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Eric Fichtl
<p>Trees peek through the mist in Val di Funes – a great welcome for a day of hiking!<br /></p>

Thanks for visiting. This website features my photography, writing, and a bit about me.

PHOTOS

Here is a random sample of my photos. Visit my galleries for many more.


<p>A man lost in his thoughts on a tram in central Sofia.</p>
<p>A formica (or similar synthetic) table run through with forms from nature. </p>
<p>An interior shot of St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square, peering up one of the octagonal spires capped by the church's famous onion domes. <br /></p><p>Dating from the mid 16th Century, the structure is a unique oddity – an asymmetric labyrinth of chapels and corridors on the interior, with ten cylindrical domed towers each bearing their own signature style on the exterior – that has long been a symbol of Russia. </p>
<p>An Apennine (or Abruzzan) chamois surveys the surroundings. Their dwindling numbers have been boosted by the safe haven of the Gran Sasso national park.<br /></p>
<p>Space-restricted Hong Kong has been building high-density high-rise housing for decades. More and more districts are taking on this character.<br /></p>
<p>A view over Setenil de las Bodegas, one of Andalusia's white hill towns. <br /></p>
<p>Jorge Bernal was mayor of the rural town of Tame in 2003, when my colleague Garry Leech and I interviewed him about the war engulfing his region. Here he shrugs off a fax from the FARC guerrillas denouncing him as a 'narcoparamilitary'.<br /></p>
<p>An arch of stars stretches across the heavens in a dark sky area in Germany.<br /></p>
TEXTS

A lot of what I write professionally carries no byline. Here are some of the works I have put my name to.

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Uribe Administration Impeding Foreign Press

The new president moves to limit any potentially damaging reports appearing in the foreign press.
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Not this time, FIFA

On boycotting the 2022 World Cup.
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The Ambiguous Nature of “Collaboration” in Colombia

Most Colombians have done something that might result in them being labeled a collaborator or sympathizer by one of Colombia’s armed groups.