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A Walk Through an Empty Hotel

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  There isn’t much to talk about, but I want to share a few thoughts and some background. When I travel to my cabin in the mountains, I cross the Czech–Slovak border for a short part of the trip. Right there stands an old hotel. I usually call it “communist style” — big, grey, ugly, built without any real architecture. These hotels were built during communism, and many of them are struggling today. People want nice places to stay, and these big concrete buildings are expensive to run and no longer in demand. Nobody really wants to stay in old retro hotels like this. I’ve been passing this place for a few years. Sometimes I stopped and took photos of the area around it — an old tennis court, abandoned cars, empty barn. Everything slowly decaying. This year I noticed that the back door was open. Last time it was closed, so I assumed someone had broken in. I’m not an urbex photographer, but I was curious if there might be something worth photographing inside. What you see here is the ...
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I Tried Full Frame… and Ran Back to Micro Four Thirds

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I bought a Sony A7III in September and sold it in November. Why? Honestly, a mix of curiosity and the desire for a change. I’ve been shooting with my Olympus OM-D E-M10 for nearly a decade—almost daily—and while I still love it, I felt like I wanted a little “spice.” After years of going back and forth (and a few chats with AI), I finally decided to try full-frame. My expectations weren’t even that clear… I just knew I wanted  something different . So I bought the A7III. I shot with it. And then—I sold it. The biggest reason? Image quality. Maybe it was just me, but the photos looked soft and a bit mushy compared to what I was used to. Sure, maybe a better lens would’ve helped, but I wasn’t excited about pouring even more money into a system I wasn’t bonding with. The results just didn’t make me happy. Color was another thing. Sony color isn’t bad; it’s just different. I’m sure I could’ve adjusted eventually. But what really surprised me was dynamic range. People rave about it, yet...
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Hey, Ostrava / Ahoj Ostravo

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  Hey, Ostrava Didn’t like you. Not at all. But I had to learn to breathe your smoke, to live in your noise. Didn’t like you, and yeah — there were years I might’ve said I hated you. You pulled me in deep, and you were dark, so dark I had to shut my eyes, turn away, pretend you weren’t mine. But somewhere, under the grime and the rain, I started to hear you. Your heartbeat under the concrete. Your breath in the rails. And now— I find myself coming back. Watching you shift, brick by brick, watching how I shift too. Guess I like you now. Yeah… I do. - - - Original czech version: Ahoj Ostravo neměl jsem Tě rád ale musel jsem se v tobě naučit dýchat a žít neměl jsem Tě rád a byly roky, kdy bych řekl, že jsem tě i nenáviděl byl jsem v tobě tak ponořen a byla jsi tak temná že jsem musel zavírat oči a utíkat od tebe a pak jsem tě začal chápat a rozumět ti a tak to je že se k tobě vracím a pozoruji, jak se měníš a jak se měním já mám tě rád (English version translated from Czech using Chat...
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