#110 View From A Hike To Skalka

Merry Christmas everyone… This is a shot from one of the viewpoints halfway up the trail to Skalka. Steep climb… SUPER cold air… and legs burning… but views like this make every step worth it.

Merry Christmas everyone… This is a shot from one of the viewpoints halfway up the trail to Skalka. Steep climb… SUPER cold air… and legs burning… but views like this make every step worth it.

Hiking to Skalka… It’s an easy hike — until it isn’t. I’ve done it plenty of times, and every time I forget how steep that first part actually is. You start walking thinking, “Yeah, this will be chill,” and after…

Over the next few days — over Christmas — I’m going to share a few photos from the Czech Republic. While visiting my family, catching up with old friends, and walking through the places I grew up in, I took…

Snow. And lots of it. Winter is in full swing in the Czech Republic. This was taken in the mountains up north… just a short hike from the Polish border. A quiet, beautiful day.

There’s a line I read the other night that sucker-punched me right in the gut. It said: “How can I make sure I squeeze everything out of life instead of having life squeeze everything out of me?” Boom. Read that…

I was testing long exposures near the Sittard-Geleen hospital — trying to catch those streaks of light from cars flying past. I wasn’t using any filters. No fancy gear. Just a tripod and a bit of patience. And as I…

Stadspark, Sittard. Sunrise. Panorama made with a Sigma Art 19mm — 9 shots stitched together. One of those mornings that makes you forget everything else. The kind that reminds me why I always carry a camera. You never know when…

One of those morning that take your breath away. Taken in Limbright at sunrise.

Something hit me recently. I read this line: “All the shit we collect throughout our lives means nothing. We come with nothing. We leave with nothing. The shit you buy will get sold, given away, or scrapped. It makes more…

This shot wasn’t planned. I was walking home — tired, head full of noise — when the sky just EXPLODED. Everything around me was dead silent. The water didn’t move. No people. No traffic. Just me and a sky that…

This one’s special. My 100th shot upload. And it’s Monday! So… here I was… no crowd. Just me, a headlamp, and about 10 km of pure hiking trail ahead. I needed it to unwind. I needed to get lost in…

The path bends, but it doesn’t end. You can’t see what’s around the corner… but that’s where the magic usually hides. This shot’s a reminder: keep going, even when you don’t see the destination yet. I turned it into a…

Mushrooms are no joke. If you do them right… you’ll walk through a door most people don’t even know exists. If you do them wrong, you’ll meet the devil himself. There’s a fine line between revelation and ruin… and mushrooms…
An ambulance tore through my long exposure shot with blue lights flashing and siren howling. For a split second, I thought the photo was ruined. But then I realized… maybe I was exactly where I was meant to be.

A shot taken on a quiet morning walk through one of Sittard’s side streets. Somehow the shot looked better in Black and White.