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The dancing shadow of a wood anemone towards the reflection of the midday sun on a tiny creek.

Birch trees in autumn. Always worth a closer look. Just love them.

Canon EOS 5DII, EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM, tripod, polarizer, bubble level
HDR of three exposures at f22, ISO100, 16mm: 0.3sec., 0.5sec. & 4sec.

Sometimes even harsh light works.

… and we watched the seagulls and clouds until darkness.

Since we had to register every time we entered this strictly protected area and the road is closed at night, I had to deal with rather harsh light conditions.

... but they can be very rude and aggressive too.

Lower Austria's little Erlauf River canyon in early autumn.

What a great location for a breakfast after some hours of hiking. Gorgeous sunrise at an amazing black-and-white lake shore.

After a short but wonderful hike through an other amazing forest, we finally came across this lovely creek.

The wonderful soft blue light of early dawn.

Mixed landscapes part II – Norway part VI

Thursday, 3 March 2016

Yesterday I served you my last images of Upper Austria's autumn, today I would like to show you my last selection of Norwegian landscape pictures. During our trip throught the more southern part of Norway we were really blessed with exciting weather conditions. So we were out all day to experience this wonderful country in great lights.

The Jostedalsbreen glacier is Europe’s biggest inland glacier and protected as a national park. The ice is up to 600m thick and the glacier has a total area of 487km². You can see Nigardsbreen glacier in this image again. This time at sunset.

Birds of pannonia

Thursday, 21 January 2016

Like every year, also in 2015 I spent a couple of days in the areas of Austria's Neusiedlersee-Seewinkel National Park close to the borders of Hungary. Actually I was there already in April, but I never found the time to work in these images. The national parks is know for its diverse birdlife and of course spring is the best and most interesting time to go there. I never have particular projects in my mind when I'm in this region, I just enjoy all the feathered life and see what will happen. No hiding, just wandering around with my camera.

View from Mount Tamischbachturm at the Gesäuse National Park as the very first light hit me.

At dusk a little later. Soft and delightful. I love cotton grass.
Not enough of the great surrounding the skies were almost completely clear in the evening, so that we stayed up pretty long to look out one more time for some northern lights. But because of our relatively southern position we didn’t expect too much. But finally we got so much more than we could hope for. This night was definitely one of the most memorable moments we experienced in last few years. Of course, for professional aurora hunters the light show wouldn’t have been very spectacular, but for guys like us, who never witnessed this phenomenon before, it was madness :)

Because of all the rain there was a lot of water and the current was actually much stronger than I thought.

Another shot taken in the Traun-Danube floodplains. A beaver also creating nice patters on the water surface in twilight.

... and like this documentary showing a Pangolin among Magellanic Penguins. Actually I don't really know, but I guess there are just a very few places on earth were one can find a setting like this. And, as far as I know, this region is still very unpopular, but as I already mentioned in a former posting, much more charismatic than the nearby peninsula of Valdés.

Little creatures addicted to the sun.

I don't know the exact name of this hawk, but I'm grateful he placed himself in best evening light.
That's it, hope you liked my interpretations of some of the Patagonian birds. Again I kindly invite you all to browse through my updated and refreshed online galleries where now also all the pictures of 2016 can be found and some very new photographs from this spring will arrive pretty soon.

Since we left to South America at the beginning of November, this was actually the only proper autumn shot I could get last year.

The most intense blue appears on the new created surface right after a piece of the glacier has collapsed. You can hear the ice cracking actually all the time.

After we set up our tent for the first night in the park, we explored these riverbanks and found lots of lovely wildflowers and details between the stones.

The Southern Lapwing is quite a bit bigger and also much more colorful than the Eurasian one. But also their screams are very noticeable and loud. Even all night long ;)

One of my very rare and not very photogenic encounters with a musk ox. My little musk ox project really didn’t work out.
The way hunting is seen, appreciated and glorified in our society is one of the most saddening things of our time and, in my opinion, really problematic.

Main floor part II – Norway part IV

Wednesday, 16 December 2015

As I promised here’s the second part of my impressions of our first Rondane National Park visit this year. It was so delightful to stroll around in these stunning landscapes enjoying our time and taking pictures every now and then. Of course there’s so much more to explore and I hope we’ll go back there someday.

River picnic

Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Summer is actually the only season when the small gravel road along the Straneggbach, located in Upper Austria, which leads to the foot of some nice mountains of the Tote Gebirge, isn’t closed due to the hunting or the winter season. So I decided to take the chance and this road in June to spend a relaxed evening in this area I haven’t been since 2013. Although there is only one direction where you can get the mountains and the creek in the frame, the scenery looks different every time, because of the always changing channel the water takes in the riverbed.

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