Funky. Ligerz. LightPainting.

Henry Purcell's piece "The Fairy Queen" is our new choir piece for the choir concert in May, and last week was choir week in Ligerz. We spent five days practising many hours a day, but also enjoying our time at this beautiful spot at Lake Biel.

Fun fact: Biel is at the border where the French and the German language "collide" in Switzerland. That's why everything is Semi-German and Semi-French, even the name of the city Biel/Bienne!

With a lovely view of the mountains and lake, Ligerz is truly a spot one should visit someday!

The only disturbing thing is the train line at the lake where a lot of intercity-trains passes. But after a while you get used to it.

In our free time, we jammed on the pianos, played some card games or werewolves or just sat and chilled, read some books and had a good time. But the last night my friend Laura and I took some light painting shots and long time exposures of the lake. Some turned out very special!

Just for those wondering: This was a 20s exposure and I moved my feet after 10 seconds. That's why they are transparent ;)

This was actually a long time exposure in complete darkness! One can even spot the stars on closer inspection.

Zermatt and the Fireworks of Zürich

Just after celebrating with my entire family last weekend, my parents and I left with friends to go to Zermatt for a week. You've probably heard of the Matterhorn, one of the most famous mountains in Switzerland which is in Zermatt. But there are not only many tourists taking pictures of that mountain peak; there are also many cool activities you can do like snowboarding and skiing, sleighing, hiking and partying in the evenings!

I snowboarded for two days, one day the weather was not that lovely and then a friend of mine came over who could neither ski or snowboard, so we went sleighing and hiking which was lots of fun too!

 On New Year's Eve, Johanna and I then went to Zürich to watch the firework and go to a nice reggae bar. It was really nice and the fireworks amazing!

One awesome week up in the Alps!

The weather was lovely, the entire week long! I went to Lenzerheide with my parents to ski and snowboard, a place in the Alps where we went for ten years. Maybe the snow was not the best, but the sun was shining all the time. The location Lenzerheide is enormous. There are so many ski lifts that you cannot go on each and every one in one single week!

We resided in a youth hostel, where we meet up with the same people every year. The place is right next to the ski piste which means that you don't need to walk in the morning to get to the piste and in the evening you can just snowboard back down right to the entrance of the hostel!

I took lots of panoramas with my drone this week which I've put together as so-called "Little Planets". I think they turned out quite nicely :)