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  • Back from Tansania

    Testing if it is easy to export lightroom images with metadata… Above is a foogalery, it works there, but it’s not what i want. Below is a Meow Gallery which has an EXIF lightbox.

  • Zurifest 2023

    See here: https://blog.mantek.org/zurifest-2023-wakeboarding/

  • Flachsee in December

    Flachsee in December

    Sunday, December 11, we went to Flachsee again. Last time I was here was before the pandemic and my retina loosened itself during the walk around the lake, so I had not the fondest of memories. But this day, it was magical. Beautiful light, lot’s of birds (a flock of at least 60 geese and…

  • Windows… the end…

    I swear, this is the last time. The last time I come home, turn on the machine and it does not work. The last time I am spending hours trying to figure out “what changed since yesterday”. This time, System Restore.. failed Trying to recover from ActiveBackup (Synology) failed, because to create a restore disk…

  • Greifensee in September

    Greifensee in September

    I took my new 800mm lens out to Greifensee this morning. I am very pleased with the intial results. The lens is very light (for this kind of lens, still hurts after 30min holding it straight up :)) and incredible sharp.

  • The last Christmas present….

    The last Christmas present….

    The Ork Killrig. It took quiet a while to assemble and paint, but it was worth it. An amazing model, so much detail, so colorful and fun to finish.

  • Foxy Zurich

    Foxy Zurich

    This Saturday morning, my wife is looking out the window, across the street, to the field. We saw a white weasel there a few days ago, so we now keep a bit closer watch on it. She says: “is that a fox over there?”. We get the binoculars, and yes, it is. We keep observing…

  • A summer afternoon in the city

    Photograhing and ending up at the Prime Tower, once again.

  • Created my first set of Chaos Bikers for 40K

    They were old marine bikers that I had lying around and never painted, so I thought I convert them to 40K Chaos Space Marines, or at least paint them in the right fashion.

  • The mighty duck

    of Rapperswil. Today I went with the new Nikon Z 7 II to Rapperswil to do some bird watching. It was miserable, grey and foggy. But I am rather pleased with the percentage of good photos, much better than my outings with the old system.