Author: reto

  • Effective Consulting

    Delivering Interim Management and Risk Consulting What does this business lingo have to do on my personal blog? Good question. Read on to unravel the mystery. Some history is here. Simply put, Megrow Pte Ltd is my current employer. In other words, it is the current platform on which I deploy my value proposition to…

  • weight management journey

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    where is the momentum? A few months back, I wrote about my weight management journey, aka my ‘easy weight loss’ regime. Two relatively minor adjustments to my diet and a more balanced exercise regime apparently did the trick. for the last two months, my weight remained stable That reads like good news, but in my…

  • reviving my Nikon F3

    reviving my Nikon F3

    Analogue Friday with the Nikon F3 Since the advent of digital photography my trusted Nikon F3 HP has not seen much daylight. Bluntly put, for the past 20 years this iconic piece of equipment rested peacefully in my Lowe photo-suitcase. This digital post is all about analog picture taking. Musings about digital photography are here.…

  • best of 2019

    My annual ritual of compiling and sharing the best photographs of 2019 (yes 2019…. I am slightly, just so slightly late to the party this time around). So here they are: 5 in colour and 5 in black and white “2019 was my year of black and white photography“ brief review I’m rather pleased with…

  • managing body weight

    I lost 5 kg by dropping two bad eating habits and slightly modifying my exercise regime. For once, I write about shedding bad eating habits and managing body weight. The usual travel and photography themes take a back-seat for the moment. the story long-term My body weight has fluctuated quite a bit over the past…

  • the annual ritual

    This is the yearly “my company has grown a year older” advertisement message. Head over to the Megrow website to read how the company has evolved and what Megrow and its partners have delivered to clients. And give Megrow’s podcast a try as well (see below).

  • A Month in MTB – Paradise

    This is my longest post ever… so much to tell and so much beauty to share. I decided to put it all into one post to give the story the necessary epic feel. July 2019 A brand new Scott Scale bike, work/holiday schedule under control, dry and hot weather in Switzerland, plenty of trails to…

  • The Return of the Isdal Woman

    I’m a fan of long-form reporting A very well-made, suspense loaded and sometimes thrillingly tense BBC podcast engulfed me early 2018: two journalists reported, over the course of ten episodes, their efforts to shed light on the death of an mysterious, unknown woman (the “Isdal Woman”) in Bergen, Norway, some 40 years ago. The story…

  • top 10 images from 2018 – the details

    photograph by photograph In a previous post I shared how I selected the 10 best photographs I took over the course of 2018. Now it’s time to dwell a bit more into detail and share my thoughts about each image. The sequence of images in this post is NOT a ranking, I simply use capture…

  • top 10 photographs of 2018 – the journey

    Originally inspired by pro-photographer Martin Bailey (website), I just compiled – what I most humbly consider – the 10 best photographs I took in 2018. My target was to have a “top10 2018 collection”, containing 5 b&w and 5 “colour” images. Adobe Lightroom (kind of a love-hate relationship) is a valuable tool to make cataloguing…