florian.photo

The only way to live in this heat is with your feet in (very) cold water. Admittedly, the pool used to feel much larger when the kids were much smaller, but it still gets the job done. Thank God this new garden has a tap, so filling it up was a lot easier. Stay hydrated people!

I am melting over here. 🫠 Photo taken during my bike commute. I want to finally give Darktable a good try. Cliff shared a link to darktable.info, which looks like it is a good resource to get started. I am aware that I won't replicate my current workflow in two weeks. It will take more time. But, if I never start, I'll be stuck with Adobe forever. I also want to put Aphera through its paces. I am not sure how I feel about the way it works from my brief, initial tests – basically layering a…

Too hot to sleep. Might as well watch the match. 🤷‍♂️

Ulya bought a fan today, the little one put it to use right away. It is too hot to do anything in the afternoon. Just brutal.

Lumi was off school early today because of the excessive heat. It is a pity that there doesn't seem to be a direct translation for the German "Hitzefrei" (which basically means "free because of heat"). I think she used her time very wisely.

Bike ride with the little one. (The forest was nice and cool, so that's where we went.)

More music at Fête de la Musique. All the locations were pretty close by. But the kids did not fancy the high temperatures, so we didn't last long.

Gruga Park Vibes. 👉 View 4 more images

I am sure I'll be out to shoot some images today, but I have a couple left from yesterday, which I don't want to let go to waste. Also I didn't want to mix the horizontal with the vertical images. In general I don't like vertical images that much on the blog, very much for an A4 zine for example though, but I digress. It will be incredibly hot today, so I am glad I have this one task off the list this early! Have a great day! 👉 View 4 more images

Nice evening walk. Took different route than usual to get a change of scenery. I think I might do this more often. Man, I can't wait for kindergarten to be over. Filled another spot on the infection bingo card today. 👉 View 3 more images

Today's school festival had various games and prizes. The ones involving water were quite popular due to the high temperatures.

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. 😊 👉 View 3 more images

Early morning walk. I imagine the bird on top of the aviary talking shit to the poor fellows inside. 👉 View 2 more images

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.

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.

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! 🤯

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!

Observing color.

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. 👉 View 2 more images

Crossing the tracks.

At the playground.

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. 👉 View 11 more images

Discarded. Wrote a post about using a proper camera.

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… 👉 View 2 more images

Observing light and shadow.

A41, taken during a quick grocery run. You need cheese to make pizza, duh.

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.

More planting – this time in our backyard. (Got some surplus sunflowers yesterday.)

Garden party at kindergarten. Lots of helpers to do some planting, paint benches and play houses, hang out and eat together.

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 😂)