My oldest hobbies are dogs (as a child Collie Tramp) and photography. At primary school, I started with an Agfa Isola (photo Dirk Böhling), a simple camera for roll film sizes 6x6, which at that time was about 40 DM.
The term "surroundings" here has many different meanings. We often walk with our dogs and I use to take my camera with me. This walks mostly are near by our home, that means the area around Wildenrath, Arsbeck, Dalheim, Wassenberg and event the frontier to the netherlands.
However wealso walk in the region of Aix la Chapelle (Aachen), in the near Eifel or anywhere else around Heinsberg. That all is included in the word "surroundings".
If there are special events near by as the horticultural show "Floriade" in Venlo in the year 2012, that's also "surroundings".