{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "Adam Továrek", "home_page_url": "https://adamtovarek.com/", "feed_url": "https://adamtovarek.com/feed.json", "authors": [ { "name": "Adam Továrek", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/about.html" } ], "language": "en", "items": [ { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/tenerife-ii.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/tenerife-ii.html", "title": "Tenerife", "summary": "Tenerife, Spain: When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important. - J. Krishnamurti", "content_text": "Tenerife, Spain · 28.29° N, 16.63° W\n\nWhen one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.\n- J. Krishnamurti", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/tenerife-ii/dsc09667-2-2400.webp", "date_published": "2026-02-05T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/egypt.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/egypt.html", "title": "Egypt", "summary": "Egypt: Cairo at sunset from Al-Azhar Park, and the pyramids of Giza, which are not the silent, empty place you see in photos.", "content_text": "Egypt · 30.04° N, 31.24° E\n\nCairo at sunset, from Al-Azhar Park.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/egypt/dsc08023-2400.webp", "date_published": "2025-11-15T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/singapore.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/singapore.html", "title": "Singapore", "summary": "Singapore. One of my favourite photos so far, shot with a drone over one of the richest countries in the world. The rules are strict: no feeding…", "content_text": "Singapore · 1.35° N, 103.82° E\n\nSingapore. One of my favourite photos so far, shot with a drone over one of the richest countries in the world. The rules are strict: no feeding pigeons, no chewing gum, a fine for everything.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/singapore/onp04539-2400.webp", "date_published": "2025-07-18T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/malaysia.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/malaysia.html", "title": "Malaysia", "summary": "Malaysia: The first photos are from Kuala Lumpur. Thai, Malay, Indian and Chinese food on the same street. Mosques next to Buddhist temples. A real mix of…", "content_text": "Malaysia · 4.21° N, 101.98° E\n\nThe first photos are from Kuala Lumpur. Thai, Malay, Indian and Chinese food on the same street. Mosques next to Buddhist temples. A real mix of cultures, and that's what gives the city its own rhythm.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/malaysia/dji-0670-2400.webp", "date_published": "2025-06-30T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/norway.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/norway.html", "title": "Norway", "summary": "Norway: Places without people. Just quiet.", "content_text": "Norway · 60.47° N, 8.47° E\n\nPlaces without people. Just quiet.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/norway/onp08777-2400.webp", "date_published": "2025-05-13T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/hungary.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/hungary.html", "title": "Hungary", "summary": "Hungary: We drove to Hungary. One day in Budapest, more a drive-through than a stop; there wasn't much time.", "content_text": "Hungary · 46.83° N, 17.73° E\n\nWe drove to Hungary. One day in Budapest, more a drive-through than a stop; there wasn't much time.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/hungary/onp00416-2400.webp", "date_published": "2025-05-08T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/dovrefjell.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/dovrefjell.html", "title": "Musk Oxen of Dovrefjell", "summary": "Norway:", "content_text": "Norway · 62.27° N, 9.55° E", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/dovrefjell/onp08038-2400.webp", "date_published": "2025-04-14T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/sri-lanka.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/sri-lanka.html", "title": "Sri Lanka", "summary": "Sri Lanka rises fast: palm-lined beaches in the south, tea hills and mist inland. Tuk-tuks, stray dogs and fruit stalls line every road.", "content_text": "Sri Lanka · 7.87° N, 80.77° E\n\nSri Lanka rises fast: palm-lined beaches in the south, tea hills and mist inland. Tuk-tuks, stray dogs and fruit stalls line every road.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/sri-lanka/onp05096-2-2000.webp", "date_published": "2025-02-17T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/yala-national-park.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/yala-national-park.html", "title": "Yala National Park", "summary": "Sri Lanka: Yala National Park, Sri Lanka. The place where I feel like a wildlife photographer and mostly just hope something shows up.", "content_text": "Sri Lanka · 6.37° N, 81.52° E\n\nYala National Park, Sri Lanka. The place where I feel like a wildlife photographer and mostly just hope something shows up.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/yala-national-park/onp05681-enhanced-nr-1365.webp", "date_published": "2025-02-08T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/tenerife-remote-work.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/tenerife-remote-work.html", "title": "Tenerife", "summary": "Tenerife, Spain: Three weeks of remote work in the south of Tenerife. Laptop in the morning, ocean in the afternoon.", "content_text": "Tenerife, Spain · 28.06° N, 16.73° W\n\nThree weeks of remote work in the south of Tenerife. Laptop in the morning, ocean in the afternoon.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/tenerife-remote-work/onp02691-2-2400.webp", "date_published": "2024-12-12T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/new-york-city.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/new-york-city.html", "title": "New York City", "summary": "USA: New York hits you before you've had time to breathe: noise, movement, energy. In photos it looks iconic and calm. In person it's raw, fast and more…", "content_text": "USA · 40.71° N, 74.01° W\n\nNew York hits you before you've had time to breathe: noise, movement, energy. In photos it looks iconic and calm. In person it's raw, fast and more intense than I expected.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/new-york-city/onp09587-2400.webp", "date_published": "2024-11-21T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/rome.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/rome.html", "title": "Rome", "summary": "Italy: Rome is built in layers: ancient stone, medieval courtyards, baroque facades, and traffic that keeps it all in the present. Inside the Pantheon,…", "content_text": "Italy · 41.90° N, 12.50° E\n\nRome is built in layers: ancient stone, medieval courtyards, baroque facades, and traffic that keeps it all in the present. Inside the Pantheon, light falls through the dome in a single circle. A few streets away it's scooters and coffee.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/rome/onp01586-1365.webp", "date_published": "2024-10-27T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/georgia.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/georgia.html", "title": "Georgia", "summary": "Georgia takes you from the streets of Tbilisi to the raw Caucasus in a few hours. In Kazbegi (Stepantsminda), Mount Kazbek towers over the valley,…", "content_text": "Georgia · 42.32° N, 43.36° E\n\nGeorgia takes you from the streets of Tbilisi to the raw Caucasus in a few hours. In Kazbegi (Stepantsminda), Mount Kazbek towers over the valley, with Gergeti church below it as if placed there for one photo. At the other extreme is Chiatura, a mining town squeezed into a valley, known for the cable cars that once carried miners to work. It still feels like a living piece of the Soviet era.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/georgia/dji-0703-2400.webp", "date_published": "2024-07-18T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/tenerife.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/tenerife.html", "title": "Tenerife roadtrip", "summary": "Tenerife, Spain: My friend Honza and I wanted a few days of warmth and sea. Tenerife it was. We landed in the south and rented a Toyota Proace City, small enough to…", "content_text": "Tenerife, Spain · 28.27° N, 16.64° W\n\nMy friend Honza and I wanted a few days of warmth and sea. Tenerife it was. We landed in the south and rented a Toyota Proace City, small enough to drive, big enough to sleep in.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/tenerife/onp07237-1365.webp", "date_published": "2024-03-26T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/jordan.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/jordan.html", "title": "Jordan", "summary": "Jordan switches fast between empty stone desert and green strips along the water. In Amman, white limestone stacks into terraces and stairs. In the…", "content_text": "Jordan · 30.33° N, 35.44° E\n\nJordan switches fast between empty stone desert and green strips along the water. In Amman, white limestone stacks into terraces and stairs. In the south, Wadi Rum opens into wide sandstone walls and silence. Petra changes colour with the sun, and the Dead Sea lies lower than anything around it.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/jordan/onp03766-2400.webp", "date_published": "2024-03-21T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/london.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/london.html", "title": "London", "summary": "United Kingdom: London is built in layers: Roman foundations, Victorian infrastructure and a present that moves faster than the Tube at rush hour. History, finance,…", "content_text": "United Kingdom · 51.51° N, 0.13° W\n\nLondon is built in layers: Roman foundations, Victorian infrastructure and a present that moves faster than the Tube at rush hour. History, finance, culture and ordinary daily life, all within a few streets.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/london/onp02530-hdr-2400.webp", "date_published": "2024-01-13T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/dolomites.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/dolomites.html", "title": "Dolomites", "summary": "Italy: The Dolomites look like a stage set and are completely real. Morning light pulls out layers of limestone that look grey by day and turn pink at dusk.…", "content_text": "Italy · 46.41° N, 11.84° E\n\nThe Dolomites look like a stage set and are completely real. Morning light pulls out layers of limestone that look grey by day and turn pink at dusk. Sharp towers, wide passes, soft meadows, and the rock starts right above them.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/dolomites/dji-0928-hdr-2-2400.webp", "date_published": "2023-08-06T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/italy.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/italy.html", "title": "Italy", "summary": "Valle d'Aosta, Italy: Morgex, Valle d'Aosta. The trail climbs from the village up the slope to a small hut. Scree and short grass underfoot, open hillside, cows by the…", "content_text": "Valle d'Aosta, Italy · 45.76° N, 7.04° E\n\nMorgex, Valle d'Aosta. The trail climbs from the village up the slope to a small hut. Scree and short grass underfoot, open hillside, cows by the road, bells mixing with the wind.\nOn the ridge it opens into a wide panorama, with Mont Blanc in the distance against darker ridges and old snow in the shadows. The hut sits on the edge. Simple, nothing hidden.\nWithin minutes the light shifts and the warm tones turn cold blue.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/italy/onp07132-hdr-2400.webp", "date_published": "2023-08-02T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/breithorn.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/breithorn.html", "title": "Breithorn", "summary": "Italy / Switzerland: Breithorn from the Italian side starts high and changes landscape fast. Rock and grass stay below; above is only snow, ice and a wide col under the…", "content_text": "Italy / Switzerland · 45.94° N, 7.75° E\n\nBreithorn from the Italian side starts high and changes landscape fast. Rock and grass stay below; above is only snow, ice and a wide col under the massif.\nWe spent the night at the refuge for an early start: weather check, layers, alarm in the dark. In the morning, a frozen track across the glacier and the crunch of crampons. Breathe, step, pause, step.\nThe climb isn't technical. It's about focus and pace. The summit ridge is wide but exposed, and you feel exactly where the safe snow ends. Then the usual Alpine moment: a quick photo, a few seconds of silence, and back down the same way.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/breithorn/dji-0635-hdr-2-1509.webp", "date_published": "2023-07-30T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/venice.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/venice.html", "title": "Venice", "summary": "Italy: Venice sits on its lagoon, made of water and stone: canals instead of streets, bridges instead of directions. Peeling plaster, salt-eaten corners,…", "content_text": "Italy · 45.44° N, 12.32° E\n\nVenice sits on its lagoon, made of water and stone: canals instead of streets, bridges instead of directions. Peeling plaster, salt-eaten corners, laundry over narrow courtyards. Between palaces and churches the city still works: boats with crates, rubbish collected by barge.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/venice/onp06126-2400.webp", "date_published": "2023-07-29T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/berchtesgaden.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/berchtesgaden.html", "title": "Berchtesgaden", "summary": "Germany: Berchtesgaden sits in the south-east corner of Bavaria, on the Austrian border: steep Alpine massifs, the Königssee and a national park. Glaciers,…", "content_text": "Germany · 47.63° N, 13.00° E\n\nBerchtesgaden sits in the south-east corner of Bavaria, on the Austrian border: steep Alpine massifs, the Königssee and a national park. Glaciers, dense forest and the rock walls around the Watzmann shape the land. This short film shows the terrain, the weather and the feel of the place as it is, in real time.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/berchtesgaden/dji-0119-hdr-2-2400.webp", "date_published": "2023-07-05T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/morocco.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/morocco.html", "title": "Morocco", "summary": "Morocco sits between the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Sahara, and you feel all three: salty air on the coast, dry dust inland. The medinas are…", "content_text": "Morocco · 31.79° N, 7.09° W\n\nMorocco sits between the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Sahara, and you feel all three: salty air on the coast, dry dust inland. The medinas are a maze of narrow passages, mosques and souks smelling of metal, leather and mint. In the Atlas the colour of the rock changes every kilometre; at the edge of the desert the land empties into silence.\nIn the medina you navigate by smell, voices and light.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/morocco/img-4851-2400.webp", "date_published": "2023-02-02T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/madeira-island.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/madeira-island.html", "title": "Madeira", "summary": "Portugal: Madeira is a volcanic island in the Atlantic where mountains rise straight out of the sea and the weather flips from one ridge to the next. Above…", "content_text": "Portugal · 32.76° N, 16.96° W\n\nMadeira is a volcanic island in the Atlantic where mountains rise straight out of the sea and the weather flips from one ridge to the next. Above Funchal, terraces of bananas and vines. Inland, levadas, the old irrigation channels, run along the slopes past waterfalls, moss and ferns. The coast is black and sharp: cliffs, rocks, waves, hardly any beaches.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/madeira-island/img-3843-2400.webp", "date_published": "2023-01-19T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "https://adamtovarek.com/nazare.html", "url": "https://adamtovarek.com/nazare.html", "title": "Nazaré", "summary": "Portugal: Nazaré, Portugal, is known for giant waves created by an underwater canyon just offshore. This short documentary captures the town and the force of…", "content_text": "Portugal · 39.60° N, 9.07° W\n\nNazaré, Portugal, is known for giant waves created by an underwater canyon just offshore. This short documentary captures the town and the force of the Atlantic. It's personal: it was the first time I ever held a camera.", "image": "https://adamtovarek.com/img/nazare/img-1594-2400.webp", "date_published": "2023-01-17T12:00:00Z" } ] }