2026-08-05

Observing light and shadow. Didn't even need to leave the house for today's image. 🤷‍♂️ * * * We have a housewarming party coming up. Maybe I'll make some portraits if people are willing to play along.

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2026-08-04

Observing color while out late to grab an image for the blog.

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2026-08-03

Short evening walk. * * * Watched this nice [video about the #fuji 35mm 1.4 lens](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6887pLsQj9g), which is probably my favorite Fuji lens (the 56mm 1.2 is very close, though) – but not enough to get [a tattoo of its lens diagram](https://youtu.be/6887pLsQj9g?t=507). 😆

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2026-08-02

Climbing.

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2026-08-01

Relacing her shoes. (Had the ISO set to 12.800 accidentally for almost the whole day 🙄, but I didn't shoot that many images anyway.) * * * I finally found some time to work on the 10th anniversary zine. Still not sure I'll be able to finish or release it, but I sure would love to. Thinking about a different format for a change. (Maybe A5?) I selected around 100 images, more or less one for each month of blogging since August of 2016. It will be a very _loose_ sequence of photographs. Not sure whether I want to put them in chronological order, or find something else. Writing something with the images feels daunting and so much work. I'll need to wrap my head around this and soon.

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2026-07-31

Great morning at [Gruga](/collection/gruga) with the girls. I took lots of images, mostly of them, but also some around the park. On our way back we saw the German term _Gänsemarsch_ (walking in single file) [perfectly demonstrated](#slide-7) by at least two dozen geese. Their procession was pretty funny to watch.

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2026-07-30

Movie night. We watched [Civil War](https://letterboxd.com/sirpilz/film/civil-war-2024/). Very intense. Made me think of the [James Nachtwey documentary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Photographer) I saw a long time ago. Need to find it and watch it again. The family and I also went to IKEA earlier in the day. It rained.

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2026-07-28

Back at the office today.

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2026-07-27

Not sure I've ever seen a praying mantis outside of a terrarium before today. (Second image taken with the phone, because wrong lens (for macro photos) on the proper camera…)

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2026-07-26

The old brewery in Leimen, from inside the courtyard. There's a restaurant there, were we celebrated my dad's birthday yesterday. ([This one](/2024-07-22) from two years ago was taken from across the street.)

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2026-07-25

Short break at the rest area. Poor Suvi hates driving, she always gets carsick, so getting out of the car every hour or so is mandatory. I don't enjoy it either. I didn't mind driving long distances when I was _younger_ (😏), but now I am just annoyed how bad everyone else is driving. I wish taking the train (short notice) wasn't so incredibly expensive compared to taking the car.

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2026-07-24

Took out the roller skates today.

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2026-07-23

Evening walk to the _Kirmes_ grounds.

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2026-07-22

Totally forgot that I had taken a couple of images today, when I just remembered that I had to post something here. Taken on my way home from the office. This particular construction site is really annoying and there's no end in sight. At least I can ride around it on the sidewalk. So glad I don't need a car for my commute. I wonder if they'll fix the massive pothole in the street, while they're at it. [Kinda wish they wouldn't.](/2023-10-04#slide-2)

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2026-07-21

Not feeling it lately – the photo blogging, I mean. But I am pushing through. There will be brighter days with more motivation ahead, there always are. Lots of the same recently, same schedule, same streets, I need a change of scenery.

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2026-07-20

A tree. That's the post.

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2026-07-19

Went to the flower shop today (it is open on Sundays), which happens to be right across from the local airfield. Spotted the [airship](/2024-05-09).

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2026-07-17

Balloons. I've had this image in my "photos for the blog" folder for a couple of weeks. That does not usually happen, because I mostly post images from the same day. But today I only photographed my kids being very happy about vacation starting. Oh, and it was the very last day of Kindergarten! 😱 How time flies!

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2026-07-16

I guess going through the basement to get to the bike is also part of my [commute](/collection/commute)?

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2026-07-15

Observing shadows. Another singular-image day. Taken right when I started the morning [commute](/collection/commute).

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2026-07-14

They are already setting up [Kirmes](https://kirmes-essen.de/grugakirmes). I guess we have to visit at least once. I remember it being [really annoying](/2025-08-18) last year. We'll see…

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2026-07-13

The only image I took today, because I was so busy with work and other _stuff_. (It is only the fourth [A41](/collection/a41) image this year, btw!) Meet-and-greet evening at school. We now know who Suvi's teacher will be – and most importantly what the class mascot is!

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2026-07-12

Open house at the maternity ward in Ulya's hospital. The kids got to see where mom spends so much time recently. Photo above shows the old hospital right next to the new building, where we visited today. (I am pretty sure I shot this from the exact angle before, but couldn't be bothered to check just now…)

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2026-07-11

Fun day at Gruga.

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2026-07-10

I kinda like this one. Had to react very quickly and was lucky that the auto focus actually nailed it! Reminded me of [this image](/2023-09-13) from a couple of years ago. * * * Homeserver update: [Immich](https://immich.app/) is now also fully synced with the iPhone. Only got a handfull of _new_ images that were – for whatever reason – not part of the [Parachute](https://parachuteapps.com/parachute) backup (which I used for the initial import). I also got [restic](https://restic.net/) backups set up to an external drive. Really happy with everything so far!

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2026-07-08

Farewell party at the kindergarten today. Only one more week! 😱 * * * **Immich update:** Processing of the files finished sometime today. The facial recognition is mixing up my daughters quite a bit, which I have to fix manually, I guess. I activated the backup feature on my phone and it is currently syncing photos. Halfway through it has only found a handful of screenshots that for whatever reason, weren't part of the backup I used for the inital import.

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2026-07-07

Football match at the kindergarten. Since Suvi is not interested in football at all (I can't blame her), she and her friend were given the role of first aiders – with deployment during the match. (The ref didn't seem that interested either and was climbing the tree at some point. 🤷‍♂️) * * * Homeserver/Immich update: The import was done after around 15 hours (give or take), but the processing (creating thumbnails, face recognition) is actually still ongoing! Currently still 35k+ images in the queue for OCR and almost 1k videos are waiting to be transcoded.

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2026-07-06

DIY kite. * * * Made some progress with the homeserver today. Started the import of my iCloud library into Immich. This will take [at least half a day](https://florianziegler.com/journal/immich-import) – if not longer. I'll probably write a post about my setup, once it is done.

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2026-07-05

Dedicated photography time with [Daniel](https://danielpietzsch.com/) is always a delight. We took a longer drive this time to check out [Hasper Dam](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasper_Talsperre). The surroundings were not super photogenic, or at least I wasn't super inspired. I still enjoyed being out with my friend – which is the main point of these trips anyway. We didn't get any (meaningful amount of) rain, although it looks like it would start pouring down any second in the images. Daniel made a [Polaroid](https://polaroids.danielpietzsch.com/), which I am sure he will post today.

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2026-07-04

Went into the city to buy swimsuits for the kids. * * * In completely unrelated news I finally got started on turning my old 2013 MBP (which has suffered a broken screen) into a homeserver. Very minimal (headless) setup. Installed [Immich](https://immich.app/) as the first service on it. Still need to figure out how to best import all the iCloud photos. Tomorrow: Setting up remote access. It has been fun so far! :)

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