Today is the first of December and it's about 4 months since I made my last post here on the Hive Blockchain, but not only did I go (almost) offline here, I also stopped using my accounts on Twitter, Instagram and Vero ... until I started to slowly geting back online a couple of days ago.
Back in the Hive
This post is accompanied by some of the photos I have taken in the past months while being offline. Of course, I want to make separate posts about these and more photo trips soon.
 [click for fullsize] Boring cloudless sky at sunrise - the weather was great in the Dolomites ... great for hikes, but not for photos. |
I didn't plan to go offline, especially not for such a long time. It just happened, but the longer it took the better it felt somehow and I think I needed a time out, to be honest. And while writing these words during my nightshift, I still don't know if I will publish this post in 2022 or in 2023 ... of course, it will be 2022 and even today, and I have to apologize to you for leaving without saying anything.
 [click for fullsize] The path around the Tre Cime di Lavaredo. Although it was still quite early in the morning, I had to be quick to take a photo without any people ... still had to clone out one person ;) |
In the beginning I said I went "almost" offline, because I still have been here almost daily to look through my feed, to vote and to chat with my good friend from South Africa, Zac Smith aka @papilloncharity, whom you all might should know, I think.
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Search Google for Passo Giau or Mt. Ra Gusela and you will certainly see tons of awesome images of the Mountain reflected in this little lake. |
Talking about Zac, if you don't already know Zac Smith yet, you should definitely pay him a visit because his blog and charity work in South Africa deserve much more attention - he's a passionate photographer who shows beautiful landscapes and animal / bird images taken around his home in South Africa ... please visit him and follow @papilloncharity.
And if you want to win some extra HBD each week you should also visit @combination, the account of the Papillon Foundation run by Zac - see right below.
Other than that I have been quite quiet in the Online world.
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 [click for fullsize] About half an hour from home there's a little mountain that I often visit. In the beginning of October the trees have already started to change colour. |
So, what were my reasons for going offline? I think besides a lot to do at home the main reason was my work which has increased in the past few years, and until about two months ago, when I finally have found a colleague who is able to do the most important tasks of my work when I'm not here, I even haven't been on holidays longer than a few days in a row.
 [click for fullsize] I have visited a huge waterfall in Italy, but I loved this little one much more, to be honest. |
So, in September and October I could consume my holidays from the past few years.
In the weeks off work I have been on quite some short photo trips around home and also to Slovenia and I have been in the Italian Dolomites.
 [click for fullsize] On my second visit to the Passo Giau in the Italian Dolomites I have had a little better weather :) |
There's still so much to do and after long days looking into the computer monitors, working through mountains of work and surviving boring meetings at work, I often just don't want to turn the computer on at home.
And I want to spend my spare time more out in nature, but I also want to try to post here again from time to time and show you some of the photos I have taken in the past months ... and also the ones that I will take on my future photo trips.
 [click for fullsize] The Tschaukofall is a beautiful waterfall in a gorge close to the border to Slovenia. |
So, now I'm at the end of this post ... next time you don't hear anything from me, you know that I am just somewhere in the mountains enjoying the offline world ... or ask Zac 😉
 [click for fullsize] The Šunikov vodni gaj / Šunik Water Grove in Slovenia is one of my favourite places for waterfall images as well as for walks in the mossy beech forest there. |
By the way: do you say "in the Hive" or "on the Hive"? When you mean the Hive Blockchain it would probably be "on the Hive", I guess, but bees live "in their Hive", don't they 🐝
 [click for fullsize] Especially after rains, the river in the Ysperklamm in Lower Austria is of a quite intense brown colour because of the humic substances in the soil. |
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All photos were taken with the Canon EOS R and one of these lenses: Canon RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM, Canon RF 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM, Canon RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, Canon EF 16-35mm 1:4 L IS USM, Canon EF 50mm 1:1.8 L STM, SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM.
If you are interested in the image data, I leave all EXIF and IPTC information stored in the pictures.
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Thank you so much for visiting my blog,
Photos and Text: @johannpiber | Johann Piber | All rights reserved - do not use without my permission
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