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Tiny spider slack lining between the spring flowers along a small forest stream.

Towers of the blue skies II – Patagonia part VI

Wednesday, 15 March 2017

It‘s time for the second half of my random Torres del Paine National Park landscape shots. Except the last image of this entry, all the pictures you can see in this post were made spontaneously without any prior scouting of the areas. Actually something uncommon when it comes to landscape photography. Also for me. But of course we tried to avoid hiking in the midday hours on sunny days and we mainly went out trekking during the much more exciting early morning and late evening hours.

I only went to the new location in Upper Austria once, so it was more kind of a spot check than a photographic trip. This close up is one of the few images I took there.

Ghostlike this one returned into the woods again.

The day breaks after a clear cold night.

At the beginning of September some of the bushes already showed their autumn colors.

Around almost every corner you’ll find a lovely litte stream or waterfall.

… and I always enjoy shooting through subjects in the foreground.

The big full moon finally makes place for the rising sun.

The sun was gone in the morning, when I discovered this sweet field of yellow summer flowers hidden in the woods …

Vivid colors.

These two guys did me a huge favor as they started to battle at the edge of this rock right in front of a glacier lake.
All in all I spent four days with one herd of about 25 individuals. As I arrived up there at an altitude of about 2.500 meters above sea level, it took my only a few hours to find them. I tried to spend as much time as possible with this herd, always taking care of their behaviour to make sure I do not disturb them. And since I’m not the biggest fan of close up portrait shots, it wasn’t necessary to be that close to the animals.

The Erlauf River makes its way through one of the most beautiful parts of the canyon on a foggy late autumn day.

A sudden and very close encounter at dusk.
The second location I visited this autumn is quite different to the wetlands. It's located in the mountains of the Carinthian part of the High Tauern National Park. Beside the Red Deer this place also offers some quite nice landscapes but unfortunately there was heavy thick fog almost all the time when I was there. Although I actually really like fog when I'm out taking pictures, the extremely poor visibility made it almost impossible to spot the animals before they already noticed me. So I could only manage to take a handful of images up there this year.

Due to the stunning landscapes smaller things like wildflowers are mostly overlooked.

... followed by the well known Snowdrops, ...

Vivid Austrian leftovers

Wednesday, 26 April 2017

This will be the last series of 2016 images made in Austria I'll post here. The next set will already display some lovely early flowering wildflower shots. ... but back to this post. You can see some more mixed captures of wild non-bird animals which all came my ways by accident when I was just wandering around or when I was actually looking for something else.

A sneak preview of the Magellanic Penguins. They are just too lovely ;)
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The fairytale-like valley in Lower Austria. If you look closely, you can see that there are also other orchids around in the area.

Family vacation

Saturday, 6 August 2016

A few weeks back I spent a wonderful holiday week with my girlfriend, my brother, his wife & their lovely little daughter and my mother in the mountains of the High Tauern National Park in Salzburg. Since this was a three-generations vacation and not a photo trip, we did a lot of beautiful and moderate day-hikes and I only took my camera with my wide angle lens and my polarizer along on two days. Although all of the images are just hand held landscape snapshots, I enjoy some oft them, because they display a little bit of the gorgeous landscapes we were wandering through. And actually they also show, that you can also get some appealing shots midday and it’s not always necessary to get up at 02:00 a.m. ;)

A kestrel scanning the ground for food.

In some areas of the park you can find countless small but very appealing waterholes …

A little closer

Saturday, 17 October 2015

There’s a particular area in the Traun-Danube Floodplains in Upper Austria I visit quite often. It’s easy to access, offers a really nice view to a wetlands-stream, it’s close to my hometown and because of that I already know the place pretty well. Usually when I go there I locate myself at the end of a straight part of the stream, so that I can overlook the whole scene, get some nice light conditions in the morning and when I’m lucky, now and than an animal appears in the scene. And since I really like the whole surrounding there and I also prefer pictures of animals also showing their habitats, I rarely have the intention to get closer to the animals here. In the stream, there’s a specific dead branch, on which kingfishers rest from time to time like on this image which also shows the view I prefer mostly. This summer at the beginning of August I realised that the branch was way more frequented by the birds, than usually. And although I’m not sure about photographing kingfishers, because they’re probably the most photographed birds in Europe on the one hand, but on the other hand they’re extremely gorgeous of course and I’m always delighted when I meet one, I decided to place myself closer to the branch for a couple of days, to take some little more detailed images of this cute creatures.

It’s always exciting to see how fast the weather and clouds can change in the mountains.

From this year on also the great Ysperklamm gorge can only be accessed through a baffle gate with a ticket scan and along the most beautiful part of the gorge even more new stairways were mounted all the way up.

Taken during my first Alpine Ibex trip in the High Tauern National Park this year. I guess this was one of the most challenging ibex photography tours I did so far. The weather conditions actually were way too sunny and the animals stayed in rather unphotogenic and hardly accessable high terrain because of the hot temperatures. But thanks to the cloudless weather I had the chance to enjoy the stunning night skies which accompany the animals through the darkness up there.

Although it's spring, the warm morning light creates a kind of autumn-like scenery.

Unfortunately I couldn't get a proper shot of a male Magellanic Woodpecker, but already the females actually look very funny.

Five million star hotel.

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