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June 5, 2021
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Austria
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Zell am See: Lake in the Alps

The Lake of Zell (“Zeller See”) may not be impressive looking at raw data alone. The lake is pretty small, with a length of 3,8 km and a width of 1,5 km. What makes this body of water so picturesque is the landscape surrounding it. The Lake of Zell is situated amid the Alps with mountains over 3,000 meters in close distance. On bright days, you can see as far as the “Hohe Tauern” mountain range, the largest one in Austria. Situated at the lake’s western shore is a lovely little town with the same name. Starting from here, you can reach the peak of Schmittenhöhe by cable car. The views from atop the lake and the village are magnificent, offering incredible views of the region. Other ways to discover the lake are to take a boat trip across the lake or use the pathway parallel to the shore and bike or walk along.

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June 1, 2021
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Austria
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Kaprun: Town in the Alps

The blog is up and running again!

It was pretty silent here this year and a good part of 2020. For a short time, the website was down altogether. There are a couple of reasons, many of those in connection to the COVID crisis. Most importantly, though, I had no creative energy left for photography. The circumstances are changing, and as the world is beginning to open up again, my motivation for attempting creative endeavors is also coming back slowly but surely. A more hands-on reason for updates is new gear. I switched from a Canon 70D to Sony. A Sony C7, to be precise. It has some advantages for travel and landscape photography because of its handiness. For now, I just have one travel lens, so it is a new experience and a little bit of a challenge to focus solely on photography with one particular lens (although the range is quite broad, to be fair). Anyway, the point is that http://www.michaelhoffman.at is back and will be updated regularly. I will try to stick to a once-per-week update scheme, but we will see how things go. 

I want to start with a trip to Zell am See and Kaprun, which I will cover in separate albums. The first one is dedicated to the town of Kaprun, which is lovely by itself. Situated in the midst of the Austrian alps, it offers fantastic views of the surrounding mountain ranges and the characteristic charm of a traditional town in this region of Europe. Although the weather was unusually cold and cloudy at our time of visit in May, the few rays of sunshine were sufficient to shine a light on the beautiful nature of the region.

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March 29, 2020
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Portugal
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retrospective: lisbon in instagrams

At the time of writing this, we are living in truly weird times. There is a global pandemic ravaging the world, causing a lot of sadness and grief but also turning our lives upside down. As someone who travels a lot, both for leisure and for work, the closure of the borders is a significant change in my life. I had a lot of plans for travel and also for this website, which are canceled or on hold for now. But you have to see the upsides as well. There is a feeling of change in the air, of reflection and rethinking. Now we have the time to ask ourselves: What is essential, and what do we truly need? The future seems more uncertain than ever before.

A good time for a retrospection. For many years, I was pretty active on Instagram, and I liked the very distinct square format. Intentionally, I kept it very separate from this website because I didn’t think the shots were fitting for desktop screens. But having time at home, I am sorting my library, and I like the Instagram format for some shots, so I decided to do some collections. Let’s start with a country and city which is very close to me. Selected impressions of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2014.

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April 14, 2019
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Canarias
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Travelling Fuerteventura

Traveling Fuerteventura, you discover primarily barren and dry land, but still, there is a lot going on. The goats, for example, roam many parts of the island and provide milk for one of the culinary specialties here, goat cheese. Also, there are beautiful old windmills to find, and if you dig more deeply, nature becomes more and more diverse, with sandy beaches and more mountainous regions. It’s worth it to travel to the inner part of Fuerteventura as well, as enchanting as the coast often is.

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January 18, 2019
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USA
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New York in Winter

If you travel to New York in April, you notice that it’s still much colder there than in Europe. There was a significant blizzard right before we arrived in 2018 (the last one in the season), and the mood in the city was rather grim. However it’s not a wrong time to visit the city as it was not as packed as I usually imagine it to be. There were some quiet moments to have, even in busy Manhattan. It is time to look around and observe the last moments of winter right before the dawn of spring.

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December 9, 2017
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Bosnia i Hercegovina
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Mostar: Journey in Time

In the last several series’ about Mostar, I focussed on the war-torn past of the city. While the past conflicts are still vivid and can be seen when wandering the streets, one should not dismiss the long history of Mostar as an Ottoman town. The historic buildings are situated in a scenic way alongside the river with the well-known bridge of Mostar, which was rebuilt after the war, marking the center. It’s also where the famous tradition of bridge jumping takes place. There are several beautiful mosques, paying tribute to the Islamic belief still followed by the people living in this part of the town. Walking the old village of Mostar truly feels like a journey in time.

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