A new store dedicated to analog photography opened this summer in Hamburg.

This site was based on the long abandoned Koken framework. I had planned to migrate the content sometime in future to the static site generator hugo. This was not supposed to happen before my theme for hugo had most of the functionality required for a photo blog in place. But then my wife received a damage claim for supposedly violating GDPR rights with her website. That claim was based on the suspicion that loading fonts for her website from Google would expose private data (the ip address) of unsuspecting visitors to Google, thereby violating their GDPR rights. Fixing her site was easy. But the old version of this site referenced fonts hosted by Google as well. Fixing that would have been more difficult since I don’t know my way around Koken and the PHP language it was based on. Fortunately, I had most of the content for the site already converted. As a result you are now looking at a new version of this site that may be lacking some features but is not reliant on Google fonts anymore.

Not much to write about 2021, at least not regarding photography. But I finally managed to add SSL to this site, so you should see a little lock symbol in the address bar. And I updated my photography related app Yafra.

I’am listening to Linton Kwesi Johnson’s “Inglan Is A Bitch”, a song from the musical gem “Bass Culture”, I discovered only recently. The track might as well be titled “2020 is a bitch”. Personally, the year hasn’t been particularly bad for me(I am/feel privileged). But being in the Covid-19 pandemic for 6 months now has put the spotlight on so many shortcomings in our society that make me feel depressed. There is an ever growing gap between people like me, who are doing well and those that are being hit hard by the economic downturn. Global warming isn’t an abstract thing in the distant future, it is impacting my immediate surroundings already, but people are happily buying bigger cars like there’s no tomorrow. How is all of this going to turn out?

These are some of the pictures from a three week cruise on a container ship

One month in the Hawai’i archipelago provided some expected and some unexpected photo opportunities. Among the expected were beach, waves and surfers. Unexpected were rain forest next to dry eroding cattle pastures, wild chicken all over Kauai and an invitation to a sacred ceremony at Mauna Kea Protestors Camp.