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Liquid souls part II

Wednesday, 21 August 2019

Here we go with the second part of my long overdue spring flower reflection images. Unfortunately this year I couldn't take images of scenes like these. On the one hand due to our stay in New Zealand and on the other hand because of the fact, that there was a dog training place established right at the edge of this particular forest, where I could find these perfect combination of flowers, water and light. Although forests in Austria are free to enter for everyone and there is neither a sign nor a fence, these "very well trained police dogs" are running around in the woods free. I had a really horrible encounter with two of them back in 2018 and I'm still happy I survived unscathed while the dogs were "just doing what they're trained for" (I still dread to think what could have happened when I would have been there with our little son for example). Now I'm actually forced to stay away from this beloved area. This is a real pity, because this place was by far the best spot I know to capture moments like you can see below and it's also located so close to my home, which gave me the opportunity to go there every day in spring as soon as the conditions were interesting. But unfortunatley I really don't dare to go there again and lie myself down on the forest floor to take pictures ... But enough on that, that's another sad story. Enjoy the images!

Liquid souls part I

Sunday, 11 August 2019

In the next two entries you'll see a few images of Pileworts and Wood Anemones infront of a tiny forest stream. In this particular cases I was focusing on exciting reflections the sun created as an interesting background behind these little flowers. This kind of photography requires some rather harsh midday light and so it's a good opportunity to also go out during this kind of conditions, which are mainly unphotogenic, and put them to good use. And since the forest along this stream provides lots of darker areas it makes a good contrast to the bright sunlight. A few of the images just show classic light spots in the bokeh, but most of the pictures display some much more appealing reflections which took my quite some time to figure out how to capture them. Back in 2017 I discovered this completely natural phenomenon as I witnessed it just one time when I captured Sensitive Forest Beings and I only took about five to ten pictures of it. Actually I didn't think, I would find a scenery like this again, but finally in spring 2018 I spent many hours looking for something similar and finally I could observe and photograph it way more extensive. Now I know what elements (quite a lot) have to come together simultaneously, that this kind of reflections occur and so I've got the chance to "reproduce" it. During some sunny spring days I took a few thousand images of these sceneries and actually only on two different tiny spots in the forest close to my home. All images show handheld shots with no special technique or artificial light and of course without any scene manipulations.

Swell of gold part II - New Zealand part II

Monday, 29 July 2019

As I already mentioned, there's a second set of pictures I took during our days side by side with the Hector's Dolphins in New Zealand. According to the Department of Conservation today the total number of Hector's Dolphins is esimated around 15,000 animals. They are mainly threatened by fishing (nets), which is/are responsible for substantial population declines in the last four decades, but also by oil and gas exploration, boat strikes, mining, tourism, noise and diseases. At approximately 1.2 to 1.6m in length, they are not only one of the smallest and rarest but in my opinion also one of the cutest and most playful cetaceans. Finally we've been lucky enough to not only spot them in The Catlins, we also had some sightings along the west coast around the amazing swamp forests of Ship Creek.

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