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Sunday, 16 June 2019

First of all I would like to point out that I finally managed to update my showcase on this website after two long years. I added 43 pictures, so now you can find a mixed collection of 100 of my images. It also contains a few brandnew teasers from New Zealand. ... and please don't forget, that most of my photographs can also be purchased as prints.

But now let's come to the images you can see in this blog post. Actually I was always fascinated by the tiny water deformations Water Striders create with their legs, because these deformations can cause really stunning reflections but I never payed enough attention to them. One day, when I was actually waiting for some water birds, but the birds didn't show up, I started playing around with the Water Striders in my favorite location of the Traun-Danube Wetlands in Upper Austria. In the end I only spent about three days photographing this little insects, but I got a few shots, I would like to show. I was especially thrilled by the situations when the legs of the animals created this amazing sunstars. As all my images also the ones below were taken without the use of any artificial light, flash or special technique. For me it's important to work with the natural light, because in my opinion it's also part of the natural scenery I would like to capture in an authentic way. So the pictures are just simple handheld shots showing the natural beauty and magic. But it was actually quite challenging to get a few rather sharp shots because these little insects are always in motion and my autofocus didn't catch them, so that I had to focus on them manually.

Altitude encounters part II

Tuesday, 11 June 2019

With immense delay I would like to display the second series of my 2018 Alpine Ibex images here today. All of the pictures have been made in the Carinthian part of Austria's biggest national park, the High Tauern National Park, which stretches over the states of Salzburg, Carinthia and Tyrol. In the mean time most of the snow up in their habitat should have been already disappeared, so it's time to go up there again soon. Can't wait :) ... nothing more to say, just a handful images to share. Hope you like them. Cheers.

Recap 2018

Tuesday, 4 June 2019

Holy Toledo, time passes fast! Can't believe it's been already six months since my latest posting here in the news blog. So, I would like to apologize for my long absence here. For all of you who've been afraid, that I quitted photography, no worries, I didn't. Definitely not :) Nevertheless I just couldn't find the time to update my website. But since I finally finished processing my images from the past year, I'll try to work hard in my homepage to show you lots of "new" pictures in this blog during the next few weeks and to update all my galleries and the showcase which still only show images from 2017 and earlier.

Although it's actually a bit embarrassing to show a few of my 2018 favorites at the beginning of June, I dare to do so, because I guess this is a good way to revitalize this blog. Of course, I know that the second part of my 2018 Alpine Ibex images is still missing. I will display these pictures in my next entry.

2018 was an absolutely exciting year with quite a lot of new experiences and changes. Most important, of course, the universal beauty of untouched nature showed up in a completely new and irresistible appearance as our gorgeous son Tim was born in August and stole our hearts immediately. Besides that, I finally make my whole living by photographing nature since March 2018, which is definitely a dream coming true. I never thought, this could work out, but, at least until today, it does. And I hope it also will in the future. Furthermore also when it comes to nature photography competitions, it was an amazing year, with nine international awards in major events. And, needless to say, a lot more was going on in the past year and also in 2019 we already had a blast. First of all during a ten weeks camping trip in New Zealand (more on that to come).

The nine images you can see below are just a few of my 2018 favorites. As most times I couldn't hardly decide which ones to show. There are quite a few more, I'm happy with. You'll see these photographs again in some of my upcoming posts here with some background information. But in this recap, I would like to give you some technical information, like I also did it in my former recaps. Hope you enjoy.

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