Photos, trips,
and quiet projects.
now: a small house, a busy garage
I'm Mario. I take photographs, ride bikes when the weather lets me, and spend most weekends in the garage shaping wood. I cook simple food, write a bit of code, and a few times a year I pack a camera bag for somewhere cold or somewhere sun-warmed.
A few waypoints.
The short version of how I got here.
First camera at around thirteen - a Nikon F50 with two lenses from my dad. Still have it.
A black Specialized Rockhopper Pro Comp. That one made trails feel like a new language.
Left school with a focus on information technology and the first real sense that computers could become more than a hobby.
Finished my bachelor's at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiener Neustadt.
Finished my master's at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiener Neustadt.
Joined the work around DEC112, bringing software and emergency communication closer together.
Started with a bookshelf, ended up building most of the furniture in the house. It's the part of the week I look forward to most.
A Focus Thron 6.9 opened up longer rides and steeper after-work loops.
Running a couple of small expeditions a year. The rest of the time I'm in the garage or in the kitchen.
113 photos in the game.
The rest of the week.
A few things I spend my time on when I'm not behind a camera.
I like long routes, small towns, and being a little bit lost. Lately a lot of time in Toscana and the Italian Alps.
Mostly enduro, sometimes bikepacking. Happiest on a quiet trail with a long descent and no one waiting at the bottom.
I build small tools for photographers and tinker with side projects in the evenings. Nothing fancy - just things I wanted to exist.
Good bread, a long ragu, whatever the market had that morning. Cooking for friends is half the point of having one.
Most weekends I'm in the garage with a hand plane and a record player. Mostly furniture for the house - a walnut table, oak shelves, a few stools that turned out better than expected. It's the quietest part of my week, and probably my favourite.
Roads, ferries, and small detours.
The five strongest road trips from the FindPenguins archive, from long Italian loops to the Croatian coast.
Five activities worth repeating.
The strongest visible Komoot activities from the public profile, led by bike kilometres and the best hiking days from Elba, Tuscany, and Verona.