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Early flowering friends part II
Sunday, 15 May 2016
As promised there‘s a second series of images of early flowering spring flowers. All these pictures have also been taken in Upper or Lower Austria during February and March this year.
The cranes during great evening conditions. One of these images which actually don’t work too well in 800px ;)
Dark clouds on a rainy day.
Actually one can discover wildflowers in bloom all over the year like this bellflower ... (© Wolfgang Hackl)
Hidden in the woods at dawn.
Always a great experience to spend a summer night under the stars on top of a mountain ...
A Southern Lapwing in soft morning light. I was really fascinated by their colorful and shimmering plumage.
… to arrive at this lovely place right before sunrise. (© Sabine Fenzl)
Canon EOS 7DII, Sigma 120-300mm F2,8 DG OS HSM Sports, Sigma TC 1401, handheld
f4.5, ISO1250, +3EV, 1/1000sec., 309mm
Because of the high mountains the sun comes up pretty late in these areas, so when the light finally hits you it’s already very harsh. So I went for some high contrast back lit images.
The pleasure of the warming sun after a frosty night.
And they became more and more.
A tufted duck has a relaxed morning in the wetlands of Upper Austria.
So, now you know what it’s all about in Austria ;)
Fortunately their migration speed quite leisurely, so it wasn’t to exhausting and challenging to follow them over the days with all my stuff. Besides they know how to take a rest ;) Nevertheless they often use paths which are completely impassable for humans (like me). Sometimes I was just left standing and could only look after them hoping to catch them up again later or on the next day.
For a brief moment the fog scattered a bit and I could get a rather clear view at this bull.
A simple but quite beautiful scenery.
Our first stay in Patagonia. After our arrival in Punta Arenas we spent one night in this room. This was our last bed for two months and we put it to good use to check and repack our gear (from flight-suitable to trekking-suitable) ;) We knew we'll have to carry this 50kg of stuff all the time from now on. So in our case that was everything we needed (or wanted) to exist when we were out there. The backpacks were quite heavy but actually we felt freedom not weight.
Spring disco part II
Friday, 12 May 2017
Today I would like to continue with the next handful images of the first spring flowers. In the meantime actually all of them are already faded, but new flowers like orchids are on the way and can be found now. And in areas closer to the mountains, where there's still early spring, flowers like the Common Hepaticas or Oxlips are still in full bloom.
... before it left towards the rising sun. Same bird at almost the same time but in a completely different position regarding the light resulted in a totally different image.
Actually I was out trying to capture the milky way at night at Lake Almsee, but unfortunately as soon as I arrived the clouds also appeared. So I got some sleep and went out again later in the morning. As I was finally shooting this lovely landscape scenery, I suddenly heard these geese in the distance. As quickly as I could I changed the ISO from 100 to 4000 and the aperture from 16 to 10 to get an acceptable shutter speed of 1/200sec. During this second the birds already appeared behind the trees and since I was shooting the landscape with a 2 sec. selftimer I just tried to release the shutter in the right moment.
One of nature’s extraordinary sculptures in front of the Cuernos del Paine.
Canon EOS 7DII, Sigma 120-300mm F2,8 DG OS HSM Sports, Sigma TC 1401, handheld
f10, ISO200, +2.33EV, 1/200sec., 271mm
One day I took a rest under this tree. But actually I didn’t notice this owl until I finally moved on.
A portrait shot right after sundown.
Hopefully I could manage to show a bit of the beauty and grace of these fragile creatures and you could enjoy browsing through the pictures. Take care and see you soon.
As they finally left the area and disappeared at the horizon I took this picture.
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