recaps 2025 NATURE (Re)Discoveries SUMMARY Last year, I had the opportunity to spend much time in nature, and I shared some of my highlights in the recaps you can find in this thread. 🧵 #nature2025 #nature #photography #recap2025 #forest #snow #winter #dogs

recap 2025 NATURE (Re)Discoveries #12 LICHEN Worlds upon worlds A while back someone asked whether I knew that lichen are the result of a symbiotic relationship between fungi & algae. I frowned. 🧵 #OurFuture #lichen #photography #fungi #mycology #fungifriends #bacteria #symbiosis #nature2025

GOOD NIGHT 🌙 #photography #blackandwhite #night #moon #sea #beach

THE TURNING POINT Each of us can contribute a turning point for a world where no one can start a war or starve a people or destroy our natural world. Each of us can contribute to a world where people and planet thrive. #OurFuture #photography #streetphotography #filter #nowars #resist #climate

recap 2025 NATURE (Re)Discoveries #11 THE SNAIL TREE To discover a kind of snail I had never seen before & would never have expected to find on a tree boosted my desire to discover more about the natural world around me. 🧵 #photography #nature #snails #mollusks #forest #trees #snailtree #nature2025

recap 2025 NATURE (Re)Discoveries #10 BUG WATCH In 2025 I continued with my quest to connect to the insect world, which before 2024 had mostly been ignored by me or treated as a nuisance. The result so far? Amazement & anger. 🧵 #photography #nature #bugwatch #forest #climate #insects #nature2025

recap 2025 NATURE (Re)Discoveries #9 NATURE’S ART You could well argue that nature is the most intuitive, complex, inventive, whimsical artist in everything nature - including humans. 🧵 #photography #nature #trees #deadwood #paintings #patterns #forest #forestfriends #naturesart #art #nature2025

recap 2025 NATURE (Re)Discoveries #8 TREE BARK I think it was 2008 when I first took a picture of a tree bark. Between 2010-2022 I compiled several collections. And this year I added some new ones. Find a small selection in the 🧵 #photography #nature #trees #bark #naturesart #nature2025

recap 2025 NATURE (Re)Discoveries #7 TREES That dead AND living trees are home & partner to bacteria, fungi, mosses, lichen, spiders, ants, snails and quite a few bugs, to say nothing about nesting birds, finally sank in and amazed me repeatedly this year. 🧵 #photography #nature #trees #nature2025

A rainy day a cloudy night until the skies open, making way for the light. #photography #goodnight #moon #sky #night

HAPPY NEW YEAR and one where we choose to live. #OurFuture #newyear #photography #nature #climate #forest #forestfriends #trees

// THIS IS OUR WORLD. We messed it up. Let’s rethink and reshape it. Let’s restore our planet, create thriving communities and empowering economies. Let’s reconnect to ourselves, each other and our planet. HAPPY NEW YEAR 🌏🌍🌎

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🌍🌏🌎✊💙💚🖋️🧪🕊️🌈💪🦋

#DailyNature & #photography The secret forest hut :-) #forest #forestfriends #naturefriends

recap 2025 NATURE (Re)Discoveries #6 DEADWOOD & NURTUREWOOD I remember reading a post about how fallen trees serve as habitat for animals and plants. Curious, I inspected logs & tree stumps on my next walk & met this fellow. 🧵 #photography #forest #forestfriends #deadwood #nurturewood #nature2025

recap 2025 NATURE (Re)Discoveries #5 FERNS Nature! So full of beauty, abundance and uniqueness. The million ways fern leaves curl is just one example in billions, and it was an early indulgence I found this year. 🧵 #photography #forest #forestfriends #ferns #nature2025

recap 2025 NATURE (Re)Discoveries #4 THE FOREST Between May and September the beach is closed to dogs, and that was the beginning of a new love affair as I began to explore the forests on Usedom. 🧵 #photography #forest #forestfriends #nature #nature2025

#DailyNature & #photography Storm today: Sunshine, clouds, freezing wind, waves rising high, splashing crashing, the beach reshaped by the sandstorm. In the middle of it all stood seagulls as if patiently and valiantly defying the powers around it. #wildlife #seagulls #sea #storm #winter

recap 2025 NATURE (Re)Discoveries #3 Tulip symphonies In January & February my friend often bought tulips, and I became, once again, fascinated by the amazing transformations tulips (and many other plants) undergo in their lives. 🧵 #photography #bloomscroll #tulips #flowers #nature #nature2025

recap 2025 NATURE (Re)Discoveries #2 MAX, the dog I’ve met dogs before, but never long enough for anything like a relationship to develop, or to learn much about them. Max, a Labrador mix, is quite a study. 🧵 #photography #dogs #dogsky #nature #nature2025

recap 2025 NATURE (Re)Discoveries #1 THE SEA For the first time in over a decade, I had the privilege of spending a lot of time along the coast, mostly on the island of Usedom. What had been a connection, dating back to before my birth, deepened this year. 🧵 #nature2025 #photography #nature

#DailyNature & #photography Against the blue sky bathing in sunlight swaying in the crisp air, bare trees come alive, whispering stories of nature’s beauty and magic, hinting that, yes, spring will return. #winter #trees #nature #magic

#DailyNature & #photography The ocean full of beginnings full of life full of promise. #ocean #sea #BalticSea #usedom #sunset #nature #scape #stunday #seagulls

#DailyNature & #photography Long nights Late days. Togetherness with siblings & friends, at ease enjoyed. Togetherness with nature in solitary walks, at ease enjoyed. And always nature gives generously even at night sometimes in human-made light, like this soft, moist moss full of life. #moss

#DailyNature & #photography Fruiting thorn cup lichen, Cladonia unicialis, the ‘corals’ of the dunes & forests. Location: dunes, forest, island of Usedom, Baltic Sea #lichen #cladonia #cuplichen #fungifriends #mycology #mushroomsky #nature #corals #forest #forestfriends #dunes #BalticSea #usedom

Whoever you are, wherever you are whatever you believe, I wish you a special day, connecting to those you hold dear, and, if you can, enjoying the wonders of nature. #wilderness #landscape #nature #photography #naturephotography #forest #usedom #bluesky #holidays #winter #scape #connecting #trees

#DailyNature & #photography Mushroom magic in the forest. #fungifriends #forestfriends #forests

#DailyNature & #photography Huddling together.

#DailyNature & #photography Ivy, laden with winter berries and berries to be.

#DailyNature & #photography A leaf falling caught by a twig suspended in midair by a spider’s threads. Two snails choose a curl of the leaf as their lover’s nest. Everything is connected. #nature #snails #connected

#DailyNature & #photography —- Remind me what life is. ……….. ……. …. ……. #nature #life #RemindMe

#DailyNature & #photography We met this afternoon briefly eyeing each other with curiosity and suspicion. Would we have anything to talk about if we tried? We didn’t try instead we chose to walk alone and were soon gone. #birdoftheday #crows #encounters #nature #naturelover #birdsky

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning ‘Easy Town is not about clean, perfect, ordered or about looking away. I’m not sure what it will be about. I’m not sure Easy Town is possible. But I’d like to find out.’ #rethinking #OurFuture #urbanism #photography #etbs #resist #fungifriends

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 2, travelling ‘In the mother of Easy Towns, we’ll learn to be free and healthy and to enjoy life. In the town of music, we’ll feel the rhythm of the universe and learn to dance.’ #OurFuture #urbanism #photography #booksky #etbs #musicsky #music #cityplanning

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning WHY BUILD A TOWN AND NOT A CITY? #rethink #OurFuture #urbanism #photography #booksky #etbs #cityplanning #wildflowers #nature #overpopulation #towns Find book 1, beginning, here: www.easy-town-books.com/book-1-begin...

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning ‘I guess, we are still mostly driven by fear and anxiety. Only today, we don’t invent gods. Today, we make order and rules.’ #OurFuture #urbanism #photography #booksky #etbs #rethinking #healthcare #nursing #cityplanning #trees #fear #mono

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning ‘I’m actually pretty sensitive when it comes to drooling.’ #rethink #OurFuture #urbanism #photography #booksky #etbs #healthcare #health #nursing #wildflowers #family Find book 1, beginning, here: www.easy-town-books.com/book-1-begin...

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning ‘I’d love a town without cars. Is that possible? Is it desirable? Can our town cope with five hundred patients in wheelchairs? What does it take to make it happen?’ #OurFuture #urbanism #photography #booksky #etbs #cardependency #cityplanning

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning ‘This way the patients in Easy Town wouldn’t be shut away. They’d be at the centre of things.’ #OurFuture #urbanism #photography #booksky #etbs #design #cityplanning #lichen #fungifriends #patients #health #healthcare #arts #crafts #education

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning ‘I’d like to see an interesting demographic mix.’ #rethink #OurFuture #urbanism #photography #booksky #etbs #demography #composition #cityplanning #lichen #nature

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning ‘One of our tasks will be to determine whether something like an optimal size for a town exists.’ #rethink #OurFuture #urbanism #photography #booksky #etbs #townplanning Find book 1, beginning, here: www.easy-town-books.com/book-1-begin...

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning ‘In the simulation, we’ll build a virtual copy of Easy Town. Whatever a particular team finds or suggests will be fed into the simulation.’ #rethink #simulations #OurFuture #urbanism #townplannig #cityplanning #photography #booksky #etbs

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning ‘Forms, shapes and patterns found in nature would be one of my starting points for any designs.’ #rethink #architecture #design #OurFuture #urbanism #photography #booksky #etbs

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning ‘So you do want a revolution?’ // #rethink #OurFuture #urbanism #photography #booksky #etbs Find book 1, beginning, here: www.easy-town-books.com/book-1-begin...

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning ‘Too many people believe that change is impossible, that the way our world is run follows some kind of natural law no one can break. Or worse: no one should break.’ #rethink #OurFuture #urbanism #photography #booksky #etbs #econsky #systems

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning ‘Over the last days, I’ve asked myself repeatedly: is it possible that we have become too blind to the fact that our codes and algorithms can’t solve every mystery let alone every misery on this planet?’ #programming #urbanism #photography #etbs

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning ‘All of this is utter nonsense. You’re not facing up to reality.’ ‘I never thought that facing up to reality means accepting inadequate practices.’ #rethink #OurFuture #urbanism #photography #booksky #etbs #reality

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning ‘Let’s find out whether something like a non-exploitative economy wouldn’t be just as alive as today’s rubbish spitting economies.’ #rethink #OurFuture #urbanism #photography #booksky #etbs #econsky #economy #business #rubbish #beer #forests

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning ‘You’ll have to give me a better reason to stick with exploitation than to fill some douchebag’s pockets.’ // #OurFuture #urbanism #econsky #photography #booksky #etbs #snails #nature

DAY 6, COMMUNITY prelude, quoting book 1, beginning ‘If we can identify what it takes to avoid every kind of exploitation while giving the greatest possible freedom to all market players, then we’ll have achieved something remarkable.’ #econsky #OurFuture #market #photography #booksky #etbs