Stay strong like the mountains! Happy New Year friends! 🥂

Calm years produce podcasts. Turbulent years produce conviction. Be prepared for a turbulent 2026, fellow plebs. Stay humble and vigilant. Happy New Year!

Calm years produce podcasts. Turbulent years produce conviction. Be prepared for a turbulent 2026, fellow plebs. Stay humble and vigilant. Happy New Year!

GM. This one is out of season, but who cares?

GM from the fat farm… you filthy animals. 🔫🎄

Merry Christmas, friends. Wishing you peace and good health. Stay hopeful, and take care of your families with love and respect.

GM. More moody shots because why not?

GM moody shot enjoyooors!

Observing the wild goats over the slopes of Pirin is such an experience.

This one was taken on this day, 6 years ago, on a pretty chilly morning. I think this was the last time I convinced my wife to join me for a sunrise shoot. 😂

GM. The week before Christmas is the hardest time to go to the fiat mines. But we still don’t have enough Bitcoin. 😩

Nothing beats an evening stroll in the forest while it’s raining.

If you like my work, but don’t want to spend sats on it, that’s ok. I’d still appreciate a repost tho. It helps me grow on Nostr. 🤙

Disclaimer: out of all the photos on my website, this is the only one where I used any AI manipulation. The image itself is real, but the sky was replaced with an AI-generated one using software called Luminar. It was an experiment to see whether AI could “fix” a poorly captured photo with a flat gray sky. That experiment answered the question for me, and I don’t want to touch AI tools for photography again. If I ever had to rely on them, I might as well stop shooting landscapes altogether. The point is the struggle, not the easy fix. Go there and struggle until you get good enough to stand on your own feet, as an artist and as a human being. P.S. This one’s for free in full resolution, if you happen to like it. You can just “right-click” save it.

Great video. I’m on the same trajectory. I’m done with corporations pushing the “own nothing, be happy” garbage. Linux is the obvious move. Open-source projects actually respect the user. Google, Microsoft, Apple - they can all get stuffed. The only proprietary thing I still use is Lightroom for photography, and I tolerate it because their masking tools are absurdly good, as you said. I’d like to self-host my site as well, but building everything from scratch is a heavy lift, and my SmugMug setup just looks too damn clean to ditch. What is easy, though, is quitting social media. That alone is a huge psychological win. Start there. Respect your time, your focus and your privacy. Invest in your own infrastructure the same way you invest in your camera gear. Because let’s be honest: subscription-based photo gear is probably coming, and a lot of photographers won’t even own their tools soon. The idea is dystopian to the core. But it’s 2025. You can own your website and your data on a home server, as well as your payment rails and your entire social media presence. Learn the tools. Own the stack.