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S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Originally from Karachi, Pakistan, Abbas has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering & computer science from Johns Hopkins University, and a graduate degree in philosophy from Columbia University. He lives with his wife, Margit Oberrauch, and their feline friend, Frederica Krueger, near the small, very beautiful city of Brixen in the Italian Alps. Email: s.abbas.raza.1 [at] gmail.com

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Mar 21, 2022 1:10AMMonday, March 21, 2022 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Scene at the airport in Helsinki in February, 2022.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Mar 14, 2022 1:15AMMonday, March 14, 2022 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Self-portrait in a passing train window at the Munich East train station in February, 2022.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Mar 7, 2022 1:20AMMonday, March 7, 2022 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Found Frederica Krueger sleeping in my bed like this.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Feb 28, 2022 1:15AMMonday, February 28, 2022 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Trees from a train window at the station at the Brenner Pass between Italy and Austria, three weeks ago.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Feb 21, 2022 1:15AMMonday, February 21, 2022 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Saw this from my train window while entering Munich a couple of weeks ago.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Feb 14, 2022 1:20AMMonday, February 14, 2022 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

A view of Helsinki, Finland from an aircraft just before landing at the airport there. Photo taken on February 3, 2022.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Feb 7, 2022 1:15AMMonday, February 7, 2022 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

I awoke yesterday morning to find these ice crystals which had formed on the glass of my window at Akola, near the town of Ii in northern Finland, which is pretty much on the arctic circle (65.3° North latitude). The temperature outside was around -21° C (or around -6° F). The wind chill factor? Don’t…

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Monday Photo: Let It Snow

Posted on Monday, Jan 31, 2022 1:20AMMonday, January 31, 2022 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Snowfall in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol. Photo taken in November of 2019.

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Monday Photo: Venus rising

Posted on Monday, Jan 24, 2022 1:15AMMonday, January 24, 2022 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Taken from my window an hour ago.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Jan 17, 2022 1:25AMMonday, January 17, 2022 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Just a spider spinning a web in Amsterdam that I passed by on the street in November of 2021, stopping for a second to take this photo.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Jan 10, 2022 1:15AMMonday, January 10, 2022 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Water freezing on a chain link fence near Mittewald, South Tyrol.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Jan 3, 2022 1:15AMMonday, January 3, 2022 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

The massif named Plose towers over the east side of Brixen, South Tyrol, as seen from my window in Franzensfeste. Photo taken in the early morning a couple of weeks ago.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Dec 27, 2021 1:15AMMonday, December 27, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Water flowing over rocks in the river Eisack last week as it makes its way through Franzensfeste, South Tyrol.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Dec 20, 2021 1:15AMMonday, December 20, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

View of the Dolomites from the Villanderer Alm in the South Tyrol. Photo taken last week during a walk in the mountains. Happy holidays!

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Dec 13, 2021 1:15AMMonday, December 13, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

A vineyard in Bozen, South Tyrol, from a friend’s balcony. Photo taken this past Friday evening.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Dec 6, 2021 1:20AMMonday, December 6, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

I went to the station in Brixen, South Tyrol, to pick up a friend who arrived from Venice on this train. Photo taken on November 9, 2021.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Nov 29, 2021 1:20AMMonday, November 29, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

A colorful denizen of Brixen, South Tyrol. Photo taken last week.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Nov 22, 2021 1:15AMMonday, November 22, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Early morning sky above the Eisacktal valley in the South Tyrol in October of 2021.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Nov 15, 2021 1:15AMMonday, November 15, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Last week, my wife and I were in Amsterdam for a couple of days. The historic house we were staying in, called Castrum Peregrini, belonged to the artist Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht who hid two Jewish people in it from the Nazis during WWII. This is one of her paintings that the…

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Nov 8, 2021 1:15AMMonday, November 8, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Photo taken yesterday evening at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam.

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The original site was designed by S. Abbas Raza in 2004 but soon completely redesigned by Mikko Hyppönen and deployed by Henrik Rydberg. It was later upgraded extensively by Dan Balis in 2006. The next major revision was designed by S. Abbas Raza, building upon the earlier look, and coded by Dumky de Wilde in 2013. And this current version 5.0 has been designed and deployed by Dumky de Wilde in collaboration with S. Abbas Raza.

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