Picture of the Week

if you’ can’t find out, you might need to see the rest of the images here .

technorati tags: potw , red , riot

we’ve been skiing this weekend. in the morning, just before we hit the slopes i shot this panorama.

normally i tell a bit about the backstory of my potw’s , but this time i thought i’d make a little competition:

i have two questions concerning the image below. the first person to answers either one of those can choose between a game for the PSP (i’ve got several to chose from), a carte blanche for one post here in this blog or two drinks of his/her choice at the next blogger-meeting. the second and third person who answers correctly has to take what’s left :-)

this friday tinu and urs made a medieval diner in the castle of laupen. i’m in the process of uploading the images to flickr. but i liked the one below, also because it’s a good and funny snapshot of nina. it shows the second picture i shot with the shieldcam™ (the first is here ).

update: the rest of the images can be found here .

technorati tags: nina , ritterdinner

yesterday we’ve been to the zoo in zurich, mostly to see the masaola -hall (which was really impressive).

during our stroll through the zoo we passed at the enclosure of the otters where i snapped an image of this little fellow passing out in his bed (which is what i’m gonna do now).

oh, and i just sent the image over to the guys and gals of the cute overload …

technorati tags: cute , otter , zoo , zuerich

yesterday i spent a wonderful day in oberwald . ninas mother spends at least a week per year there, mostly with some friends. she invited nina and me for the weekend, to do some cross-country skiing .

it always amazes me how much snow you can find in oberwald. it makes the ugly slush you find here in bern feel even nastier.

oh, the cross-county skiing was great, thanks for asking. this time we tried with rented equipment, so we could skate, which is even better than doing it the classic way.

the past saturday i’ve spent a day in plan-les-ouates , near geneva at the first masters meeting of the swim team of plan-les-ouates . martin and me were the ones starting for bern , kurt and pesche started for basel .

the image below shows pesche going for 1:15.39 in 100m butterfly.

if you’d like to see the rest of the images, the you should proceed to this flickr-set of mine. and if you want to see what i did the weekend before, take a look at this set .

the past saturday we wanted to go skiing. when we arrived in adelboden at 20 past 9 in the morning we were informed that the whole ski-region is closed because of the guggifohn (a wind with velocities up to 246 km/h ). we then waited for more informations, but around 10:30 it was evident that the chairlifts and cablecars won’t open for the day.

we then decided to switch to the engstligenalp , but it turned out that the fohn was blowing there, too.

i’ve been dog-sitting two big dogs [1] of a friend this weekend. while going for a nice long walk we felt a bit like being in an episode of lost , but also had a rather good time. the image below was taken on this bridge .

[1]: esta in front, and diavolo on the back, they’re much easier to care for than they look.

after we had two performances in a row on saturday i drove all the way up to eywald to our new years eve-party. the conditions on the road were a bit tricky, so i arrived just in time for a toast to the new year.

the picture below shows me and nina with some sparkles. i really hope that we have a lot more of them in the new year!

the rest of the images i took are here .

yesterday evening pesche invited us for a diner in his new flat in basel. the image below was also shot on the train back home: bruni is trying to remember that certain line from abba . [1] oh, and the panorama turned out quite nice, too, you can see it as an 1.3mb-.mov-file here .

[1]: don’t ask, it only makes sense for him and me…