Say hello to Zoe! Our little baby girl was born on September 13th and it’s definitely been two unique and emotional weeks with her. Mother and daughter are both feeling well and we’re super happy!
Love you, “kleine Kröte”!
June 2017 – Photo Journal
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Summer was in full swing and we chose to spent most of our time inside or near the water. Expect beach photos.
The next set of photos. This is as current as it gets!
May 2017 – Photo Journal
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We arrived in Croatia and spent most of the month on the Istria peninsula in the north. We very much welcomed the milder temperatures, and enjoyed the region’s picturesque little towns.
Kaboom!
April 2017 – Photo Journal
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A trip to Utrecht and the North Sea. Düsseldorf. Some big news. And the way down south.
The April lot.
March 2017 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
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One whole month spent in Germany. We lived in 2 different apartments and occasionally in the camper. This post features Remscheid, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, and a little bit in between.
A pile of new photos.
February 2017 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
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In the shortest month of the year Nicole and I travelled to the UK to spend time with my brother Alex and his partner Sarah in England. They invited us to their newish apartment in Woking near London.
Yay, the February photos are here!
January 2017 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
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As apparent from the previous entry, the year started on the Spanish island of Mallorca, where my Dad and his wife were in progress of moving to. The second half of the month was spent in the Düsseldorf area again.
95 new photos to look at. If you want.
December 2016 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
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In December, we returned to Germany. We spent almost two weeks in the north before driving back home to Düsseldorf. It was the month of seeing friends and family again. And then, the year ended with the start of yet another trip.
More photos!
November 2016 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
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The days were getting noticeably shorter (thanks, standard time!) and it was getting ever colder. In fact, November featured an unusually early snowstorm, temporarily burying Stockholm under a thick white cover. This was a unique experience and we enjoyed the remaining two weeks in the city very much.
New journal entry!
October 2016 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
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Driving through northern Finland into Sweden, making our way towards Stockholm. And after a lot of nature and small towns, a big city was a welcome change. Especially such a beautiful one as this.
New entry in the journal.
On my new photo journal website
I’d like to write about why I created my new photo journal website.
I have been wanting a site where I can post lots of photos at once for quite some time now. I have been enjoying these longer, chronological posts by other photographers, and it’s become my favourite way of consuming images. For me, it’s way more enjoyable to really take my time and look at a single person’s photographs, than consuming single images of several different photographers – which is usually the default on social media. It’s more like sitting down with a photography book of a single artist.
Currently I’m very much into personal and documentary photography, and I think longer posts lend themselves better to this style.
Plus, I enjoy creating these posts with photos covering a longer time span much more.
I also wanted to have full control over my photos, my site and the way I’d like to present and archive them. I wanted something Indie. And hosting your own site is the only way to do so.
Now I can have everything the way I want: no limit on the number of images, and simply a long page where you can scroll through full-size pictures – chronologically and without the need to click or tap anything. I can also easily (batch-)download all the images and posts, since it’s simply an FTP download of a static website.
It’s interesting how I more and more go back to hosting my own sites again and also code lots of it myself. That’s how I started out in the late 90s. But I think it’s the only way I can control the things I share on the web long-term. It feels like my photos found a real “home” again. A homepage for my photos. This feels very right to me.
Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
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I haven’t posted any new photos in a while now. That’s because I’ve gotten a little tired of the social media style of posting one or a handful of photos at a time.
But I haven’t stopped taking lots and lots of – mostly analog – photos. And I’ve also been busy working on a new home for them.
So, may I present: my new photo journal.
On this new site, I plan to create one entry per month. Each does and will include lots of images, documenting what I do and see.
Currently I’ve added August and September 2016, which contain mostly new photos, starting with only a few known ones I’ve uploaded here in recent posts.
Dalsnibba, Norway. August 2016.
Climbing the Galdhøppingen, Norway’s highest mountain. Good weather, fantastic walk, stunning scenery. Thanks Jotunheimen, that was much better!
Tree: 1. Crybaby bumper: 0.