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Days of yellow part I

Thursday, 26 September 2019

Following my New Zealand landscape images, you can see some Austrian autumn landscape impressions in my next two blog entries. Rivers, creeks and forests are always a good destination for autumn photography. How did I already get these shots with all the fall foliage in September? I took them back in 2018 ;) So, before the colorful season starts again this year, it's really about time to show these pictures, I guess. Hope you enjoy them and some of you are also already looking forward to this year's season of yellow, gold, orange and red.

A little mist above the water on a rainy day causes gorgeous conditions.

I just love it when the sunlight hits some fog.

Reflection of the peaks on a sunny autumn afternoon.

Beside the soft light, one of the best things about photographing during overcast and rainy days is the fact, that there is no need to hurry, because the conditions usually don't change quickly.

What an awesome display of colors. The Salza River surrounded by mixed forest at the peak of autumn.

A little Spruce hit by an intense ray of sunlight.

Where the fog scatters and the blue skies start to appear, the light conditions are always exciting.

Just a tiny area, but a lovely forest.

I only spent one day at the Salza River so far, but I was definitely blessed with the conditions.
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East of Aoraki part III - New Zealand part V

Tuesday, 24 September 2019

We've been in the eastern part of the Mount Cook National Park already during our first New Zealand trip back in 2011 and so we were pretty much looking forward to visit this awesome place again. And of course, we shouldn't be disappointed. The campground there is located in a really fantastic sorrounding and a great spot to start numerous different hikes into the beautiful montane environment. Altough the temperatures in the nights fell below zero, we were quite lucky with the weather, which provided lots of changeable, exciting and very windy conditions, but not too much rain and also lots of sunny skies. So, there was no need to hurry for us and we just stayed as long as we wanted. After that we went to Twizel again, before we headed further south.

I experienced super lovely weather conditions but also the heaviest storm I was ever photographing in during this particular morning.

Hundreds of icebergs gather at the end of Tasman Lake.

Aoraki in the distance and some nice lenticular clouds in the sky.

Although Aoraki is hidden by the curtain of rain here, the scenery was pretty delightful nevertheless.

Like on most unaffected lakes, also along Lake Pukaki wide open spaces and wet meadows with shallow waters can be found.

One heck of a sunset.

Dusk falls in above a glacier lake.

Wonderful golden evening light illuminates the golden meadows.

Heavy rain above the Souhtern Alps.
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East of Aoraki part II - New Zealand part IV

Tuesday, 24 September 2019

As I mentioned before the current three blog postings are about our stay at Lake Pukaki and on the east side of Aoraki, New Zealand's highest Mountain. During this part of our journey we first came across Lake Tekapo, but we actually skipped it and only did a short day-stop there to spend one night at the nearby Lake Alexandrina, which is a really calm, beautiful and relaxing place. We deeply enjoyed just strolling around on the endless meadows along the mainly untouched lake. Although, compared to Lake Tekapo, Lake Alexandrina seems pretty small, it would be a quite large one here in Austria. But actually we intended to go to Lake Pukaki for a couple of days of freedom camping. Beside the endless unaffected shores and the unreal emerald waters, the east side of the lake provides a great view to the Southern Alps and Aoraki. Since we only had a small van, we went to Twizel after our freedom camping to get a shower and to buy some food, before we headed to the Mount Cook National Park at the end of the road on the west side of Lake Pukaki.

Aoraki in the distance during a night illuminated by the moon.

New Zealand's very changeable weather often creates interesting light conditions.

Even in a rather harsh environment life succeeds.

Since summer was on its peak in mid February, most of the Lupines were faded already.

Dramatic clouds right above our camp.

I just love the ancient appearance of Speargrass, which grows up to about two meters in height.

The storm on this morning was so strong, that I had to use my bodyweight to keep the tripod rather steady.

A rainbow stretching perfectly above the illuminated peak.

There was a super spectacular sunset behind me, which set the sky on fire and the burning clouds created this lovely glow on all the rocks along the shore.
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