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One of those lovely swan couples.
When light and colors fade at dusk.
Exciting light conditions created by fog and sun. (© Wolfgang Hackl)
Right at the breaking of dawn this gorgeous little singer raises its inspiring voice.
A lovely South American Grey Fox strolling around between the bushes looking for breakfast.
Of course we didn't experience sunshine every morning. Blue hour on a cloudy day.
Actually I don't know why, but petrels are extremely fascinating to me. Maybe because of their long and slim wings and their ability to maneuver extremely skillfull in heavy winds.
Detail of a Monkey Puzzle Tree. These trees are counted among the living fossils. They already live on this planet for 100 million years and are among the oldest living tree species on earth. And by the way they are really beautiful.
Early flowering friends part I
Friday, 6 May 2016
Yes, I know it‘s been quite a while since my last set of images. But no worries, there‘s a bunch in the pipeline ;) A lot happened during the last month, something has changed and of course I was out enjoying and capturing spring with my camera pretty often. So today I would like to restart with the first little series of early flowering plants from Upper and Lower Austria.
I was very pleased to encounter beared tits for my fisrt time last year.
Two ravens taking a rest as the evening sun breaks through just a little bit.
… and fairytale-like landscapes all over the place.
Although this is one of my favorite images, I have to admit it actually doesn’t work well in the 800px web version. But I’m sure you will manage to find this two battling guys ;)
First snow of the year, first light of the day.
In our opinion, penguins are certainly among the cutest birds on earth ...
This particular morning I found quite a few snails climbing up different stalks, but I don't know what causes this behaviour. So, if you do, let me know.
That's it with my 2016 Austrian pictures. But there are a few more series of Patagonia to come. ... I'm already curious what animals will unexpectedly cross my ways this year :) Let's see. Have a great day everyone!
... and always a great experience to witness the fast changing light conditions in the next morning.
Yerba mate. What else? (© Sabine Fenzl)
One more photograph from the same location. A Blue Heron having a rest on the “kingfisher branch”.
An additional series of random Austrian bird captures will be online her soon. As always, I hope you liked what you saw and you will drop by in my little blog sooner or later. Cheers, have a good one!
One of the first photographs of our trip. Not a bad scenery for a starter, I guess ;)
Most of the lava rock ground is rather barren but one can also discover amazing flowers like this big orchid.
The rocky mountain landscapes often seem pretty rough but due to the fact, that there are no thunderstorms at this time of the year, we deeply enjoyed wandering around also during dark weather conditions.
To be honest, I didn’t notice these beautiful orchids until this year. But this summer it seemed to me, they can be found in numerous different areas. I will probably pay more attention on them in the future.
Hopefully you all could spend and enjoy a few great summer days at the lakeside, in the mountains or anywhere else out there as I did. By now I’m really looking forward to my upcoming travel experiences :) Have a good time everyone, see you soon!
We discovered the first couple of fire flies along the creek, before we noticed, that there are much more in the woods.
The subadults always had an eye on me.
Although I focused my photography on the ibexes, I had the pleasure to have lots of other delightful sightings. At this time of the year, when spring slowly takes over the command, you can find numerous bloomy alpine flowers like the famous gentian, pasque flowers and much more. And already on my first morning up there I was extremely lucky to spot a bearded volture as it was suddenly flying above a glacier lake and finally sat down on a rock where I had the chance to observe it for about half an hour until I was “disturbed” by two battling bucks ;) Furthermore I could observe chamois and of course countless marmots, which can be found almost everywhere on the alpine meadows. All of this takes place surrounded by a stunning landscape. A great place indeed.
The moment you realise you ordered way too much strawberry and blueberry ice cream ;)
Last but not least I would like to point out to my October workshop at Lake Almsee again. If you haven't done already, visit
Workshops for all the info or just get in touch with me directly for any furhter questions or booking. Thanks!
Since I'm always looking for new lovely places, I'm very happy I found this beautiful location, with a great view to the mountain range of the Totes Gebirge, a few days back. And I really love the mood here.
I guess I will do stitched panorams more often in the future. Beside the fact, that they allow me to capture a bigger scene, they also have the benefit of a much higher resolution, which can be very useful in terms of large prints, of course.
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