292/365
291/365: Nicole, my mum and I went to Metropol cinema to watch “Ich und Kaminski”.
290/365: Bernd at his workshop.
He had an open day and a couple of people came along to see where and how he works and try out his Devil’s Choice guitars and basses.
289/365: The rare occurrence when I’m the chef.
288/365
287/365: Developing three rolls in a row.
286/365: Opeth live at Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal.
Fantastic concert at a great atmospheric venue. Epic!
(I was still feeling sick that day, but it was much better: no fever any more. But a seated concert like this was still most welcome.)
285/365: The tent/yurt we spent the night in. We arrived just before sunset the day before, and since this thing was already standing there, we didn’t bother pitching our tents and rather got on with cooking dinner instead.
And well, at least Andre spent the night there. I got sick that evening/night (nausea, diarrhoea, fever) and frequently had to get out of my sleeping bag. Which was way too cold. Luckily, the bathroom/toilet was in the adjacent restaurant. And there was also a small lobby, where it was warm. So, I spent most of the night there. Mostly not sleeping.
The next morning I only felt a little better, but not good enough for a whole day of walking with a heavy backpack. So unfortunately we had to cancel the last day of hiking. We took a taxi instead. And then it was still a few hours to drive back home.
Scanning negatives, listening to some thrash metal…
My 365-day photo project status
As you may have noticed I have stopped posting new photos to my 365 day photo project. The reason is simple: the photos – and particular the one from Monday last week – are stuck on a film that’s still not full. I’ve loaded a new film last week Sunday evening, at the end of our 3rd hiking day. Unfortunately, I got sick during that night, unable to continue hiking the next day. Hence, I only took a few film shots the next morning instead of having had a whole day of shooting ahead of me. So, I returned home with 30+ photos still left on the film. And I haven’t yet managed to fill it up. Hopefully, I’ll manage to do so by the end of the week though, and then everything will be posted here in quick succession.
Nobody Cares How Hard You Work
Will we ever decouple perceived effort and long hours with our rewards system?
In 2011, a study [pdf link] by the Harvard Business School researchers Ryan Buell and Michael Norton found that people using a flight-search website actually preferred to wait longer for search results—provided they could watch a detailed progress display to see the site “working hard” to canvas each airline’s database.
This would be no more than an intriguing quirk of consumer behavior—if it weren’t for the fact that we apply the same twisted standards to ourselves. Call it the “Effort Trap:” it’s dangerously easy to feel as though a 10-hour day spent plowing through your inbox, or catching up on calls, was much more worthwhile than two hours spent in deep concentration on hard thinking, followed by a leisurely afternoon off. Yet any writer, designer or web developer will tell you it’s the two focused hours that pay most—both in terms of money and fulfillment.
284/365: On a stick.
The third day – the longest with more than 25km – I had to walk on a stick at some point. Because – in addition to the blisters on my feet – my right hip started hurting. The walking stick helped.
And man, what a day. Much too long for my taste. And then barely any water along the way.
We arrived at the next campground completely exhausted just before sunset.
283/365: Hiking
On the second day, we walked more than 20km before we arrived at the camp in the late afternoon.
282/365: Camping inside the Schmidtburg ruins.
Andre and I were hiking the Soonwaldsteig. This was our camp the first night. After travelling by train from Bingen to Kirn, we hiked 15+ km to get here. The sun was just setting, we had pitched our tents. And luckily you could buy some beer. :-)
From front to back: 2 spare beers, filter water bottle, my tent, Andre, Schmidtburg.
Kodak Tri-X @ 400 ISO. Developed in Ilford DD-X.
The reason for my little hiatus here, is that I was hiking the Soonwaldsteig with Andre the last extended weekend. And I was only shooting film. Then I got sick.
So, photos are queuing up a little bit here. I’m scanning the negatives from the trip now, so that I can start sharing again shortly.