FM4 Calendar - Supporting Mental Health
One of my photographs is featured in the FM4 calendar for 2025 - my photo represents calendar week 38. The overall theme of the calendar is "colourful" and creatives have submitted many wonderful interpretations, and the best part is that each motif - there are 53 in total - can be used as a postcard!
The reason why I particularly like contributing to this calendar is that every calendar sold supports an important project of Austria's most popular charity campaign "Licht ins Dunkel" - this time the net proceeds will go to Mental Health Days in Schools.
Mental health is such an important issue and it is never too early to start strengthening your own mental health and finding ways to support it. Mental Health Days discusses issues such as bullying, body image, depression, addiction and suicidal behaviour and breaks down taboos - and I am very happy to be a small part of this - when I was young there was no such support or sources of help.
Read more about the calendar (in German) here:
I would also like to mention that there will be two Pickmotion calendars for 2025 with my photos in them. I haven't received them yet and can't show them to you, but you can find them in the "Küste & Meer" (coast and sea) and "Wien" (Vienna) editions.
2024 Recap
I would like to keep it short and say a big thank you to everyone who visited my blog this year and hopefully got a bit of inspiration and motivation to be creative. I am truly grateful to each and every one of you who enjoyed reading my thoughts and joining me on my travels.
You especially seemed to like my analogue story - I can already guarantee that you will see more analogue photography next year as it is one of the most favourite ways to take pictures at the moment. One of my favourite blog posts was the one about my Leica Minilux. I got such a lovely response from the son of the previous owner, which was definitely one of my highlights.
I am also very grateful to have been able to shoot content for Hetkinen again as a brand ambassador and to have spent several months supporting this great brand by creating reels and product shots.
2024 was a great photographic year, not only because I got to see new places in Europe, but also because Pickmotion released a couple of postcards with my photos on them. One in particular sold surprisingly well, so for the first time I was able to cover my Adobe licence costs with money from photography.
For 2025, I hope to have enough time to continue working on these small fun and personal projects that fill my heart with joy. I am still very passionate about all the things I can still learn, discover or write about and I hope you will continue to follow my journey.
Thank you again for being here and supporting me. I wish you a wonderful new year filled with creativity, health, happiness, love, magic and everything else you wish for!
