Five Years

May 10, 2021 | After The Great Journey, Thoughts, Updates

Today it has been five full years.
My life has been majorly shaped an influenced by my great journey and I still like to look back in awe.
 

So I decided to look into the things that happened after the great journey:

 

  • I was able to finish an apprenticeship as a software developer
  • With that knowledge I was able to help many people in customer service, which I now participate in shaping
  • I created this website and transferred the whole of my first blog here, plus translating every article into English
  • Unwary of my luck, I drove two (European) cars of the year, each of them coloured red
  • I opened my photography business and have shot pictures of quite a few families friends and weddings
  • I substantially upgraded my laptop and camera
  • Courtesy of my brother and his wife, I am the ‘funny uncle’ of a multitude of nephews and nieces
  • Never would I have thought to indulge in that kind of sport, but I went skiing for a week 3 times
  • My hobby is home cinema and gradually I have upgraded my setup to a whoopin’ 7.2.4 configuration and it makes me happy
  • Four times I have visited soothing Denmark now and each time it was a blast
  • I acquired the skill of sculpturing balloon animals to a certain level of proficiency
  • My collection of Blu-Rays (mainly purchased for uncompressed audio, mind you) rose to a number of 284 movies and series
  • I starred in 3 stage plays at a local amateur theatre
  • Many series I have finished these years, and some stories were just right for me at that moment, which I am grateful for
  • But the most important and awe-inspiring thing is the time I have spent with my friends. The old ones, the new ones, the fleeting ones, the staying ones, all of them who I trust, who I share my life with and make our time worth double, triple and quadruple with!
Surely, there were some bad days. Where I was floating and did not know what to do. But they passed just like clouds after the rain.
And you were with me, my family and my friends. You are witnesses of the name of this blog and you are shaping the way Sir Oliver Evolves! 

What happened in 2020?

Dec 30, 2020 | After The Great Journey, Photos, Thoughts, Updates

Indeed. What exactly happened?

We have been looking back a lot, that’s for sure. Back instead of forward.
Maybe because we liked life more like it was. Maybe because we realised how well we have been doing until times had to change, until Earth was confronted with a new hobby, until we had to deviate from our loops.

So, now I will look back as well. Again, I must say, looking at my posting habit. Maybe it is because I have just skimped on taking care of my trusty blog, or maybe because it just wasn’t the time to write then.

But now we arrived at the point where I count my blessings of 2020.
Because as much as the year held back on fulfilling our expectations, as much it delivered. And there is visual proof!

My camera didn’t lay still and was at my side, witnessing many cherishable moments:

 

 

The things that grew

 

 

The places we have been to

 

 

The people (who let themselves be photographed)

 

 

Little Things

Just ask about some tales, and you shall receive. 🙂
Should you not have my contact ready, just write an email or find me on Instagram.

 

 

The sky above

And what about the future?

Indeed. What about it?
You tell me. Because I do not know.

What happened in 2019: Photographer Edition

Jan 6, 2020 | After The Great Journey, Photos, Updates

Ever since I got my first camera, I took photos. Many of them. Over 1500 of those you can look at on my blog.
So I am a photographer, which is a safe thing to say.

But there is a difference between being THE photographer or just a photographer.
The difference is the reason why you do it and the demands you keep in mind.

But there came a day I was asked to take certain pictures. And there came more of these days.
So I began to take photos as a hired person. On weddings, family or friends portrait shoots I was present with a certain purpose.
And it was fun, even though there is a lot to consider and to learn in that area.

I mentioned getting a new camera, which I needed to increase flexibility and overall quality of the result I would deliver.
So now I shoot full-frame and with a resolution that makes cropping a thing I don’t have to think twice about. 😀

My journey as a professional (mind the many ways to interpret that adjective) photographer will go on in this year and I am excited to further evolve.

I brought you some impressions of those days I was out there ‘on purpose’:

What happened in 2019: Special Friends Edition

Jan 5, 2020 | After The Great Journey, Photos, Trips, Updates

One trip I took in 2019 deserves a special place among this series.

As this trip combined some feels and some nostalgia, which I am into.
I visited my dear relatives for a few great days. Those relatives, mind you, who I talked about in older entries. Those days of the childhood, those carefree times, just coming along our parents and experiencing pure joys of childhood.

Now, I visited them on my own. After New Zealand, we had not seen each other that many times, so it was a lovely reunion.
With those ‘little cousins’, who are not as little anymore at all, we had some strolls where we used to go only with our parents.

And of course, all as planned, we took some pictures that night…

Monreal

 

One day I went with my younger cousin, both our cameras at hand, to a smaller town in the country. This one won a competition once, being a super cute and quite old town.

Also, speaking of the camera, I have news on that. For I got myself an upgrade in that department. Some of the pictures of this whole series were shot on my new tool, some on the old one. But I will elaborate on the whole ‘upgrade story’ in the next post. 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What happened in 2019: Friends Edition

Jan 3, 2020 | After The Great Journey, Photos, Trips, Updates

Friends are people you have a special relationship with.

Every now and then, you spice your life up with some undertakings together with said people.
I was lucky enough to have plenty of those and we had some great days with each other.

Without much ado, be welcome to marvel at some several adventures in pictures:

 

 

The North Sea

Zurich

(all shot using a smartphone)

Vejers (Denmark)

Passau

Bremerhaven

Minden Nights