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About this site

This site started as a small photo blog on focal.soup.io and moved a few years later to focalsoup.tumblr.com due to instability of soup and the lack of features. Just a few weeks ago I felt it was time to move again.

In the beginning of 2017 I started to hack a small and light python static site generator that is now checking an inbox folder ones in a while. Whenever a new photo was uploaded to that folder it would run a few commands and rebuild the site using HTML5, CSS3 and that is it. No fancy blink blink. No javaScript. Just plain old light good static html. Whenever I feal the need to upload a picture now, all I got to do is putting that file into the inbox folder and the rest is done by the script.

The web design itself was originally create for the soup.io blog but I improved it over the years and you can still see the influence tumblr had. I love the archive-system they are offering over there and so I let my generator script build something alike.

About my cameras

I started taking pictures with my moms camera (good old EXA) when I was pretty young. My father gave me my first digital camera when I was around 15 years old. Panasonic it was. One of the early models. I can't really provide the name. I'm quite sure it must be stored in some old EXIF info but it might not be that interesting anyways. When the Canon G10 came out I switched and I loved this camera for getting quite good picture quality in a pocketable size.

A friend lend me her Canon EOS 450D a few years later for a trip to the Baltic Sea and I was deeply impressed by the image quality and all the possibilities. I bought a Canon EOS 550D a few month later and was satisfied for years. When another friend asked me to go with her on a trip through the US a sold my old G10 and the EOS 550D and invested in a studio-used Canon EOS 7D body that again opened a new world of photography for me. Over the years I bought a few compact and reasonable sized lenses from Sigma (e.g. Sigma EX 30mm 1:1,4) and I am happy for now.

I travel a lot and I try to take my camera with me where ever the "travel light"-approach is allowing it. In the last month (especially while traveling Vietnam) I started to used my Sony Z5 compact for snapshots and I was blown away by the photos I could get out of this tiny-lensed waterproof wonder-box. So you might see some more of those pictures in the near future.

About me

I am in my early thirties and you can definitely call me a digital native. I like free software, open standards and taking pictures "in the wild". The rest should not bother you.