PHOTO-A-DAY CHALLENGE
It’s Getting Hot in Here
Week 104 of the photographic documentary of my daily life
Another week of flying, jumping from the skies, attending a wedding celebration, and sweating in the sweltering heat of northern Germany. Yes, it’s getting hot in here.
I haven’t been to Africa for over a year now and have left Thailand’s humidity and heat behind this year in March but somehow Germany can let us suffer too.
Let’s start this week’s photo essay with a lovely picture from my office view. This is northern Germany.
Flat.
No mountains to be seen for miles. Just farmland, forests, rivers and lots of lakes.
I’m trying to share a little bit of my working life every week and today I got the information for those of you interested in the camera options of a tandem skydive.
You can either book an outside camera flyer who will capture the freefall while flying around the tandem pair or you can book a camera on the tandem master’s hand who will film the entire thing from close up.
This girl did both. So I filmed her from the camera mounted to my wrist and we had an extra flyer filming us.
That’s when I took this different kind of selfie while falling towards earth at approximately 200kph.
It was time to travel again. Not the big kind of travel I do every few months switching continents. But the kind to travel that gets me out of my small bubble connecting with people and seeing life outside of the trailer park.
I went on a solo adventure. Traveling with the train from northern to southern Germany to attend a friend’s wedding, I got to experience more than just that, a celebration.
I was in public. I got into the city. I got into crowds. I was talking to strangers and sitting next to one for hours.
And it all started with getting up early and watching the sun rise above the horizon.
The following day my parents organized a barbeque in the garden. My sister, aunts, uncles, and cousins were coming to see me and spending time together.
It was a beautiful summer day and we were happily chatting and eating for hours.
On Monday I was heading back home again but not without filling my suitcase with lots of goodies from my parents. Self-made jam, some good Schnapps and of course lots of vegetables from the garden.
My favorite ones are those yellow cocktail tomatoes. They’re so delicious! No store-bought tomato will ever taste like the one you picked yourself from the tomato bush.
The taste and smell is just so different.
Some of you might be disgusted by this picture. Some might want to look away. But it’s part of life. Out there, in nature.
That is where this cat belongs to. She’s semi-wild. She’s looked after. But she also knows how to fend, entertain or feed herself. Yes, this cat goes on a hunt several times a day.
She’s the reason why there are no rat or mice problems at the trailer park. She doesn’t just roam the camping site but the surrounding fields too. She keeps the mice population at a controlled limit.
Yes, she’ll play with the mice she catches. She brings them to us to teach us how to hunt. She watches them run just to catch them again.
And finally, in the very end, she’ll eat them.
Because that’s what animals in the wild do. They don’t hunt for the sport of it. They hunt for food.
And before you all shed a tear or two for this mouse taking her last breath I got a lovely sunset to share. The following evening we were sitting out in front of the hangar waiting for the temperatures to drop.
Once again, we had 38°C (100°F) somewhere in the afternoon. We were all so drained. Did the minimum we could do to get through the day.
And in the evening, just as we were walking back to our trailer, this was the scenery I was looking at. The forest in the West of us with the sun setting behind it.
Cotton ball clouds in the sky. Some fiery red and orange on the horizon.
And we know, tomorrow it’s only gonna be hotter…
This has been my week in photographs. 7 days. 7 photographs. Anyone can join. Once. Or weekly. It doesn’t matter. We welcome everyone! Dennett started this photography challenge in 2020 and many have participated ever since.
Erika / Eileen / K. Barrett / Juan / David / Mia / Susan / LensAfield / Kim / Barbara / Diana / Barb / Sandra / Shruthi / Ellie / Pene / Olive / Gustavo / Jane / Penny / Jillian
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