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My photo project for 2025
For 2024 I decided to get back to still life photography and now at the end of the year I am quite disappointed by what effort I made or rather didn’t make. Just a few posts with just a few shooting sessions, not much time and effort devoted. When starting that project, I decided not to limit myself by planning any topics or assignments. I thought it would be easier then, but I am afraid the contrary was true. The free arrangement did not motivate me enough. I always struggle to come up with interesting ideas for photos, I find it difficult to start, and it supported postponing and avoiding…
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Embrace, my word for 2025
A few days ago I found myself reflecting on how I’ve grown more willing to embrace the imperfections in objects, actions, people and circumstances. Accepting flaws has been my life-long struggle but as I am getting older, I find it a little bit easier to accept the faulty side of things. As I need to deepen this practice of acceptance and the word EMBRACE speaks to me loudly these days, I nominated it to become my word for the year 2025. I chose this word once before, back in 2017, but then it was about embracing myself – who I am and who I’m not. This time it’s directed outward, toward the…
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Tour of three lakes
Austria – day 4 – tour of Styrian Bodensee, Hüttensee and Obersee. Not far from Schladming, there is another popular destination, a lake in the woods called Styrian Bodensee, from which you can continue up to the lake Hüttensee and even further up to the lake Obersee. The Bodensee is a place where you can stay and relax, eat in the restaurant, stroll around the lake, paddle on a boat… Or you can climb up the hills and visit the other lake(s), which is challenging but definitely worth the effort. The only drawback is that you may have to go the same way back, and I never like that. We arrived…
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Up to Dachstein massif
Austria – day 3 – Dachstein massif adventure. Who would not want to see the world from the bird’s perspective? And if you can let a cable car take you as high as possible in the Dachstein massif so that you can see its awesome views from above, you may even experience that perspective for a while. Well, let me pause here… as to get up there is just a part of the success. The other one is having luck regarding weather because on a cloudy and misty day, you cannot see much, and unfortunately that was our case. The trip was planned, the tickets were reserved and that gave…
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On trail round Rittisberg
Austria – day 2 – late afternoon. When we were coming back from Silberkarklamm to Schladming, there was still enough time to make one more stop along the way. Thus we found ourselves on the Rittisberg mountain, which we reached by a cable car from Ramsau am Dachstein. From the upper station, we just followed quite an easy scenic trail around the mountain, with a game for children to make them enjoy the walk, some nice views for adults… …and several environmental art-in-nature exhibits, such as these: You can find more info about the exhibits and their creators on the Landart Rittisberg website. The thoughts on the exhibits – what…
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Flower, ribbon and crate
Getting back to playing with simple still life compositions… their light and shadows… shapes and colours… Sometimes a small difference makes a huge impact.
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Through Silberkarklamm
Austria – day 2 – hiking through the Silberkarklamm, which is a mountain pass featuring a wild brook meandering between the rocks. The path following the brook leads you up to the hut Silberkarhütte, wooden stairs are supporting your steps in some parts. You have to pay a fee to enter the pass and if there are more people, you need to be patient, especially at the beginning when everybody starts climbing the first stairs. Later the line spreads and you can enjoy the atmosphere much better. We visited the pass on Monday morning and there were not many people except our group, I guess on weekends and afternoons the…
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Up to Hofpürglhütte
Back to Austria – day 1, when we were taken to Filzmoos and then a bit further to Almsee. That one is a very small lake, much smaller than we expected, but there is an interesting building on the way to it. It is the Chapel of Maria am Steineggl and surprisingly it’s quite new, having been consecrated in 2016. Above the door, the words are: “In der lebendigen Natur geschieht nichts das nicht in Verbindung mit dem Ganzen steht” which could be translated to English as “Nothing happens in living nature that is not connected with the whole“. Thought-provoking, isn’t it? I was prepared to be looking for it in some…
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Having visited Schladming
Many years ago, at the time of my university studies, I used to have a friend in Austria. Then our ways parted and that meant the end of traveling to the country for me. Yet I had so many nice memories of the places we visited and eventually they resulted in vacation plans for this year. My husband and I enjoyed a week’s stay in Schladming area in Styria, where one can go hiking in the mountains with their many faces depending on weather and surroundings, as well as experience the peacefulness of the town. Actually, the experience made me start a new category here on the blog. The category…
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Power poles
I find it refreshing … to look for beauty where it is not obvious, … to look for beauty that is not exactly beautiful but it is interesting,… to look for beauty that has inherent significance. Shooting power poles may not sound exiting but see the shapes and atmosphere…
