Picture of the Week

i was on the gurten this weekend. this was the rather spectacular sundown over the sleeping zone on friday evening.

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i spent the past weekend with renzo and eveline which competed in the gigathlon , a race across switzerland involving swimming, inline skating, road- and mountain-biking and running from locarno to basel via luzern. all the athletes and their supporters were housed in two camps, the picture below shows a panorama of the tents in the camp in airolo.

oh, and don’t blame me for the barrel distortion, i was standing on a heap of scrap wood, while i took that panorama and feared that i’m gonna fall down, so i could not align the pictures any nicer…

this wednesday the ja! [2] made a bike demonstration in bern. they wanted to protest against the newest plans to slash the free bike-parking around the main station here in bern . because of the thunderstorm that just started minutes after the demonstration was about to begin there were not too many people. i tried to document that with that panorama, which makes the waisenhausplatz look quite empty with that little bunch of protesters on it…

you might have seen the pictures already over at flickr , nonetheless i’m showing one here again, ‘cause i really like it, the moon fits nicely between the two wings of the luftstation. warm colors, nice lighting and shadows.

this week i got a letter with the picture below in it. some photographer took pictures of the people running at the gp . included was a payment order for 12.80 chf. i don’t think i’m gonna pay 13 bucks for a picture of me pulling up my pants, i’m gonna spend the same amount of bucks to a ticket to the movies tonight and a new towel :-)

summer is here: we were having a little boat trip down the aare, passing heavy waves , hanging around from bridges and then chillaxing in the eichholz .

the picture below shows manu and his sister just before jumping from the bridge (2.3 mb .mpg-movie) and lukas just hanging around below.

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i went to a brunch at julias place yesterday. she has a really nice backyard with a big bunch of flowers. those in the image below were well past their expiry date, but nice nonetheless. do you know their name? leave a comment.

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i’ve been diving this weekend, and christened my underwater-case for my digital camera. turns out that it’s quite hard to take good pictures in the Mediterranean in may. i’m sorting through all the pictures, but at a first glance i liked the one below quite good.

it’s sigi at about 16m below surface exiting the cave at the dive-site tres covas. looks like a thing from outer space.

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this wednesday i went to luzern, to spend a day reading comics and stare onto hundreds of panels from different comic authors.

i went to luzern quite early, so i could visit the offices of swissconnect and the velokurier luzern . the picture below shows the bridge going from the trainstation to the offices of sc and vkl. that silly guy just didn’t want to go away.

what a pity.