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It’s that time of the year again: since 2018 we have shared our most memorable shots of the past twelve months with each other. Now in its fifth iteration, the “Most memorable shot” has become a tradition we cherish at the beginning of each new year. No matter whether you’re a member of the Commons Photographers User Group or not, please feel invited to share your most memorable picture of 2022 on this page. I’ll start:

Frank Schulenburg

In September, my wife and I went on a vacation to see some of the gardens of Normandy. During that trip, we stopped in Rouen, the capitol of Normandy, where I had lived and studied for a while when I was younger. We only had about an hour and a half to find some food and for me to take a couple of photographs. So I suggested to see the cathedral, which some of you might know from Monet's paintings. To me, it was an emotional moment to be back to a city where I had spent a considerable time in my earlier life. Back then, I actually thought that I would end up living in France, given how much I love the French culture and language. Now, living so far from Europe, I always cherish the moments I can spend there, in particular when I have so many memories of a place as is the case with Rouen. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 20:44, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Joe Mabel

So many to choose from this year, and so varied: everything from documenting some recently discovered murals in a former speakeasy to capturing the flight of a paraglider… and an eagle. But I'm going for this one because, in what was at times a rough year, it was great to get back to one of my favorite places in the world, Cape Perpetua on the Oregon Coast, and I think this image does it justice. - Jmabel ! talk 22:02, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Martin Falbisoner

As busy as 2022 was for me, not much happened in terms of serious photography. I was simply lacking both time and energy. A real personal highlight was my family's Norwegian fjords cruise that we all fondly remember - including the pictures that I took. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 22:29, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Herbert Kikoy

This photograph is quite unexpected since I intended to cover a motocross race on this day. Lucky for us that the horseback race was just beside the motocross racetrack. One more thing, this photo also bags Photo of the Year on our photography club.- herbertkikoy ! talk 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Marcus Cyron

The last years were busy, but due to the pancemic situation, since January 2020 I was not much away to take pictures. In summer 2022 it all should change. I requested an accreditation for the Beach handball world chamionchips the year on Crete. And I got the accreditation. But the person in charge forgot to inform me. So when I got the "go", it was too late, much too expensive to go. And then, the miracle, the wonder happened! "My" german women's team won gold. And in an unbeleavable strong manner. And only around 2, 3 weeks later, they also won gold at the World Games. And I was not there, only every day for long hours in front of my laptop and following the matches via Youtube. A month later then, I had an accreditation - for the German championships in Cuxhaven. And so there I was, took 1000s of images of all teams there, of legends of the sport, of newcomers, of players, coaches and officials (so for example, this image of one legend of the beach handball sport, Alex Gehrer also could have been my chosen image). And before the victory ceremony took place, I finally got my shot of the winning team! Gotcha! It is not the best image, by far not. There was not much time and as usual at those events, one unsoicial, selfish and uncooperative photographer disturbed everything. How ever! I have my picture of the world champion team! Later last year, a father of one of the "golden girls", Jörg Gettwart donated to us some 1000s of images of the 2022 World chamionships, the 2021 and 2019 (where I took my image of this category in 2019) European championships, the 2021 and 2019 Under 17 championships and the 2018 EHF cup. So finally at the end all went well. We will see, what 2023 brings. And @Frank Schulenburg: - Frisco is on the schedule this year - and I will bring a camera with me! ;) -- Marcus Cyron (talk) 23:40, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Dietmar Rabich

Grand Prismatic Spring

It had always been my dream to visit Yellowstone National Park. In 2022, the time had come, and the trip started on June 9 in Germany. The COVID-19 pandemic had set up a few hurdles, but they were overcome on our trip through the USA and Canada. On June 13, we were in Vancouver, when a 500-year flood event occurred in Yellowstone National Park. The park was evacuated and closed a good week before our planned visit. In the following days it became apparent that the park would be reopened in the 25th calendar week. The closer the first of two planned days came, the more accurate the information became. Word then came that the park would reopen on June 22 - for vehicles with an even ending number. Our rental car had an 8 on the end! So the scheduled June 21 lapsed, but on June 22, after waiting more than 2 hours at the entrance, we were finally able to enter the park. The pictures reflect the diversity of the oldest national park in the USA. The Grand Prismatic Spring was a colorful highlight. (Unfortunately, the photo does not reflect one thing: the inimitable smell of sulfur.) --Dietmar Rabich (aka XRay) 💬 06:21, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
P.S.: There were a number of very memorable moments this year, but not all of them can be expressed by a picture. The refugee situation in Europe has left a very deep impression. It is a topic I have been observing for years, but this year there was a sad climax with the war in Ukraine. There are so many people who are forced to leave their homes. There were several events and direct contacts that have moved me personally very emotionally. In view of unnecessary aggressions and wars, I am unfortunately at a loss for words.

Jeremy Ludlow

Until March 2020, two airlines (Emirates and Qatar Airways) flew Airbus A380s into my home city of Perth, Australia. I even flew on one of the Qatar Airways A380 services in September 2019. Then the pandemic struck, and the A380 services to Perth were replaced with flights operated by smaller airliners. Emirates resumed its A380 flights to Perth in November 2022, and Qatar Airways followed on 8 December 2022. Just before sunset on the latter date, I took this photo of the first Qatar Airways A380 to arrive in Perth in all that time. I then uploaded the photo to Commons, added it to the Qatar Airways article in Wikipedia, and it eventually became one of my most downloaded Wikipedia images for that month ... -- Bahnfrend (talk) 08:28, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Karsten Hein

September 2022, on my way back from Irpin, one of the cities where the Russian advance on Kyiv was halted. Whole neighborhoods there lay in ruins. Nevertheless, I met many people who were preparing for winter there. The bridge pictured had to be destroyed to stop the Russians. A side effect was that this left one of the cruelest Russian units stuck in the neighboring town of Bucha. The consequences are well known. -- KH32 (talk) 09:28, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Katie Chan

The passing of an era, and I was privileged to be given the opportunity to record this moment in history. They did say yes you can come at this time but then changed their mind in the middle of the night, thanks Joe, but we got there in the end! -- KTC (talk) 11:01, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Pierre André Leclercq

June 2022: This photo, taken in one of my favorite places, is a tribute to the first American biker entering Belgium at the Liberation in La Glanerie (Rumes, Hainaut, Belgium. Often I hike on a cross-border circuit between Rumes and Bachy (France) which takes us in the Pas de Monique. Rumes is a small border village located a few kms from my home. It is the starting point of a landscape route faithful to my roots. --Pierre André ^(talk) 11:38, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

DerHexer

This year a very easy choice, see the story below.

I've planned a sightseeing trip to Venice on my way to the annual photo documentation of the Swiss Junior National Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Locarno, Southern Switzerland. Some days before my travel, I randomly checked where the city in Italy is located which gives shelter to my friends from Ukraine: gymnasts and coaches from the (junior) national team and Kyiv gym club. It turned out to be the beautiful city of Ferrara which was almost on my way to Switzerland!

I did not only know the Ukrainians from 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires and 2019 inaugural Junior World Championships but also from a competition in Budapest where by chance the men's head coach of the gym in Ferrara had been one of the coaches for the Italian participants (coach on the right). Therefore, I had easy access to everyone who had to be involved for making a visit and taking private photos for the about 15 people in the Italian exile after the Russian invasion of Ukraine to give them some kind of memory of their current situation and meet again. Fortunately, we could arrange the visit with just some reschedulings of my trip.

As you can imagine, this was one of the saddest but also most heart-warming moments of my year. It was wonderful to see my friends again despite all the horrible circumstances. I will never forget sitting on the floor exchanging Ukrainian–English translated text messages with the headcoach Irina (photo) in the morning session to learn about their everyday life in exile. Everyone was very nice to me, including the Italian hosts who became even closer friends (and I'm invited to return to their gym this year!); of course, I also took private photos of the Italian athletes in the afternoon session which were not published. Some days later and still in Switzerland, I learned that the Ukrainians left their exile in Ferrara to Croatia (so I was lucky to have met them at all there!).

The Ukrainians used my photos for motivating their young athletes and sending wishes back home to friends and family (whereto most of them returned in late summer 2022, only some of them are still in exile in Croatia). And I was humbly asking if I could upload a selection of the training photos so that we could talk about their situation in Wikipedia, too. They agreed so that I could add some photos and facts to the Wikipedia article of their star, European and World Championship bronze medaillist Illia Kovtun. And I invite everyone to join me in using these photos in Wikimedia projects to talk about the situation of athletes in the exile during the war. Out of these published photos, the group photo is my most memorable shot. —DerHexer (Talk) 12:46, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Suyash Dwivedi

"True Friendship"

पिछले वर्ष, भारत के एक गाँव में मेरे द्वारा ली गई तस्वीर मानवीय भावनाओं से ओतप्रोत है और मेरे दिल के बहुत करीब है, जहाँ दो बचपन के मित्र (लागभग ८० वर्ष पुराने) कई साल बाद मिले और उन्होंने एक ही नजर में एक दूसरे को पहचान लिया, जहाँ एक मित्र शहरी जीवन व्ययतीत कर रहा (लेकिन अब भी अपने ग्रामीण जीवन को याद करते है) है वहीँ दूसरा आज भी अपने ग्रामीण जीवन का आनंद उठा रहा है। एक दूसरे के प्रति स्नेह और सम्मान को एक दूसरे की आँखों में आसानी से देखा जा सकता है। मै इस तस्वीर को "सच्ची मित्रता" का शीर्षक देना चाहूँगा। (Last year, this photograph taken by me in a village in India is full of human emotion and very close to my heart, where two childhood friends (about 80 years old) met after many years and they recognized each other with a single glance where one friend is leading a city life (but still misses his rural life) while the other is still enjoying his rural life. The affection and respect for each other can be easily seen in each other's eyes. I would like to title this picture "True Friendship".) -- Suyash Dwivedi (talk) 15:27, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

George Chernilevsky

Frank created a wonderful tradition: the most memorable shot. But for me, 2022 does not fit in one picture, too much has happened. 311 days of war left too strong a mark, so I made a small gallery.

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  Graffiti in Vinnytsia. A person unknown to me was able to support me morally with these graffiti at the beginning of the war.
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  Flag of the European Union on the Artynov Tower. Thanks to Europe for supporting Ukraine. This shot was taken at the beginning of the sound of the air raid siren.
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  This shot was taken on the birthday of my deceased son. On this day, he could have turned 26, but he will forever remain 25 years old... Artwork in memory of him.
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  On July 14, 2022, the Russian Navy launched missile attacks on the centre of Vinnytsia. 26 people died, including 3 children, and injured at least 202 others. Damaged house in Vinnytsia.
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  Flowers and children's toys at the site of the tragedy in memory of the killed children
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  My most useful stuff during a blackout in Vinnytsia.

Leonhard Lenz

It was the week of a university course on participation and mediation when Russia turned more and more aggressive towards the Ukraine. Two days before the attack started I went to the protest in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin. Then on the last day of the course I woke up with the pictures of the tanks crossing the border. During the breaks in the course I - and I think everyone else too - watched the news. At the evening I went to the Pariser Platz where more than a thousand people gathered. A truck came and lighted the Brandenburg Gate with the Ukrainian flag. Three days later on Sunday one of the biggest demonstrations in the history of Berlin happened with nearly half a million people in the center of Berlin. --GPSLeo (talk) 17:43, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Ainali

It's not a great image, but when two ferry cruisers were turned into temporary refugee homes in March, in my neighborhood, it became the most memorable image of the year.

Charles J.Sharp

My wife and I were lucky enough to visit the amazing country of Sri Lanka just before the political situation deteriorated in February 2022. The first place we stayed was the Sinharaja Forest. We did not find the range of wildlife we expected because of changing weather patterns - but the leeches were out in force. I followed this pretty common jezebel as it flitted from flower to flower. It wasn't till I got back to my room that I discovered the predatory lizard that had photo-bombed the shot. Charlesjsharp (talk) 22:17, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Kiril Simeonovski

This is something that surprised me a lot when taking images inside a rich monastery with four churches. While the other three churches were architecturally very ordinary, this one really stood out with its uniqueness. Churches usually don’t have a basement and a staircase leading to the entrance, but the architect of this one seemed to be very creative.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 12:33, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

CaptJayRuffins

2022 06 06 Conjunction above Great Wall at Queens Blvd & Yellowstone

2022 06 06 Conjunction above Great Wall at Queens Blvd & Yellowstone

I chose one with significance to me, a deliveryman from Great Wall was victim to a crazed customer in 2022, and I was a frequent visitor there. The customer held a grudge over 'duck sauce'. The parade of planets was beginning. (https://whenthecurveslineup.com/2022/05/03/2022-june-6-classic-nine-planet-parade-preview/) CaptJayRuffins (talk) 15:42, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Ailura

During the pandemic i nearly didn't take any pictures at all, but this summer i had the opportunity to visit the multi sports European Games in Munic together with other Commons Photographers from Germany and Austria. In the background you can see details of the Munich Olympic stadium which gave the event his motto "back to the roofs".

Matthias Süßen

I have always wanted to photograph the tax office in Kiel. In January 2022 the conditions were perfect.

Ermell

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  I always wanted to make a picture where only the towers or spires look out of the sea of fog. I launched the drone vertically into the fog and after a short time I got permanent error messages and warnings. The GPS was off. I quickly went down again and saw that the copter with sensors and optics were dripping wet. Thank God there were no short circuits.
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  Short time later I could make a quite useful photo. The fog wall had moved into the background.

Satdeep Gill

Angkor Wat with its reflection

It was my last evening in Siem Reap. I had been to see Angkor Wat twice before this but as it was the rainy season, it was always cloudy. But this final evening just before Angkor Wat was about to close for the day, I went for one final time and found the perfect lighting for this shot.

Kritzolina

The site of a train accident with local trains near Munich, on the S7, a line I often use

I take the invitation to join in, even though I am not a member of the User Group, as I love this tradition of sharing one memorable shot. Mine is not a beautiful picture and it might not even be the most impressive of the series for others, but for me this view shook me deeply. Two S-Bahnen (local trains) had entered the single track line from different directions and collided head on. One person died, ten others were seriously injured and more slightly injured. To the right you can see the depression the impact of one the trains left in the ground after derailing. You can also see how the tracks themselves got bent during the accident. I took the picture five days after the accident on the day the damaged trains themselves could finally be removed from the site. Somehow this picture drives a lesson home to me that these last years have been repeating - Catastrophes can happen anytime, anywhere. Things are breaking down, even in places you consider safe and secure. So - this time not a happy story, not a beautiful picture. But I have hope for a different picture with a different lesson next year! --Kritzolina (talk) 10:00, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Wasiul Bahar

City Center, Motijheel

A turning point in my wikimedia journey could be compared to 2022. I started participating in the wikimedia movement in 2018, but as the pressure of my studies mounted, I stopped. However, my elder brother, who is also a volunteer in the movement, persuaded me to upload that picture to wikimedia commons when I took it in 2022. I was a complete newbie back then. My brother pushed me to start contributing to commons because I had a passion for photography after I had already posted the image. Then I started frequently uploading media files to Commons. I initially focused on taking pictures of the scenery along the path to my school. But after that, I began an effort to get regular people to upload work to commons. I've uploaded dozens of pictures up to this point, but this one is my favorite. Even though I am aware that the image is not great, it sparked my interest in participating in commons.

Wilson

The time is now 6:24pm!

In April, i took a trip to the country of Cameroon and decided to return by speedboat via the South-Atlantic route. I had heard that it was a fun and not so distant ride.

Well, they didn't lie! Its just not the type of fun that you should attempt unprepared - like I was.

This particular picture, I took, when the speed boat conductor informed us that once the sun goes down, into the water, our journey must come to an end for security and safety reasons - insert shock face emoji. Almost immediately, the sun started to set rapidly as though it had heard him speak. We ended up spending the night on the Bakassi peninsular - Another chapter of fun they didn't tell me about initially!

In retrospect, and to be fair, it was an interesting trip. Perhaps just a little too much fun for one trip. --Wilson (talk) 15:12, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Poco a poco

Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), Ras Muhammad National Park, Red Sea, Egypt.

I had been diving in many different places but I hadn't seen any sea turtles and for me that would be one of the hightlights in terms of wildlife underwater. I looked for them in different countries in the Mediterranean Sea, but had no luck, in January 2022 I also tried in Tenerife, nothing. I went then to the Red Sea end of March with no expectations and I saw 3 turtles in just one dive! They are huge, swim majestically and actually they were not shy at all... an amazing experience that I can share with everybody. I uploaded 19 shots from that encounters and this one is my favourite.

Ivo Kruusamägi

Lakefront Lugano 2022

I had hardly any time to take photos in 2022, so there isn't that much to choose from. But this was also a year where I had a chance to travel a bit after several years of not having this possibility. So what comes to my mind first is this image with two men sitting and looking at Lake Lugano that I took during my brief visit to Switzerland.

Ziko

The Fifth French Republic

Hello, I see all those great images on this page, and... alas, I myself did not take many pictures in 2022, and those that I made are not really worth mentioning here. Please indulge me when I proudly present here a chart that I designed in early 2022. It belongs to a series of constitutional charts or charts of political systems. It was some work to figure out a basic scheme that can be used for different countries/systems. The files are SVG files in order to make it easier to translate and adapt them.

Darwin

Roccella tinctoria growing over basaltic cliffs, caminho da Entrosa, Arco de São Jorge, Madeira Island

I have always the impression that the memorable pictures I didn't took but could have taken are always more the the ones I took. A rare phenomenon of thermal inversion which submerged the valley I live in in a true sea of ground level clouds, which kept going up... A Muslim woman (on her back) entering his home in an historical Jewish building in Brussels, which is now in the "Petit Anatolie" neighbourhood - moments that live in my memory, but are lost because of wrong decisions of the photographer (me). But this shot was also a memorable moment, for sure.

On a rainy day of September, I and my 12 yo nephew went exploring a remote location of the island, in the quest for vestiges of ancient times. We didn't found a pirate treasury nor the bones of their unfortunate companions, but we did found a treasury. 500 years ago, urzela (Roccella tinctoria) used to be one of the most rare and precious productions of the Macaronesia islands, used to produce the most beautiful tonalities of royal purple, known as Orcein, a colour much appreciated in the colourful Renaissance times - as well as today. Tending to grow over the most inaccessible, sharp, vertical and windy cliffs, the art of collecting it was extremely risky, and often fatal. Along with the construction of the Levadas, it's considered one of the most dangerous human activities in the islands. Now, thanks both to a much welcome lack of interest in the resource, and a centenary path passing next to that cliff, it's just there - So, in the end, we did found our treasure, though we (obviously) didn't collect it 😄.

I find the photo interesting as well because it kind of looks like an horizontal view of a valley with small bushes growing on it, while it's in fact a vertical shot of the cliff above us, with the primordial urzela community peacefully living on it. Darwin ^Ahoy! 17:05, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Radomianin

My most memorable shots in 2022

1st place: Paulinzella abbey church ruin

65th place: Half-timbered mansion

My most memorable shot of the Paulinzella abbey church wasn't it from the start. When I took it, I was happy with the result, but I never thought that six months later it would become of great importance to others and me. But from the beginning …

Due to the pandemic, I have not visited the Thuringian Forest region for two years. All the more, I was looking forward to taking photos of the Paulinzella Abbey ruins and other buildings. The ruin itself is familiar to me from my childhood because I was born in this part of Thuringia and have spent my vacations there almost every year. Paulinzella, along with other places, was often a destination on hiking and biking trips. With a good photo of the abbey, it did not work out immediately during my three-day stay in late May; the light was too bad. Only on the last day the light meant it well with me and I had additionally luck with a dramatic sky. Thereby, Paulinzella was 28 kilometers away from my accommodation in Mellenbach-Glasbach, so I always had to get up early to take advantage of the eastern position of the sun.

Finally, with some of the photos taken in Thuringia, I participated for the first time in the Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 photo competition. However, my personal favorite was the subject of St. Catherine's Church in Mellenbach, of which I submitted three photos. In November, it was a huge surprise to me that one of the Paulinzella photos won the first prize in the German competition. In addition, my picture of a half-timbered house in Mellenbach also made it into the top 100. I didn't believe that out of more than 29,000 participating photos, mine would make it into the finalists, let alone the top places. Because there were so many great pictures participating that deserved a first place.

I would therefore like to thank the community, which voted for my photo in the preliminary and main jury: Thank you very much! -- Radomianin (talk) 23:00, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Rainer Halama (User:Wuselig)

Master Gerlachus (active in the 12th century): Stained glass window, from around 1170 CE, originally in Arnstein Abbey, today in the Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History. Besides beeing a photographer, I still engage in other activities in the Wikiverse. So I am quite active in GLAM which sometimes involves photographing art objects in museums. Yes, participating in contests like WLM and WLE can be more rewarding for a photographer if I want to show of my skills. Or as some of you have shown above if you can preserve history in the making. But trying to make a faithful reproduction of an artwork in poor lighting conditions can also be very challenging. I chose this image, because it is the first known signed image by a light-painter, a painter of stained glass. And one of the earliest Self-portraits. In a sense we all follow in the tradition of Master Gerlachus. --Wuselig (talk) 18:20, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Pimpinellus

Remnants of the historic nursery of the Hotel Empress Elisabeth in Feldafing at Lake Starnberg, Gardener’s House, Greenhouse, Cold frames, Apple and Pear trees, which we discovered on a MUC-Culture tour on December 29, 2022, just two days before the hotel closed. The nursery once provided fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers for the Empress Elisabeth and her court, which numbered 200 persons, during their summer stays at the hotel. From the middle of the 1870s until 1894, they spent 21 summers here, usually for several weeks. We have documented this cultural legacy, here the link. The hotel building is protected as a historic monument, however, the interior furnishings and the green house are not, and they will likely disappear during the course of the renovations. The photos of the green house and the hotel show one of the important functions of Wikipedia, namely, to document our valuable cultural heritage and to draw attention to its potential endangerment, or, if it is lost, at the very least, to remind us of what it once was. ----Pimpinellus((D)) • 17:16, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Fabian Roudra Baroi

In wildlife photography, the most satisfying moment is when the animals become your friend. But the experience I had while taking these pictures was unbelievable. I went to the park for photography as I was feeling a bit low after a hectic week. When I reached closer to the pond, I saw these ducks playing around with each other on the bank of the pond also in the pond. I clicked some photos from a bit far and tried to go as close as I can. Then I saw a fallen tree almost touching the pond water but it was still on the ground. The ducks were also much closer to that tree. So, I decided to go and sit on the tree branch so I could get closer to them and take some low and more stabilized shots. At first the ducks went little bit away from me, but after 5 min they started to become normal and as the time passed they again started to play but this time they were very close to me. I was facing the pond and there were ducks both in my right and left sides. Sometimes they came so close that I couldn't even fit their whole body with my zoom lens even with the lowest focus length. I was feeling like, I was a part of their team. I kept taking pictures and I didn't even notice when time passed by an hour. This was an wholesome moment for me as a photographer in my life, I would never forget it.

Z thomas

I was invited by Wikimedia Austria to take part at Wiki Takes Böhmerwald. I drove with Ailura along the countryside to take pictures of cultural hertitage, natural monuments and interesting points like this observation tower. It was her idea that i had to climb into the basement of this observation tower to take this look up.

Renardo de vulpo

Stempel vom Kalten Krieg

Rubber stamps I photographed during the opening of an exhibition about „Radio Free Europe – Stimmen aus München im Kalten Krieg“ (Radio Free Europe – voices from Munich during the Cold War). For my age group Radio Free Europe for decades was a symbol of psychological warfare, not unlike the propaganda campaigns in the current war just outside our doorstep. The means of propaganda, still, have certainly changed in the age of social media.

Stempel, die ich am 29. September 2022 bei der Eröffnung der Ausstellung „Radio Free Europe – Stimmen aus München im Kalten Krieg“ im Stadtmuseum in München aufgenommen habe. Radio Free Europe war für meine Generation über Jahrzehnte hinweg mediales Symbol einer psychologischen Kriegsführung, wie wir sie auch heute in dem Krieg vor unserer Haustür erleben, auch wenn sich die Mittel der Propaganda im Zeitalter der social media geändert haben.

Stampiloj, kiujn mi fotis dum la inaŭguro de la ekspozicio „Radio Free Europe – Stimmen aus München im Kalten Krieg“ (Radio Libera Eŭropo – voĉoj el Munkeno dum la Malvarma Milito) en la urba muzeo de Munkeno (DE). Radio Libera Eŭropo por mia generacio dum jardekoj estis simbolo de psikologia militado, kian ni spertas ankaŭ nun dum la milito tuj apud nia pordo, kvankam la rimedoj de propagando ja ŝanĝiĝis en la epoko de sociaj retoj.

Aristeas

The last years were difficult for my wife and me, especially 2022 was really exhaustive. In September we finally moved to a new flat in a new city. The move itself was again very strenuous. When I looked the first time out of the window of my wife’s new office, I saw that tree – an impressive multi-stemmed black pine which is placed there like an artwork, like a sculpture. I was immediately fascinated by the pine tree; somehow it has given me hope that we are in the right place now. Here you see it against the morning sun. (The preview looks too dark, please view it in full size.) I hope that the year 2023 will bring peace to the world, relief and rest to all of us, many beautiful experiences and – great photos ;–). --Aristeas (talk) 20:01, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Rhododendrites

Most Memorable Shot: Better Late Than Never Edition. I was somewhat less active last year than years prior. Less time for exploration, not much travel, but still lots of time with the birds. This is an ovenbird, a small warbler that builds nests on the ground called "ovens" and spends most of its time walking around the forest floor. They're nearly always in the shade, often difficult to see, and quite skittish. They're one of the bird species for which I long ago came to terms with the fact that a really good photo just isn't realistic. Then I saw this one near the edge of a forested peninsula, where some sun could get in. I got on the ground and was still for a while, and lo! it eventually walked over and into a patch of light. Probably not the most exciting shot of the year, but the one I felt most lucky for, I suppose. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  14:57, 21 May 2023 (UTC)