everything's not lost.

Many times, work is not bad.
Sometimes, work is OK.
Sometimes, work is good.
Sometimes, work is even excellent.

For example, when I get the chance to combine a trip for work with a trip for myself. Like Hamburg. Or Sylt.

So imagine how cool it was that I had to bring someone to Venice airport and the next day was a national holiday in Austria? That’s right, I got to stay in Venice for a night and took some photos. Here’s just a tiny fragment:

Venice flickr set .

there are probably a hundred million ways to get lost in Venice. we tried at least half of them within the first five hours there.

I had the pleasure of being back to Sylt for the second time (first time photos here). This time I took some photos during the day because I had some time left in the afternoon before getting on the train to Hamburg. Photos were taken in Westerland and List.

Click here for the full flickr set.

I’m back from a four day work trip to Bulgaria along with four co-workers. Besides being surprisingly really productive we also used the evening for some activities, including bowling and on Friday we had some time left and got to see more of Sofia than just our office, a bar and the hotel – all of which who are usually within a two minute walk. Great chance to make use of my recently aquired Tokina 12-24mm F4 :)

Btw: Tomorrow I’ll be leaving again for Vienna to attend ACTB for my company. Never been at a trade fair, pretty curious about how it’s going to be. Anyone else going to be there? Give me a shout :)

And here’s the flickr set:

seen in an e-mail signature from a customer:

this is absolutely true :)

i know i print mails every now and then – still hardly ever – and only if there are a lot of things on it i have to cross off, but i know other people who print almost every e-mail and read them on paper instead of the screen. or they archive e-mails the old fashioned way instead of only moving it in their e-mail program. couldn’t believe it myself at first..

off to berlin, then sylt, then salzburg… all within 4 days.. that’s going to be fucking exhausting. have to get up at 4 in the morning tomorrow. but i managed to squeze my tripod into my suitcase and my camera in my backpack, maybe i have time for some late nightshots in sylt… that would be the only time that’s not fully planned. wish me luck btw :)