A country of skyscrapers
Andong, South Korea, 20 June 2026 70 percent of the country consists of mountains, I1m told, and thus cannot be inhabited. Needless to say, some still try yet most seem to live in skyscrapers.
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On Framing
Santa Cruz do Sul, 5 February 2026 This picture shows part of the new annex of the school where I regularly teach intensive courses in English conversation during the Brazilian summer holidays. The photo, to me, is an attempt at catching the sunlight that at this very moment fell on the school patio. Needless to say, only for a brief moment the scene looked like that.
A close-up
Andong, South Korea, 20 June 2026 You can't see what you see here with your naked eye. The camera (especially when using the zoom feature) shows me a world beyond my natural ability to see.
Arriving in Gyeongju
Gyeongju, South Korea, 18 June 2026 This is what you get to see when you step out of the train station in Gyeongju. If you want to tell people that they do not matter as individuals, you make them live as faceless objects in concrete jungles.
Camarões amarelos
Gyeongju, South Korea, 17 June 2026 Ir was a great surprise to see these flowers in a flower shop in Gyeongju because so far I've only seen them in Brazil. Yet another lesson that life is teaching us: flowers know no political entities (which are arbitrary despite o ur historical reasonings), they only know climates.
Framing a Façade
Gyeongju, South Korea, 17 June 2026 Framing is not just a question of what to leave in or out of the frame; it is also about what I decide to focus on. Moreover, it is a creative act by which I present my personal way of seeing.
In Maribor, Slovenia
Maribor, Slovenia, 10 November 2025 I remember how surprised I was that hardly a youngster seemed to speak German (the Austrian border is close). English was the language of choice, a nowadays common phenomenon, I learned. My handy-camera is not suitable for pictures of buildings (as one can see) yet I simply couldn't resist the glassfront that intrigued me.