If there is something I miss from Scandinavia it’s the light. Magic colors in the evening and morning give plenty of opportunity for beautiful photos. I never really thought about that before I moved to Switzerland, but when I’m here I understand how lucky we are back home. Here in Zürich the weather is grey. Visibility is almost always down to a few kilometers, and fog is not very uncommon.

One of my goals for this year was to take a nice cityscape photo of Zürich to the backdrop of the Alps. The problem is, of course, that you almost never see further than the lake. I found that favorable weather conditions were rarer than I had imagined, and before April came I had been unsuccessful.

Then suddenly the skies decided to clear out an afternoon a few weeks ago. I dropped everything I was doing, grabbed the always-ready photo bag and went straight to my pre-scouted location to be used in this event.

Finally: Zürich and the Alps. Success!

Fun fact: There’s a lot of construction work going on in the city. In the above photo I can count almost 30 tower cranes. No economic crisis in sight in the rich city of Zürich.

My Indian neighbor, Ram, came along to get some photos of his own. That’s me hugging the tripod!