Pavel P.

  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 ...

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...