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Cooking Project #3 – Züri Gschnätzlets

Hello there! Today I’ve got one pic and two recipes for you! The Züri Gschnätzlets (swiss german for sliced meat Zürich style) is a well-known speciality in Zürich. There are tons of different family...

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Cooking Project #4 – Chili con carne

So here we go again! Another recipe, another picture. I really like hot dishes… so I decided to cook a flaming hot chili con carne and share it with you. Yeah, hispterish, isn’t it? The picture above...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture

After seeing a lot of blogers participating in the weekly photo challenge from The Daily Post, I decided to join in the game and submit my first entry. The goal is to publish a photo according to the...

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Cooking project #5 – Quick ‘n’ easy Sandwich

Weekend was over way too fast and the next has yet to come… Meanwhile, we work ourselves through this week, hoping that the next Friday will soon be reality while often (at least me) neglecting to eat...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern

Patterns… Everywhere! This week’s photo challenge sent me on a trip through my stock of pictures I’ve taken. Early on, I liked photographs that depicted certain patterns. I prefer simple patterns over...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

Interestingly, a lot of people seem to associate the word “escape” with something positive. At least, you’ll find a lot of really beautiful pictures of romantic beaches and other scenic landscapes, if...

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Traffic light

So I got a bit bored and started fooling around in the kitchen. After cooking a little something, I asked myself what kind of photos I could take in the kitchen. As I wasn’t really in the mood to...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: In the Background

“In the background” was this week’s theme for the weekly photo challenge and I had to think of the expression “pulling the strings (in the background)” when I read about the challenge. After giving up...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says “Civil Protection”

Hi there, this is my contribution for this week’s photo challenge, for which, according to the daily post, I had to share a photo with a sign and explain what it says. This sleeve belongs to a Swiss...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

This week’s theme was “fleeting”. For me, it means movement, change and fugacity. Things you will witness at a train station. The picture was taken with my OM-D at the train station in Lucerne.  It was...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves

“Curves” was this week’s theme for the weekly photo challenge. My contribution for this challenge is a rather abstract picture of a sunset I took about two years ago. If I recall it correctly, it was...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: The world through my eyes

This week’s photo challenge was to show a picture of the world through my eyes. I would like to think that every time I post a picture on this blog, I actually share with you the world through my...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Companionable

The last few weeks, I had a lot to do and unfortunately not much time to focus on photography or the blog. That’s one reason why I was only posting for the weekly photo challenges. Luckily, I will soon...

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La Ciotat, the beginning of a series

Isn’t it wonderful? A beautiful beach, the hot sun and my camera gear. What else would I want during my one week vacation in southern France? I’ll be posting some of my pictures I took during my...

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Fireworks over La Ciotat

Imagine: You are sitting in a nice bistro at the harbour of a lovely little town in southern France, cherishing a nice cup of coffee with your gorgeous girlfriend, when a loud “BOOOM” suddenly shakes...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour

For this week’s challenge, I decided to post two pictures.  The first one was taken in Lebanon  (near Chabrouh) about four years ago, where we hiked up the hill to the steel cross with a few friends...

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Chantier naval de La Ciotat

La Ciotat was once host to one of the big shipyards in France. Only the old rusty cranes remind the passing visitor of this prosperous past. At some point, they had to shut down the shipyard and what...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh

This week’s theme for the weekly photo challenge was “Fresh”. Well, lemons are usually quite fresh, aren’t they? This picture was taken in blatant boredom while I was sitting at home, wondering what I...

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Postcards from La Ciotat

The series about my trip to southern France continues with some postcard views of La Ciotat. The first picture was taken during the blue hour, which is the period of twilight where there is neither...

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The streets of La Ciotat

Every time a photographer gets tired of taking the same old and boring pictures of landmarks and postcard motives, he tries to think of ways to find other motifs. One way to do so is by engaging in...

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