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The evening sun breaks through the clouds above this massive stream of ice with its cliff dropping 70 meters into the lake at the end.

A good example for an unexpected bird photography opportunity. I took this picture while I was out in Styria photographing chess flowers.

And also other amazing and rare wildflowers like Gentian can be found in this habitats.

Spring patterns of beauty part II

Wednesday, 29 June 2016

Meanwhile my trip to the fascinating chess flowers is already back about two month. So I guess it’s time for the second out of three sets of images. This year I was lucky to come back with a good bunch of pictures I like, so that’s why I would like to show some more photographs of these extremely rare spring flowers.

This particular rainbow accompanied us for about 20 minutes. Actually there were two of them. I’ll show a panorama image of this scene in the second part.

Floral summer snaps

Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Although I did a few very delightful and exciting hikes during the last couple of weeks, I actually spent very little time behind my camera or working on specific photographic projects and even less time behind my computer. Nevertheless I would like to serve you a few documentary style images of a handful gorgeous flower I ran into this summer as yet.

Lit up.

A good example for the fact, that cloudy skies can actually provide the most fascinating alpenglows.

One of those extremely rare moments of a sighting in the later morning as the sun already lightens up the scenery. So I experienced some truly intense moments during this fascinating close encounter with this charismatic and healthy looking wetland bull. A fabulouse creature with an appearance straight out of a fairytale.

A rather uncommon backdrop for a Mallard in flight, I guess.

... the lovely Common Hepaticas ...

Birds of Patagonia part I - Patagonia part X

Monday, 10 April 2017

Although the Nandus, the Magellanic Woodpeckers and the (Magellanic) Penguins (I will dedicate them a separte set of images here) are probably the best known and also most noticeable birds one will find in Patagonia, there are countless other bird species at this end of the world which are also quite intersting and beautiful. I prepared two series of bird photographs I took in Patagonia and here's the first one. Hope you'll like them.

A little fight in front of a spectacular backdrop.

Spring feeling along the shore of Lago Grey as a huge lonely iceberg floats around.
In the meantime I could actually manage to process all my 2016 images and clean up my hard drive. So be prepared for some more to come during the next weeks. There are 16 more entries of the past year in the pipeline. Ten of them will be about Patagonia :) Bye for now, take care.

A closer but distant look at the towers showing the everlasting battle between the clouds and the granite rocks.

First light of the new day breaks into the forest.

Superb conditions already on my first morning.

Sunset before the night in which we witnessed some very delightful and unforgettable northern lights.

From time to time you can also find these little birds higher up in the trees around the waters.

Even at the beginning of June there are lots of deep snow fields they have to cross sometimes.
Usually I got up at 04:00 a.m. and started searching for the ibexes close to the area I saw them the last day when it got dark. And it never took me longer than an hour to get in touch with them again. From then on I moved around with the herd until about 10:00 a.m., made a break and started again around for hours later and stayed on their side until darkness. So I actually spent approximately 13 hours every day with these mammals and I think as a result of that I also could come very close from time to time.

Austria's highest peak hidden behind a layer of colorful clouds as the sun delivers its last light.

All the little flowers try to suck in as much sunlight as possible, like these lovely Pileworts.
Of course the time of these early flowering spring creatures is definitely over now, but they will be back next season for sure. So let's look forward to them and the good vibes they deliver when they start to pop up after the rather grey winter and bring back some dots of colors into the woods.

Monkey Puzzle Trees in a lovely setting at the Argenitnian-Chilean border.
Since we started our journey in Punta Arenas and ended it in San Diago de Chile, the northern parts of Patagonia and the lake district completed our adventure. But no worries, this image series doesn't complete my Patagonian photographs ;) Hope you'res still curious what's left in the pipeline ...

A wonderful lupine meadow at sunset somewhere along the way.

Often the flowers are hidden in the already high grass of June.

I just love how this one turned out. Taken in almost completely darkness at ISO16.000, f2.8, 1/60 (-3EV) with +0.6EV in post processing and no noise reduction.

As you can see, this is one of these images which do not work in web resolution. So I decide to enclose a 50% and a 100% crop (on retina displays you should only see the 100% crop) of the animals here. I cannot wait to see this one as a large print on my wall. I guess I just managed to fully catch the experience I had at this moment and that’s why this image is so important to me.
Similar to my chess flower images, I will do three sets of images of my last two alpine ibex shootings. I hope you liked this first part and you will come back here for the next one. Have a great Sunday everyone, thanks for your attention :)

Asferico 2016

Monday, 18 April 2016

Finally all the awarded images of Asferico 2016, one of the most important international naturephotography cempetitions with 17.000 submissions from all over the globe, are revealed and I'm super excited my picture "(Forest) Fingers" is listed in this collection of absolutely stunning photographs.

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