Dear Readers, Happy 2021 !
What a nightmarish year we had. Glad that it is the beginning of a new year. Although the problems are not going away immediately, it is however symbolic that we are all moving on, to a better tomorrow. And we will …
It is a tradition on this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. Because of the pandemic, we traveled very little, Morocco in January and the Eastern side of Switzerland in September, plus a day trip to Bern.
Marrakesh, Morocco – Jemaa el-Fna and Kotoubia
Dar Darma, Marrakesh
Merzouga – the edge of Sahara
Essaouira on the Atlantic coast of Morocco
Grimselsee at 1,908 m (6,260 ft), Switzerland
Muottas Muragl at 8,051 feet (2,454 m) above St Moritz
A night in a yurt at Tgalucas, Alp Flix at 6,463 feet (1,970 m)
Staring at Piz Bernina 4,049 m (13,283 ft)
A night on the Pilatus summit at 6,801 feet (2,073 m) to see sunrise before 7 am.
Sunrise from Esel at 6,949 feet (2,118 m), Mount Pilatus
Oberhaupt at 6,906 feet (2,105 m), Mount Pilatus
The Parliament Building, Bundesplatz, Bern
For 2021, I(Chris) bought a new camera by Olympus with 2 lenses – the pictures above (and many others on the blog) were taken using a Lumix LX7 or a Lumix TZ101. The photo below was snapped by an iPhone XR – it is not from an advertisement. We will have a separate post about the camera system later.
Testing the new camera around town – Lausanne.
We also upgraded our software from Lightroom 6 to Lightroom Classic.
Hope to make more black & white photos in 2021.