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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, 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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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Mar 29, 2021 1:10AMMonday, March 29, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Trees in the late afternoon in early March in front of a mountain in Vahrn, South Tyrol. They will all soon be full of leaves.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Mar 22, 2021 1:25AMMonday, March 22, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

My friend Stephen Asma painted this oil portrait of Frederica Krüger at my request. I had just brought it home from the framer’s shop and propped it against a bookshelf in my office when Freddy arrived and proceeded to examine it very carefully. Then I asked her to turn around for a second and took…

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Monday Video

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

 I shot this slow-motion video in January of 2017 in Vahrn, South Tyrol.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Mar 8, 2021 1:10AMMonday, March 8, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

At the deserted millennium-old abbey at Neustift in the South Tyrol a couple of days ago.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Mar 1, 2021 1:20AMMonday, March 1, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Late afternoon one day last week as I was waiting for a train at the station in Bruneck, South Tyrol.

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Monday Photo

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

Water flowing out of a small hole in a concrete wall and immediately freezing. Photo taken yesterday near Mittewald, South Tyrol.

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Monday Photo

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

Sunrise on a foggy day in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol, in January, 2021.

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Monday Photo

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

Photo taken two days ago of the main church in the town of Welschnofen in the Eggental valley of the South Tyrol.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Feb 1, 2021 1:20AMMonday, February 1, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

This is the vapor trail of Aegean Airlines Flight A3840 from Athens to Dusseldorf as it flew over the South Tyrol. I took the photo from my office window at 11:40 am on Saturday and noted down that: “It is an Airbus A321-271NX aircraft, flying at 36,000 feet at a ground speed of 395 knots…

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Jan 25, 2021 1:15AMMonday, January 25, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Photo taken from a train window going from Brixen to Franzensfeste in the South Tyrol in January of 2020, back when the prospect of traveling by rail did not make one nervous.

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Monday Photo

Posted on Monday, Jan 18, 2021 1:15AMMonday, January 18, 2021 by S. Abbas Raza (Weekly Photo)

Doormat on my balcony with a fresh sprinkling of snow 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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