Late Fall 2025—The last few months have been busier than usual, and I’ve ended up neglecting posting here, so… It’s time to write what is going on.
Back in the summer, I submitted some images for a photography event about Berlin-Neukölln, and I won first place even though I didn’t know it was a competition. I thought I was submitting a picture for a future calendar, and that is happening as well. You can get one from the good people at Bürgerstiftung Neukölln.
In late August, I took a bus to Copenhagen with my bike next to me so I could continue my trip to Oslo. After almost 1000 km, I managed to reach Oslo after dreaming about it for years. I couldn’t be happier about it, and this was truly one of the best trips of my life.
In October, one of my cats got sick. Natasha had breathing issues in the past, but she always recovered. This time, after a few weeks of medicine, we discovered some dark spots on her lung, and we had to let her go at the end of November. The house feels empty now.
And this is where we are now.
Spring 2025—In early May, I took my cameras to Croatia for the first time, and it was an outstanding experience that I have been sharing since then. I think it was the first new country I visited since 2021, when I visited Greece.
I wrote my first film review article, and it was interesting to travel somewhere with the idea of exploring how a film handles different lighting and colors. I will do that again.
Besides that, I have been taking pictures around Berlin and getting excited about my future bike trip to Oslo in early September. The weather is improving, I started a new cycling page here, and the days are getting longer, so I’ve been able to take more bike rides around town, which is always beneficial. I even went on my first Sternfarht here in Berlin!
Winter 2025—Since Meta decided to change some of Instagram’s rules, I started researching other photography-sharing platforms.
This is how I started posting pictures on Pixelfed. I’m still trying to figure out how to use it smartly and how different it is from Instagram, but so far, I’m happy with the results.
Besides, Berlin is having a cold winter; some days, it is covered in snow. Since this doesn’t happen every year, I have been taking photo walks in the snow whenever possible!
What else? I’m considering what to share in a Frame Travel Roam Capture newsletter. And I’m looking forward to warmer days since I want to start bike riding on the road again. Let’s see what spring will bring.
Autumn 2024 — I went on my first bike trip early in September. It took me a week to go from Berlin to Copenhagen, and it was fantastic. I loved the daily rides and pictures I took; the experience will stay with me forever.
Besides that, I found my way around black-and-white film development. I’ve developed a few film rolls, and I’m happy with the learning process and how it feels to go out for a photo walk and be able to develop my own film later.
I need to make more printed zines, so let’s see what I can do about that.
Late Spring 2024 — Summer is coming, and Berlin is already getting warm, so I hope I can survive that. I’m trying to enjoy the sunny weather by taking my bike out as often as possible. Let’s see if I can try bike-packing in the next few months.
Regarding photography, I have been posting film pictures I took back in 2023 on my Instagram account and trying to write about this here. I took too many pictures last year, which took me too long to scan, edit, and enjoy.
I also keep posting them on my Flickr and Lomography.
My plans for the future are to learn how to develop black-and-white films, and I’m curious to learn more about photography. I have been reading Ansel Adams’ books, which have changed how I see some aspects of photography, and I love it.
Since the beginning of the year, I have been fixing and rewriting the articles I wrote when this was still called Fotostrasse. The blog migration was more complicated than I had in mind, but it’s done now.
Also, one of my goals now is to have one new article every five days, and this has been working well so far, which is something I’m really proud of.