The lakes of Prespa

On our trip to northern Greece we also visited the lakes of Prespa, the larger one being shared between Greece, Albania and Macedonia. When we arrived the lakes were covered with fog which disappeared later during the day. Needless to say this made for some good opportunities for photographs ;)

Happy new year!

During the first days of the new year, we visited the north of Greece, namely the city of Kastoriá where Ioanna grew up. The trip was great (we also visited Meteora and the lakes of Prespa) and was a truly unique Greece-experience. Instead of islands, sun, and beaches we enjoyed frozen lakes, snow capped mountains and open fireplaces!

La Tour Eiffel

For a 'project' related to the approaching Christmas, I'm going through some old pictures. And due to a lack of new ones, I will post some of these old ones in the next weeks, starting with a picture of the Eiffel tower, taken during Ioanna's and mine first trip together - April in Paris ... As with the picture from Chile that I posted some weeks ago, it's interesting to go back to these old pictures and sometimes find something in them that I hadn't found or seen back then.

Dalí meets Escher in Potsdam

During the weekend we went to Potsdam. And even though I've know the parks and castles all my life, there's almost always something new and unexpected to find.

Autumn collection

Because it was so much fun before, we made a new modelling session for the Zara "People"-project.

Atacama ... 5 years later

Recently I went through some of the pictures I took almost five years ago during my amazing trip to Chile. Surprisingly, I found some very nice pictures that I hadn't included in any gallery and that I didn't even remember, such as this slightly surrealistic picture of three head-less flamingos or the picture of geysers or the amazing colors of the Atacama.

Image restoration

Last week Ioanna's mother showed me a wedding photograph of Ioanna's great-grandparents which was partly damaged and asked me whether I can try to fix it. So I took a picture of it and back at home did my first attempt at image restoration. It turned out that with some cool Photoshop features (most notabely the "content-aware" fill option) even a novice like me can get some pretty amazing results without much effort (although you do need a bit of patience ;). Move your mouse over the picture to see how it looked before the restoration.