The Bridge

Baden, Switzerland. Limmat Hochbrücke.
Photo Walk and Silent Thinking. May 4, 2021.


How long did it take for the little yellow tree to grow so big?

I was standing in the middle of the road under the bridge focused on my composition: One step back, to the left, to the right, up, down … – if I am right Ansel Adams called this procedure “the photographer’s dance” – so I didn’t realize the traffic behind me waiting patiently. Maybe they must have noticed my emotional concentration and didn’t want to disturb my creative moments.

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Time will tell

Philosophic thoughts about moments and transience of time.
Norway, Lyngen Alps. February 11 and 13, 2019.

Transience of Snow

This morning I left Anton’s beautiful cottage (see this map, the cottage is marked in red) – the fantastic Hytte i Lyngsalpene even before sunrise.

While putting on my snowshoes I was thoughtfully wondering if I would be allowed to touch the untouched and intact snow cover – this white and endless beauty. Do not call me crazy, but my tracks would be visible for days!

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Reach more by doing less

Valuable creative breathers

A few years ago I spent every minute on my job; I was working hard and hardly ever had a break or allowed myself to have a breather – there was no time for any sort of timeout.
Always running, having my Laptop, Tablet and Smartphone with me helped me to keep organized and to work for my customers whenever and wherever I was – this is mobile computing at its best and highly efficient! – and all around the clock. If there was some time between two coaching units or two meetings – well, I knew what to do. It was the time when I founded my company, and in the startup time I created a solid base for it’s future development.

As my company grew rapidly over the last few years I learned to be even more productive – but not in the traditional sense by producing more, organizing better or working even harder, but by doing less – and taking frequent creative breathers.

Let me explain.

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Where Time stands still

Scottish Highlands

Garvault House – “Mainland Britain’s Most Remote Hotel” – considering that my day started at 2 a.m. (!) driving from Ehrendingen (near Zurich) to Basel Mulhouse EuroAirport – from there flying to Edinburgh, where I picked up my rental car after my arrival – it was still before 6 a.m., even before breakfast time (!) – then starting to the long drive from Edinburgh to the North, passing Inverness following the A9 road (Scotland), then following the North Eastern coast of Ross-shire and Sutherland, and finally the slowing down on the almost endless and narrow roads (A897 and B871) across the remote backcountry of the Scottish Highlands – well – considering this never ending journey – the Garvault House certainly is “Mainland Britain’s Most Remote Hotel”. Not only Britain’s … in my opinion 😉

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