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As we left the forest we noticed that we’ve actually been hiking through this amazing halo, you can see in these pictures, all the time. You can also see an 100% crop (actually only on high resolution displays, on the desktop monitor it's a 50% crop) of the first image “Magic cutrain”.

Always busy and looking for food.

I’m totally thrilled by the appearance of birch trees in fall.

Along the way - Norway part II

Tuesday, 10 November 2015

During our Norway trip this late summer we had a couple of areas we wanted to visit definitely and where we would spend more time, like Rondane National Park, for example. But on the ways to these popular spots we also had enough time to go and stay wherever we preferred to. And since Norway is a country full of amazing wild and unpeopled landscapes we came across numerous fascinating placed where we spontaneously decided to stay for one or more nights. So, today I would like to show some images I took in the highlands during two of theses stays.

Come to life

Monday, 29 June 2015

Since May is by far the greenest month here in Austria, this May was again a very rainy one and the rain can really make the spring colors pop, it was time for me to do some creek photography. I decided to spend one of those rainy days about five weeks ago at the gorgeous Ysper gorge. Actually I do not know this place very well, I was there only once before for a relaxed walk with my girl a few years back. But I knew that beside all the fresh green lushness of the woods the color of the water there is quite lovely. It probably gets its orange color of its iron content.

I’m glad this ibex finally decided to pose in front of Mount Großglockner as it was hit by the morning sun.

Mountain faces

Wednesday, 20 September 2017

After the rather photographic unproductive midsummer, in late summer and (early) autumn the photo opportunities start to improve again. This means, that the unpublished images on my hard drives become more and more but the time to post them here becomes less and less. To keep this blog alive I decided to display some quickly picked beside-pictures I shot while I was actually out for wildlife in the mountains. All of these photographs show some closeup snapshots of mountain ridges in gorgeous conditions. And all of them were taken with my telephoto lens which can also be used very well for landscape photography to exclude a particular mood from the rest of the bigger scenery.

A scenery one would probably connect with North America. It shows the canyon of the Río Pinturas which walls and caves display the inspiring cave paintings of the Cueva de las Manos. But due to vandalism, today there're tall fences of steel in front of all the paintings and now they can only be explored in guided and paid tours.

Later that morning I met a couple and they asked me wether there are beavers at the lake ... "I think so." Although this is critical for the beech tree, of course, the patterns the animal created on the trunk actually looks quite nice. As soon as the morning fog slowly revealed the mountain in the background, I took this photograph.

We were really surprised by the extremely calm conditions during our first sunrise up there. Perfect conditions for perfect reflections.

I will never get tired of settings like this.

The excitement of a stork couple reunion in early spring.

Dead and alive plants on the surface of these lava rocks.

Colorful wildflowers at a rather rainy day.
My next series will show the second part of the alpine ibex images, which I also took at the High Tauern National Park, but on the Carinthian side of these moutains. Thanks, see you soon.

They have freedom, but they don’t have peace. Like actually almost all wild mammals in Europe.
Actually I unsuccessfully tried to photograph the famous musk ox of Norway's Dovrefjell National Park for about one week. Everyone told me that I will find them just everywhere and easily. But I will probably have no chance to spot some reindeer, because they're extremely shy, with a flight initiation distance of about 400-600m, and the hunting season has already started that time. And unfortunately Sabine and me we found ourselves between all these guns and the animals for a couple of times. And finally witnessed one of these magnificent animals die in endless agony by the hands of hunters. Some of these so very well experienced and skilled hunters. In an open field it took them only about 20 minutes and three shots to hunt down this wonderful bull. Finally one of them killed it as if he had all the time in the world by placing his gun right on the skull of the completely panic reindeer, unable to flee but in sight distance to his also panic herd. Just one more successful ending of this noble and relaxing passion. How come that so many people enjoy this?

Long before the sun came up this great egret passed me.

The sun sets over the large and calm Lake Neusiedl ...

Home of the trolls - Norway part I

Friday, 16 October 2015

Hello again! Yes, I’m still alive and I’m still taking pictures ;) …no entry here for ages, so it seems it’s time for the short, cold and grey winter days. Maybe then I will find some more time to work behind my monitor. I had a great time during the last three month travelling around Norway for one month and our first time, visiting Sweden for a couple of days, going to Spain to have a really pleasant time at the MontPhoto Fest, meeting some great people and great photographers like Jonathan Lhoir, David Maitland, Máté Bence there, taking a couple of different hikes with friends in the mountains of Austria, sleeping under the stars, shooting at the Traun-Danube floodplains, unsuccessfully trying to capture the red deer rut at the Danube Wetlands National Park and much more.

Although we returned from Scandinavia about a month ago I still couldn’t find the time to have a look at most of my images I took there. The pictures you can find in this blog entry show some landscapes of Norway’s Reinheimen National Park and the area along Valldøla river.

Gentle light. Gentle buck.

Gentle audience part II

Wednesday, 9 August 2017

The second set of my 2017 Lady's Slipper Orchid images from Lower Austria is still missing, so here we go. No big story, just a couple of images of these fascinating flowers which you'll hopefully enjoy as much as I do.

Detail of another spectacular sunset right after ...

... and we were deeply fascinated by their outstanding beauty.

A mother with her calf in front of the faraway Andes.

Lanín at dawn as seen from my favorite view along this creek. You can find a Monkey Puzzle Tree on the right side of the image.

Short before sunset, the sallow waters sometimes look like liquid metal.

Handheld snapshot of that optical phenomen.

Free glitter for everyone.
Beside the showcase thing I also would like to invite you to take a look at my newly created instagram channel and to subscribe to it if you like what you see. … bye for now, see you soon hopefully.

Canon EOS 5DII, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM, handheld
f9, ISO250, -2EV, 1/8000sec., 105mm

Rain in Tresticklan

Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Ok, I have to admit, this is not about Norwegian landscapes as announced in my last posting, but it’s still about Scandinavian scapes ;) On our way from Austria up to Norway we had to pass through Sweden of course. Although we didn’t spend much time there we decided to stay for two nights at the Tresticklan National Park.

One of the countless greenish-blue but crystal clear streams which run through this mountain areas.
So, I’ll say goodbye for today, in the hope that I can manage to post another entry here soon, showing some more fresh images of the last months. Of course most of them will show scenes from Norway, but there will also be a couple of images I took in Austria. I would be pleased to welcome you here again.

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