Radek Kucharski

A colour photograph of an elaborately carved wooden window of the brick-built Patan Palace in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. © Radek Kucharski / img.born2trek.com

I had a talk about #Nepal at the hospitable Sklep Podróżnika bookshop in Warsaw last Wednesday evening. I'm glad that so many people are interested in the country and were willing to spend the time at the bookshop to listen to me and watch my photographs – thank you very much!

#NepalNow #travel

Piece of Berlin Wall in Reykjavík, located near Höfði, the house where the Reykjavík Summit was organised during the Cold War. Mural, the painted artwork, by Jakob Wagner. Reykjavík, Capital Region, Iceland

Piece of Berlin Wall in Reykjavík

It is located near Höfði, the house where the Reykjavík Summit was organised during the Cold War. The painted artwork created by Jakob Wagner.

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#Reykjavík #Iceland #coldwar #ReykjavíkSummit

Oh yes, indeed it is! 😀

Boudhanath, the Boudha Stupa, the largest stupa in Nepal, Buddhist religious complex, UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the main Kathmandu Valley tourist attractions. The upper part of the dome and the gilded, golden spire with Buddhist prayer flags stretched from the top. Eyes on the cubic part, the harmika, represent all-seeing, wisdom eyes of the Buddha. Seen in the afternoon on a clear, blue-sky, early autumn day. Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal

"Selfie with the stupa"

Boudha Stupa, the largest stupa in #Nepal, a Buddhist religious complex and UNESCO World Heritage Site in #Kathmandu, photographed during my latest visit.

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#travelphotography #Buddhism #streetphotography

South Face of the eight-thousander Lhotse, with a lenticular cloud above its summits, viewed at sunrise from Pangboche. The Everest Region, Khumbu Region. The Himalayas. Sagarmatha National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Solukhumbu, Nepal.

I will speak about Nepal next Wednesday at Sklep Podróżnika in Warsaw and will show some of my photographs of this beautiful country. It has been 25 years the past summer since I first visited Nepal, and I've been going there frequently ever since!

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#Warsaw #traveltalk #travel

Two people sitting on a rock by a mountain lake, above the Preikestolen hiking trail and high above Lysefjord, beneath a blue summer sky and surrounded by the vast, barren landscape of the Scandinavian Mountains. Strand, Rogaland in Vestlandet, the Western Norway

Picnic high above Lysefjord

…and a dozen metres over Preikestolen, the pulpit rock.

After so many years of visiting Norway frequently I have reached this place at last. And what a weather I had!

#outdoorlife #ScandinavianMountains #LandscapePhotograhy #MountainPhotography #born2trek

So many times I have seen your impressive ability to build anew after calamities and misery and I believe your strength and capability to work for the common goals, will let you build a better and stronger home quickly.

Nepali flag painted on the street on Sauraha, Chitwan Dist. Nepal

My Dear Nepali Friends,

With deep sadness, I was catching the news on Monday and yesterday about the violence during the protests and about the victims. With hope, I read messages today, reporting peoples’ engagement in putting order and peace...

#Nepal #genZ

We saw the sunset a few times and watched the moonrise. Shooting stars were also there. And people: simply passed and greeted and those who were met and will be well remembered.

And above all, traces of all what happened were deeply inscribed in ourselves and will stay with us forever.

We were on the way for 15 days covering the distance of over 120 km with about 5000 m of total ascent and the same of the descent. Following the trail we picked and ate a few thousand of blueberries and a bit less of wild blackberries and raspberries.

On the trail in Beskidy with my eight-years-old daughter

#parenting #travelwithchildren #born2trek #born2travel #trekwithchildren #fatheranddaugther

The top of a high, modern residential building photographed against the clear, blue sky. The tower has quite an unique construction as its top is cylindrical and it stands on the cuboidal lower, main part.

Neuer Henninger-Turm in #Frankfurt, Germany

There is an interesting story behind construction of this modern residential #skyscraper, which replaced an old tower, that was a high grain silo of a similar height and shape.

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#architecture #modernarchitecture #architecturephotography

Colour photograph of a 16th century building. It is Humayun's Tomb, the burial place of the Mughal Emperor Humayun, Mirza Nasir al-Din Muhammad. This red sandstone and marble mausoleum is an example of the early Mughal architecture in northern India, an important monument of Delhi and the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed on a sunny, blue-sky, winter day, from the Indo-Persian style garden, the charbagh, with the fountain in the foreground. National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, India

Humayun's Tomb, my favourite monument in Delhi

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#India #photography #architecture #history #UNESCO #WorldHeritageSite #Delhi #NewDelhi #SouthAsia #architecturephotography

Photograph of a small flowering plant clearly blooming early in the spring as there are brown, fallen, previous season leaves below its star-shape, violet colour single flower. Deciduous forest.

Blooming common hepatica photographed early in the #Spring a few year ago in the deciduous forest near Stręgielek village of the Masurian Lake District, #Poland

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#photography #nature #naturephotography #flowers #flowerphotography #wildflowers #ayearforart #botany

Thank you, Gerri. I'm glad you like it and I'm grateful you wrote this!

Vivid sunrise light glows red and orange over a cracked boulder on the coast of New Zealand.

Probably the most photographed rock on the southern coast of New Zealand. This boulder looks like a prehistoric egg broke open, a relic of the past.

I’ll be speaking about seascapes on Sunday the 9th for Out of Chicago Live. Still time to register!

#bluesky #landscape #newzealand #seascape

A pair of relatively big birds sitting in the deep green grass, on the edge of a cliff. There is dark blue water below them with another bird flying, not really in focus. The sitting birds are generally white, have long bills, and blue eyes contrasting with slightly yellow heads. It seems they were photographed from a short distance.

A pair of northern gannets on a sheer grassy slope above a rocky cliff of the Mykineshólmur island with Atlantic Ocean below. #FaroeIslands, North #Atlantic, Kingdom of #Denmark

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#birdwatching #birding #birds #birdsphotography #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Foroyar

Boatman crossing the Rapti River on a traditional wooden dugout canoe. The boat is moved by pushing a long pole against the bottom of the river, as it can be seen here. In the area, the boats are usually made of single silk cotton tree trunks, and are widely used. The Rapti River (East Rapti River) makes up the Northern border of the Chitwan National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A sunset view, with the man's silhouette backlit by the setting sun reflecting in the water. Sauraha Village, Chitwan District, Bagmati Province, Nepal. Colour photograph.

Boatman from Chitwan

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#sunset #silhouette #backlit #backlight #photography #photographyisart #wallart #walldecoration #ayearforart #wallartphotography #travelphotography #streetphotography #sunsetphotography

A mountain landscape colour photograph with many sharp, rocky, snow-capped mountains in the view and some colourful Buddhis prayer flags in the foreground. It is the view from the high Himalayan mountain pass, Kongma La (5529m). View towards the West: Cho Oyu (8188m), the 6th highest mountain in the world is on the left, under the cloud here. Tenzing Peak is also visible, among some other peaks. Three Passes Trek, Sagarmatha National Park – a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Khumbu, the Everest Region, Himalayas. Solukhumbu, Nepal. Some of the peaks are marked with labels in this picture.

View towards the West from Kongma La (5529m) in the Everest Region

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© Radek Kucharski

#mountainscape #photography #mountains #Himalayas #trekking #hiking #trekkinginNepal #MountEverest #EverestRegion #landscape #mountainphotography #landscapephotography

Colour photograph of a pink flower on a tree.

Rhododendron of the Himalayas
Langtang Valley, Nepal

#naturephotoraphy #photography #flowers #spring #flowerjphotography

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A monochrome, grayscale photographe of a shade on a sanstone floor inside the 17th century tomb. It is the shadow of a jaly, a stone screen, covering a large window of the tomb. The shade reflects the pattern of the lattice of the screen and it is caused by the natural sun of the light.

Shadow of a jali, the sandstone latticed screen, in Humayun's Tomb

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#monochrome #monochromephotography #photographyisart #wallart #wallartphotography #ayearforart #bnw #greyscalephotography #architecturephotography #photography #homedecoration

A colour photograph; landscape of barren mountains, clearly remote place, a valley with some shrubs and meandering river, photographed from a high point.

Niri Chu Valley seen from Nyalo Kuntse La in the remote part of Ladakh
Zanskar Mountains, Himalayas

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#landscapephotography #landscape #Zanskar #Himalayas #Ladakh #India #photography #photographyisart #ayearforart #remote #remotelandscape #hiking #trekking #mountains #mountainscape

Thanks for your comment! It is an extremely beautiful mountain. Fantastic for photography!

I'm glad you like it, Howard. Thank you very much for commenting!

A monochrome, greyscale photograph of a big, rocky, snow-capped mountain with a tiny, yet looking distinctively, cloud above it, shot against otherwise clear, dark sky. The mountain is called Taboche and is one of the Everest Region mountains, that are over 6000 m high.

Taboche Peak of the Everest Region

I like the cloud that usually hangs above this mountain.

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#photography #monochrome #bnw #landscape #mountains #landscapephotography #ayearforart #wallart #photographyisart #Himalayas #Nepal #greyscale #wallartphotography

Pacific Ocean waves

Waves from the Oregon Coast. I suppose it could be a wave from any coast :) It was fun getting into the water a bit (with a longer lens).

#photography #oregon #oregoncoast #waves

There is a mystery in this picture, Oto. I like it much! Congratulations!

A gannet looking up to the sky with a rock to the left and the blurred sea in the background.

Aren't they beautiful?
#Birds #Photography #Gannet

A closeup of Daphne bholua flowers photographed against dark, unclear background. The plant is one of the main shrubs, which bark is used to produce lokta paper – the traditional handmade paper of Nepal. Flowers of daphne, which are said to be poisonous, have intense scent. Needless to say, they have a very attractive look! Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal.

Spring in the Himalayas is approaching!

Flowers of Daphne bholua, the Nepalese paper plant photographed in the Annapurna Conservation Area.

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#plants #plantsphotography #photography #wallart #wallartphotography #naturephotography #ayearforart #photographyisart #nepal

Taj Mahal photographed early in the morning, lit from a side by warm rays of the early sun, reflected in water of a shallow, blue pool. A colour photograph.

Taj Mahal reflected in the garden's water pool

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#architecture #iconicarchitecture #photography #travelphotography #architecturephography #wallart #wallartphotography #photographyisart #ayearforart #reflection