2026-01-30 18:07:00
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sandrider:
🎵 Mountain Song
#Sandrider
https://goodtodierecords.bandcamp.com/track/mountain-song
https://open.spotify.com/track/1hJEvsnyhTZ7hez8G6J8yA
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sandrider:
🎵 Mountain Song
#Sandrider
https://goodtodierecords.bandcamp.com/track/mountain-song
https://open.spotify.com/track/1hJEvsnyhTZ7hez8G6J8yA
Hoher Ifen (2023)
One of the most unique and geologically interesting and layered mountains in the Northern Alps, including the extremely karst Gottesacker (aka God's Acre, aka Cemetery) plateau with deep caves... one of the areas I'm hoping to explore further this year...
#MountainMonday
These Scientists Tested How Climate Change Affects Wild Meadows—With Alarming Results – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/03/scientists-rocky-mountain-biological-laboratory-gothic-colorado-global-warming-experiment-john-harte-meadow-ecosystems/
"‘Extraordinary event’ for mountain gorillas as new twins born in DRC"
#Gorilla #Animals
https://www.
The Mountain, el nuevo disco de la mšs famosa banda virtual del mundo: Gorillaz
#Gorillaz
It's official. Mountain View is ditching its Flock contract.
https://padailypost.com/2026/02/24/mountain-view-council-votes-to-get-rid-of-license-plate-cameras/
It's #footpathfriday and it is #winter ... So I searched for a photo that would show exactly that. -- a couple of years ago I went to a nearby mountain after some fresh snowfall.
The trail usually clearly visible was sometimes barely visible directly, but the landscape just showed th…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell:
🎵 Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Remix)
#NowPlaying #MarvinGaye #TammiTerrell
https://federfunkofficial.bandcamp.com/track/marvin-gaye-tammi-terrell-aint-no-mountain-high-enough-federfunk-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/7tqhbajSfrz2F7E1Z75ASX
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Obongjayar:
🎵 Holy Mountain
#Obongjayar
https://obongjayar.bandcamp.com/track/holy-mountain
https://open.spotify.com/track/2l5tfcgwEAi6gErNcsL5OU
Acabado surveys terraced mountain agriculture - humans have been shaping montane landscapes and creating habitats worldwide for a very long time.
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-mountain-terraces-indigenous-peoples-climate.html
On April 30, night of Saint Walburga (Walpurgisnacht), witches fly to Blocksberg mountain in Germany to catch up on their deeds throughout the year and dance around al fire. When I was there, the devil was also present, judging harshly the witches who didn't work enough evil magic.
#MythologyMonday
#resistance is everything. Also #resistors.
Okay #Gorillaz new album is incredible. Certainly the best (and most important) since Plastic Beach
https://open.spotify.com/album/1RvJmGd47lKS4XMXs9j8hD?si=E9QpQcTHR…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kevin Morby:
🎵 I Have Been To The Mountain
#NowPlaying #KevinMorby
https://kevinmorby.bandcamp.com/track/i-have-been-to-the-mountain
https://open.spotify.com/track/2umTklGNx0IiiTFFVNZNlC
Spoiler alert: “It’s like flowers on steroids" is not referring to the areas that were heated. This is not encouraging news. But then, it shows how the #ClimateCrisis will change valued ecosystems.
‘It’s like flowers on steroids’: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?
Kellenspitze (2025)
(latest 8x6" Kallitype print from last night)
This mountain is the tallest peak in the Tannheimer Alps, here seen from a narrow ridge path in the north east. It was a fabulous warm day with so many mountain flowers in full bloom and clouds forming/drifting between the passes and nearby peaks, later developing into a heavy thunderstorm (thankfully only when I was already descending again...)
Coming to Knowledge:ORIGINALS on Thursday April 16 at 9PM and available for streaming on that date.
E.J.Hughes only wanted to be left alone to paint. He made hundreds of paintings in his 70 year career and lived long enough to hear on the telephone that one of his paintings fetched over $1m in his lifetime. Not many humans have that experience!
I was lucky enough to be invited to a preview at Emily Carr Uni - and I am very glad we went. Hughes was one of a kind!
I’ve always liked the intro to The Spy Who Loved Me. Escaping the bad guys by skiing off a mountain, pulling the rip cord to reveal the Union Jack in the parachute. Just awesome. #jamesbond
Even after a U.S. bombing raid last June and more than five weeks of attacks on Iran since February,
one suspected nuclear site remains untouched.
Experts say the underground facility, known as #Pickaxe #Mountain, is buried so deep that it may lie beyond the reach of America’s most powerful bunker-buster bo…
“It was common knowledge that World War V started in a defective twenty-cent Molecular Circuit Matrix in a newly-installed firecontrol computer four miles below Cheyenne Mountain, Wyoming.”
…
Demon
By John Varley
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kevin Morby:
🎵 I Have Been To The Mountain
#NowPlaying #KevinMorby
https://kevinmorby.bandcamp.com/track/i-have-been-to-the-mountain
https://open.spotify.com/track/2umTklGNx0IiiTFFVNZNlC
Give me your best pickup lines. I'll go first:
If we ran out of food on a mountain overpass, I'd eat you last :3
From tech unboxings to mountain walks, Episode 17 of Penguins on Tour is live! 🐧🇧🇬
We’re fitting a Radeon 6800 into the new Ryzen 5700 rig, hunting for the best Bloody Mary at Pirin 75, and visiting Krinetz Dam. Plus, a sizzling pork knuckle finale at a Mahana! 🥩🖥️
Check it out now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwrY-jZ…
I kinda like living among lions (mountain lions). I wish we heard (or saw) them more often. We have plenty of deer for them to eat.
(We have had mountain lions come right up to our front door, and we have heard them - they sound like a cross between a human baby crying and a domestic cat.)
There also used to be bears - both black and brown (grizzle) around here. The black bears have returned to the mountains south of us, so maybe they will return here.
It is reported tha…
The View From The Precipice (is always the best!)
(Sonnenberggrat doing its name justice on a sunny late-summer-like day in November 2025, two days before winter arrived in full force...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
Friends! Finally! I got my day of #snowshoeing!! 😀
I didn't even plan to go very far but the snow and the weather were just wonderful and I felt confident to ascend further.
I didn't go to the summit. I just returned at a point where I admitted that I wouldn't do it for the fun but only for being there. So I returned and had an amazing snow day.
I also met a cou…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Charley Pride:
🎵 Mountain of Love
#CharleyPride
https://open.spotify.com/track/1oqxU521xW9h8rJWzVWxD4
#CoronaDischarges Glow on Trees Under Thunderstorms: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL119591 -> Thunderstorms conjure ghostly coronae in treetops, observed outdoors for the first time: https://news.agu.org/press-release/thunderstorms-conjure-ghostly-coronae-in-treetops-observed-outdoors-for-the-first-time/ - the weak electric discharges may set off ultraviolet sparkles over large swaths of forest under storms, potentially impacting canopy health (this is fringe geophysics but some amateur astronomers are going after corona discharges - esp. in webcam images from mountain sites - with a vengeance, so here goes).
Wild Pink - "Cloud or Mountain"
#FieldsMountainsValleys
Nachdem Carlotta Schumacher im letzten Jahr alle Mountain Races bestritten hat, nimmt sie in diesem Jahr das #RAAM im Frauenteam von Ann-Kathrin Bendixen (aka Affe auf Bike) in Angriff. Im Vergleich zu ihrer Leistung der Vorjahre wird das ein Klacks. Nur hinradeln wird dieses Mal schwierig.
Quelle: Insta
Mountain View police turn off license plate cameras after data sharing breach
https://www.mv-voice.com/public-safety/2026/02/02/mountain-view-police-turn-off-license-plate-cameras-after-data-sharing-breach/
A Downed Airman, a Mountain Hideout and a High-Risk Rescue in Iran (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/a-downed-airman-a-mountain-hideout-and-a-high-risk-rescue-in-iran-921aa8f6?st=iigrEF
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p58#a260406p58
Wieder was gelernt mit diesem Post. @… beispielsweise ermöglicht zwar das Posten auf Pixelfed-Instanzen, aber lässt nur mastodon-like 4 Fotos pro Post zu.
Und alle, die von Mastodon aus folgen, werden wohl nur die ersten 4 Fotos sehen, auch wenn ich jetzt alle neun im Post habe.
Aber ich finde es lohnt sich. Die Weihnachtsdeko an den Rädern muss man ges…
'This is the future' — Amid blackouts, these Ukrainian mountain villages have green solution: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/19/this-is-the-future-amid.html
Google schedules I/O 2026 for May 19 to 20 in Mountain View, teasing the "latest AI breakthroughs and updates" in Gemini, Android, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/17/google-io-2026-date/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Gustavo Santaolalla:
🎵 Brokeback Mountain "Brokeback Mountain 1"
#GustavoSantaolalla
https://open.spotify.com/track/3xJLmXbWr5u2XXhZuuNtd9
New UV lamp, new developer handling & my largest Kallitype print so far (~10x7 inch) — a shot of the iconic Oeschinensee cirque, surrounded by 3500 meter mountains...
The new light setup is ~10x slower than my other light box, but allows me to do much larger prints in the future. The developer is chemically still the same, but now heated to 40℃. The photo is originally from an old iPhone 6.
The negative needs some more tweaking to increase contrast and maybe another minute o…
You should consider watching retro Oscars!
Better movies, also a few months later you could have gone and bought an Apple I from Byte Shop in Mountain View.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8RjvesnvDPydq4p8oTiYNgA0sGA4YYX&si=ALw6_scEyhV_PGZ2
Good morning!
#goodmorning #morningwalk #bayern
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Honey I’m Home:
🎵 Hyperspace Mountain
#HoneyImHome
https://honeyimhomesweethome.bandcamp.com/track/hyperspace-mountain
https://open.spotify.com/track/4aA1fwmSF9FCNCuIP6cBUk
RE: https://mastodon.social/@setiinstitute/116105237314190361
Now I want to live in mountain view!
Saw a rather good production of "Come From Away" this evening by Theatreworks in Mountain View, California.
I don't know how long it is running, but it is worth seeing.
Five, maybe ten years too late, but full marks to the Grauniad for spotting the early trickles of fine sands and tiny pebbles starting to accumulate at the foot of the mountain of conflict, I mean the mountain of ""#AI"" hype. Haven't seen any sign of other professional news organisations working it out, yet, but it'll come.
The G doesn't seem to be comfortable with the main problem - the gulf between the general notion of what it is, and what it can act…
Retirement isn't a distant dream but a reality within reach. 🌅 From serene ocean mornings to majestic mountain vistas, it's possible with today's planning. Join me in building a fulfilling future, step by strategic step. 🚤 #DreamRetirement #StrategicPlanning
Höllental ❤️
(Named after the hellish canyon section at the bottom of this most amazing valley, a section with tunnels and waterfalls which made the valley impassible during winter months (even still now) and the only way in & out is via a very narrow path along the rocks higher up...)
#FootpathFriday
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Steve Miller Band:
🎵 Wild Mountain Honey
#SteveMillerBand
https://sandygold.bandcamp.com/track/wild-mountain-honey-steve-miller-band
https://open.spotify.com/track/6lELCr5OEudkNijuNqm14G
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #JazzRecordRequests
Duke Ellington:
🎵 In The Hall of the Mountain King
#DukeEllington
https://open.spotify.com/track/7fePI0n5M0L21glzSnTUdk
First weekend of spring, but dreaming of autumn...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
Starting the day with going through the #bergwelten magazine once more. Sometimes I wish I'd knew the focal length of the photos.
Later we did two nice walks near #dietramszell and enjoyed spring and the sun. Wrist is also feeling better.
We saw really a lot of cyclists. But …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Honey I’m Home:
🎵 Hyperspace Mountain
#HoneyImHome
https://honeyimhomesweethome.bandcamp.com/track/hyperspace-mountain
https://open.spotify.com/track/4aA1fwmSF9FCNCuIP6cBUk
Tectonic Wall
A pretty famous geotope in the Allgäuer Alps with extreme folds and layering. The hundreds of meters thick top layer of mostly Dolomite belongs to the Lech valley thrust sheet (215 million years old) which got pushed above the Allgäu sheet below (190 million years old, here mostly covered by overgrown talus fields) and Radiolarite from the Ruhpolding formation even further below (160 million years old and originally 2000 meter below sea level — hard to imagine!).
#GiftLink
The Costa Rican Mountain Town Offering Sanctuary to Families Deported by Trump - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/world/americas/trump-deportees-costa-rica.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bVA.QYeT.EfmkB14vNx_B&smid=url-share
#silentSunday
Sprague Lake, #RockyMountainNationalPark
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Heartless Bastards:
🎵 The Mountain
#HeartlessBastards
https://heartlessbastards.bandcamp.com/album/the-mountain
https://open.spotify.com/track/4EHj5uISRYiQpZ77KjZbw2
Monochrome Mirror Mountain Monday
#MountainMonday #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography
My today's #footpathFriday is one from the archives. I was really bad prepared that day, but luckily everything turned out well -- and I got this fantastic, dramatic shot!
more about that day: http…
Cybersecurity developments are coming fast and heavy right now, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments you should know, including
--Hot new social network Moltbook exposed 1 million credentials,
--Chinese state actors were likely behind Notepad hijacking,
--Bill to allow the Russian government to shut down comms networks moves forward,
--ICE uses app that accesses 1.2B facial images,
--Mountain View disables license plate ca…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
William Parker:
🎵 Flow River All the way down the mountain
#WilliamParker
Ova da Morteratsch (2024)
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #River #Forest
#silentSunday
Boulder Brook, #RockyMountainNationalPark September 2003
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
a-ha:
🎵 Foot of the Mountain
#NowPlaying #aha
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/foot-of-the-mountain
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Cm2bgwzocxsB5sD6g8VSL
'Blick von oben' #fotovorschlag 'view from above'
When I saw the topic, I wasn't sure wether I should post a mountin photo or not. But as I have seen so many others doing so, I decided to also post this "view from above" from ~3 months ago when I went to this mountain and enjoyed not only the silence but also the view.
Enjoy!
Shot ...and chaser (and it's only Tuesday): Two new 8x6" prints done over the weekend, from one of my fave repeat hikes in the Allgäuer Alps...
Alpsee and view into the Lechtal Alps (November 2021)
Himmeleck mountain pass with Großer Wilder (October 2023)
I find the aesthetics of the Kallitype process are so nicely complementing the timelessness of these places...
For some of the next prints I will be switching to Rochelle salt as developer for supposedly even…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Black Mountain:
🎵 You Can Dream
#BlackMountain
https://blackmountain.bandcamp.com/track/you-can-dream
https://open.spotify.com/track/0zMiSNqJh5P5EJzDRcqrA4
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
KT Tunstall:
🎵 The Mountain
#NowPlaying #KTTunstall
https://kttunstalllhn.bandcamp.com/track/the-mountain
https://open.spotify.com/track/4QgdrIKu4ix3ifynwldVZp
For today's #silentsunday I am thinking about wether I want to go to this place and take a similar photo (just now in winter) ... OR go to the place seen in the photo. 🤔
I might also have to check the nature & wildlife protection zones first.
Anyways - enjoy the rest of your sunday.
Oh, I even wrote a blog post about it:
Behold, The Imposing Frieder (2053m).
(Picture from yesterday, confirming that spring is not quite evenly distributed just yet...)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Mountain Song
#JanesAddiction
https://thekingsofquarantine.bandcamp.com/track/mountain-song-janes-addiction-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5fKZJHzJ9d3MADArbm9muW
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Solarization: Most digital photographers only know the effect as Photoshop filter, but here it's happening chemically in the darkroom... Created by extreme overexposure (here ~3x longer of my usual exposure time), the darkest parts of the image have become inverted, which in Kallitype then (temporarily) turns into these amazing orange tones, whilst the mids & highlights remain normal neutral grays, depending on developer used... During fixing and (especially) toning, the orange would…
Remember that weird failed rusty red print I posted on Sunday? Seeing very early on that something went astray with the emulsion coating, I didn't fully develop the print (only dev and clearing, no fixer or toner) and just left it to dry, wanting to see what would happen to it...
Three days later, and it has turned into the strangest (but somehow exciting) result I've ever seen, burgundy with slightly blue highlights. It still seems to continue bleeding further into the paper, …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Grateful Dead:
🎵 Fire on the Mountain
#GratefulDead
https://ole-smokey.bandcamp.com/track/grateful-dead-fire-on-the-mountain-ole-smokey-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4DpBfWl3q8e0gGB76lAaox
Slowly getting into a rhythm to start the day with doing a print each morning, each time still tweaking either negatives, concentrations and/or durations of different processing stages to adjust tones/hues... A new adventure with some back and forth each time!
This print is of Langkofel / Sassolungo, one of my favourite mountain massifs, just such interesting features and so many dear memories, here seen from the east (around half and hour before sunset)...
Alpenhauptkamm (2025).
Near the central ridge of the Alps. Canon R7, CPF, unedited RAW (only cropped). Sometimes it just feels so unreal how colorful some mountain landscapes can be (even without polarization filter)...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Mountain Song
#JanesAddiction
https://thekingsofquarantine.bandcamp.com/track/mountain-song-janes-addiction-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5fKZJHzJ9d3MADArbm9muW
From a recent hike that I haven't yet blogged about - but I thought I'd just like to share it already with you.
The start of the hike wasn't in the snow but on top, there was still a good winter feeling.
Well, I hope you like it. Maybe it was the last winter shooting this season for me ...
#hiking
...on second thought, maybe let's not go to the mountains this weekend. Avalanche danger Level 4 (2nd highest grade) pretty much everywhere. Bit of an unusual sight, but not surprised, we had quite a lot of fresh snow in past three days, and it's getting too warm too quickly...
#Avalanche #Map
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Kevin Morby:
🎵 I Have Been to the Mountain
#KevinMorby
https://kevinmorby.bandcamp.com/track/i-have-been-to-the-mountain
https://open.spotify.com/track/2umTklGNx0IiiTFFVNZNlC
My last two #photos from my snowshoeing adventure!
These are from the way back. And as you can see the sun was nice and bright! On the way up it was more cloudy and not so bright. - And in the end I was happy that I had experienced both!
A video and the other photos are on my blog:
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Mountain Song
#JanesAddiction
https://thekingsofquarantine.bandcamp.com/track/mountain-song-janes-addiction-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5fKZJHzJ9d3MADArbm9muW
Last Light, Last Look Back (Vol.2)
Somewhat unexpectedly, even in the valley, we had the whole place pretty much to ourselves. Not quite the usual Easter weather, but the snow & ice always welcome and emphasizes the majestic scale/depth...
#LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite
Last Light, Last Look Back...
(Lachenspitze, April 2026)
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #BlackAndWhite
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Townes Van Zandt:
🎵 Our Mother the Mountain
#TownesVanZandt
https://townesvanzandt.bandcamp.com/album/our-mother-the-mountain
https://open.spotify.com/track/50ir5TASs5emq5j9pr0Gtc
In The Garden Of Eden.
(From one of my favorite hikes last year, October 2025... a place of absolute solitude, harmony, peace and positive vibes, a feast for the eyes)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #90TEEN
The Mountain Goats:
🎵 Peru
#TheMountainGoats
https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/track/peru
https://open.spotify.com/track/5EU1VTFCSe7PPE1P3MFxGN
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20Rz1l3z2ghKiLzcxe3HpQ
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg
Nurse Log
(Path through beautifully lush old growth forest on the slopes of Saddle Mountain, Oregon, in the spring of 2017)
#ThickTrunkThursday #NaturePhotography #Mosstodon
Made new test prints on some off-cuts, using a slightly stronger developer solution than usual to see impact on max. depth. The main image (Eagle Creek, Oregon) is using 18% sodium acetate (curve corrected negative), the test strips are of 20% and 15% solutions (both uncorrected). The phone capture doesn't really show the differences too well, but I think I will go for the 18-20% from now on...
(Btw. The original image is here:
Entering the canyon
(Half an hour earlier we were sitting and basking in the sun at the top of those cliffs on the left...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
Toblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin
(October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
Hoher Peißenberg (September 2024)
(From my series In The Lands Of Via Claudia Augusta, the ancient and most important Roman road through the Alps which connected the Po Valley in the south with Augsburg and the Danube as northern terminus)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography