Andeer, Switzerland (Hiking in the Alps)
Since spring I owned the DJI Mavic Pro drone. I was actively flying and on the hunt for some amazing aerial footage. In Switzerland, the best places are for sure the mountains. On the weekends and sometimes even after work I went out in the mountains and flew my drone.
What I learned is that beautiful weather isn’t always best. Let’s see an example of some clouds hanging into the valley.
Brigels, Switzerland (Civil Service)
Every Swiss citizen has to serve for the nation. An option is to be part of the army or do the civil service. Which I did this year. I worked at a farm for 2 months during the summer.
The work I did there was completely different from the work I’m used to. But it’s always interesting to learn new stuff and do things I haven’t done for a long time. Being outside every day doing physical work is hard, especially when normally working in the office like I do. But I liked this difference for a couple of weeks. But just with the knowledge that I can go back to my desk at some point.
On the 1st of August, which is the birthday of the Switzerland, we had the day off. So the farmer, his sons and me went for a hike just up the hill. The weather was amazing and we had great fun climbing the top.
Fronalpstock, Switzerland (Camping)
This year, my colleague and I decided to buy some camping gear. With the intend to use to camp on a mountaintop and enjoy the nature and most importantly to photograph the sunsets and sunrises.
As everything, we had to learn the basic stuff. I was used to camping, but just with caravans. Camping with trends and back bag is a different experience. So we started small. First, we just went uphill and set up the tend and tried to get something warm from our gas cooker.
The next step was climbing a mountain and set up the tend at the mountaintop, which we learned is not always the wisest decision. We regretted quite fast after a thunderstorm came up and strong winds. After trying to fight the wind on the edge of a cliff we had no other opportunity then try to dismantle the tend during the storm. After we moved to a more secure and most importantly wind covered place, we enjoyed the sunrise in the morning. Disclaimer: we missed the sunset because the wind kept us busy, which was a bummer.
St. Moritz, Switzerland (Landscape in the Engadin)
When the autumn starts and it’s getting colder, the trees are preparing for winter. In a region close to my hometown this phenomenon is very nice to watch. All trees are colored yellow and it’s an amazing look. So we took our car and drove there for a weekend.
Zermatt, Switzerland (with Joshua Earle)
Because the famous guy from Unsplash spend some days in Zermatt and I also was never to this place, I decided to meet him over there.
He was up in the mountains all week with his tent and took some fabulous shots. By the way, Joshua Earle started writing and wrote a good article about his passion and Unsplash here on Medium. Check it out.
