, so stay tuned! Thank you Marc for having me – it is alway such a pleasure!

2024-05-15

While editing my #btconf images I found these in-between, backstage, during-the-breaks moments, which I like very much.

2024-05-16

I took photos during lunch break as well. (Just can't help it, I guess.) In this case: Daniel's reflection in a piece of mirror sticking in a fence, across the street from Capitol Theater (the beyond tellerrand venue).

2024-05-17

Talking about reflections: Hotel elevator = obligatory mirror selfie. Also, I just released the full gallery of beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2024 images. Back to the regular schedule of daily life documentary tomorrow.

2024-05-18

Kitchen table acupuncture. Our friend Stephen is visiting from Scotland and he brought his needles.

2024-05-19

Out on inline skates again, so it didn't bring a (proper) camera. This means that I made the above images with my iPhone. I must say that it does quite a nice job in bright daylight: It produces very sharp images and the

2024-05-20

Sighted that zeppelin again.

2024-05-21

Time for some more scooter adventures. Also, we just made it home just in time before the rain came down.

2024-05-22

Observing color during a quick evening walk.

2024-05-23

Done for the day. 😊

2024-05-24

Went out for rather late today to get some groceries and found this A41 reflection. Reminded me of the Burj Khalifa photo from a couple of weeks ago – well, aside from the 800m in height difference.

2024-05-25

Observing color.

2024-05-26

Making a frog out of pearls.

2024-05-27

Leaves in the rain, shot from the balcony.

2024-05-28

At the playground, watching the clouds (and planes) moving quickly across the sky.

2024-05-29

Out, grocery shopping.

2024-05-30

Introducing her to the classics.

2024-05-31

Charging. Kinda unfortunately positioned, if you ask me…

2024-06-01

Mario Cart tournament and my daughter is dressed for the occasion. 😊

2024-06-02

We found a hole in the street. I was out on skates again. Felt comfortable enough to bring a proper camera this time.

2024-06-03

Passed by lake Baldeney today and obviously had to stop and take some photographs. Completely forgot to mentioned it here: A couple of days ago, this turned into the second longest streak of daily posting. 😱 I had to update the code, that calculates the stats a little, to take the current streak into account.

2024-06-04

Some days (well, probably most days) I do not really know what to write about down here below the image. That's probably why I chose to primarily share photographs! They not always speak for themselves, but they don't need to either. There is not always a story attached to them. Sometimes something just catches my eye, and then I take a photograph. That's it.

2024-06-05

Photography runs in the family.

2024-06-06

2024-06-07

We have to pass exactly four traffic lights on our way to kindergarten. I optimized the route over the years to avoid traffic lights as much as possible, because all of them are switched in a way, that is pretty pedestrian/cyclist hostile and all in favor of cars. And I hate waiting.

2024-06-08

Meet Taco. We – well, Ulya and the girls – looked after him for a friend today. I think the idea of what it means to own and care for a dog, has become a lot clearer for my daughters. (No, we won't get a dog.)