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Cozy canyon part II

Friday, 13 November 2020

Although the Thaya Valley National Park has its very delightful wild side, it's probably Austria's most tranquil and calmest national park. Anyhow it's the smallest of this country's six national parks. And because of these facts, I enjoy it so very much. It's such a cozy and peaceful place, but it offers quite a lot of possibilities for exciting encounters and sightings at the same time. The valley is home for rare and fascinating species like the Eurasian Otter, Black Stork, Bald Eagle, European Crayfish, European Green Lizard and so on. But not only the fauna there is pretty lovely, also the mostly unaffected woodlands with an extremely diverse tree population invite for a walk at any time of the year. And last but not least the Thaya River itself is a very calm and gentle stream which marks the border between Austria and the Czech Republic.

Cozy canyon part II

New life in spring.

Backlit mist always gets my attention.

The sculptor and his sculpture.

The small stream of the Kaja Creek is home to some of the very last European Crayfish populations in Austria. Not to be confused with the invasive Signal Crayfish.

I met this little artist one morning on a dew covered meadow.

Also autumn offers some gorgeous floral displays.

The "Burning Bush" contains enough essential oils, to set itself on fire during very hot days.

Two countries united in fall foliage. You can see the forests of the Czech national park area behind a curtain of Austrian leaves.

A lush, wet and serene morning in May.

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Cozy canyon part I

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Finally I'm pleased to show my first set of images I took in this crazy year of 2020. It displays the first part, out of four, of impressions I captured during my three trips to Austria's smallest national park, the Thaya Valley National Park. Actually Sabine and myself intended to explore Scandnavia again this year, this time as a little family, but as you all know, things turned out quite different and so we spent lots of time in the outdoors of our home country. In terms of photography, I have to say that it was quite a productive year for me so far. I managed to take numerous images, I'm pretty happy with. During the upcoming winter months I'll try to work on all the thousands of images I still haven't gone through to serve you some moments of nature's grace, fragility and value. Let's treat our natural world, like ourselves would like to be treated, because we are part of it and it is part of us. And although there don't have to be "measurable reasons", like facts about biodiversity, CO2 or economy, that convince us to take care of mother nature, this pandemic shows us pretty clearly that we cannot disconnect ourselves from it and it will survive us in any case. It's on us, whether we'll be part of its future or not.

Cozy canyon part I

Beautiful and fascinating creations can be found everywhere out there.

Actually not a native resident here in Europe, but probably one of the most beautiful ducks.

That's what I like so much about the Thaya River. It's calm and peaceful. What a great border.

Austria was already covered in shadows, while the Czech Republic still faced some sun.

I experienced rather special light conditions this morning. Soft glow from both sides.

Spoiler alter: The beaver didn't get it ;)

Eurasian Otters are definitely among my all time favorite animals. But since they are extremely hard to spot at all, moments like this are just unbeatable.

The great display of a rainy day in late spring.

This tiny trees found it self a pretty cozy bed.

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Final mix part II - New Zealand final part XXVII

Friday, 9 October 2020

Hello again ;) Took me quite some time to find a few minutes for my final New Zealand image series. As most of you probably already know, we spent about ten weeks in the outdoors of Aotearoa with our six months old son. And of course there would be sooo much to tell about this trip, but, as I already mentioned, I just can't manage to write all this down, sorry. All I will say here is that we definitely had one of the most enriching times of our life and I'm still so glad we went on this adventure. That said, enjoy this little set here, which will be the last one showing images of 2019.

Final mix part II - New Zealand final part XXVII

This was actually the very first image I took on this trip.

There are not too many places on this planet, I guess, where lush green rainforests and giant glaciers meet like this.

Our little explorer looking for new adventures :)

Stunningly doubled vista for our great pleasure.

Soft first light of dawn illuminates a gorgeous forest scenery.

Back in those days Tim was quite easy to carry around ;)

A little lake embedded in wonderful diverse vegetation.

A cozy sunset going down right on our tent.

A mobile phone snapshot as an ender to think about ...

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