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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, in 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, Aug 16, 2021 1:15AMMonday, August 16, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Hydrangea flower bed in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol, in late July of this year.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Aug 9, 2021 1:15AMMonday, August 9, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Railroad siding leading to the main Munich-Rome line in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol. With a puddle with a reflection of a very tall cellphone antenna and a mountain. Photo taken last week while on one of my daily walks.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Aug 2, 2021 1:15AMMonday, August 2, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Some kind of water lily-type plants growing on the surface of a pond in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol. Photo taken last week. Do you know what exactly these flowers are?

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Jul 26, 2021 1:20AMMonday, July 26, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

The Novotel Hotel at the Franz Josef Strauss International Airport in Munich, where I stayed overnight in late June.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Jul 19, 2021 1:20AMMonday, July 19, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Shadow self-portrait of my wife and me on the red clay tennis courts in Vahrn, South Tyrol, in mid-June of this year.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Jul 12, 2021 1:15AMMonday, July 12, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Helicopter and mountain in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol. Photo taken in May of 2021.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Jul 5, 2021 1:15AMMonday, July 5, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Elderflower tree in bloom in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol, in June of 2021.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Jun 28, 2021 1:15AMMonday, June 28, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

A solitary field scabious wildflower in an alpine meadow. Photo taken in early June in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Jun 21, 2021 1:15AMSunday, June 20, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Self-portrait in a reflection in a passing train window at Ostbahnhof in Munich last evening.

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Monday Video

Posted on Monday, Jun 14, 2021 1:15AMMonday, June 14, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

 This was one of the earliest videos I made after I learned to fly drones some years ago, in the Milland neighborhood of Brixen, South Tyrol. I was mainly just testing out the capabilities of my DJI Phantom drone, which flew quite beautifully, even with some wind.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Jun 7, 2021 1:15AMMonday, June 7, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Part of the platform at the train station in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol. Photo taken in May, 2021.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, May 31, 2021 1:10AMMonday, May 31, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

The supermoon of 25 May rises above Plose in the South Tyrol.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, May 24, 2021 1:15AMMonday, May 24, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Just the shadow of a plant on the sidewalk in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol, which I liked. Photo taken in early May of 2021.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, May 17, 2021 1:15AMMonday, May 17, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

One can judge the depth of this otherwise very clear pond only by looking at the shadow of this bit of floating green algae. The upper part of the photo is also under water, there is just a reflection of a mountain there (rather than the reflection of bluish sky in the rest of the…

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, May 10, 2021 1:10AMMonday, May 10, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Bought a friend a birthday drink this past Friday at an outdoor café at the Domplatz in Brixen, South Tyrol. I thought it looked nice in the late-afternoon sun. You can probably use your Eratosthenes-like skills to figure out exactly what time it was.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, May 3, 2021 1:15AMMonday, May 3, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

The springtime glory of a farmhouse in Vahrn, South Tyrol, on a rainy day last week.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Apr 26, 2021 1:15AMMonday, April 26, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

A shadow self-portrait shot in mid-March from a bridge above the river Eisack which roars through a gorge, with its melting mountain snows, through Franzensfeste, South Tyrol.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Apr 19, 2021 1:15AMMonday, April 19, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

My wife and I went for a snow hike on the massif named Plose in Brixen, South Tyrol, on Saturday. Here, she is climbing up a fairly steep ski run on the mountain. The mountains look deceptively small from a distance but have vast fields of snow and ice. It was not cold though.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Apr 12, 2021 1:15AMTuesday, April 13, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

There is a very unintuitive method of protecting fruit trees from a late spring frost (which can be deadly for fruit crops) on a day when temperatures fall far below freezing in the early morning: the trees with their blossoms and buds are sprayed (from a sprinkler system) with water which keeps freezing on them…

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Apr 5, 2021 1:15AMMonday, April 5, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Reflection of mountain in a school building in Brixen, South Tyrol. Photo taken a couple of days ago.

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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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