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Mountains of diversity - New gallery

Tuesday, 8 March 2022

The High Tauern National Park is Austria's oldest and biggest national park, established in 1981, and since 2019 also home of one of this country's two wilderness areas. But, more important of course, the huge protected areas of the park are home to a very diverse fullness of life, habitats and eco systems. So, every time I can mange to visit this place it's an immense delight and fortunately I've been there numerous times in 2021. Sometimes on my own and sometimes with my little family, which is probably the most rewarding way to explore the outdoors, providing countless memorable moments, like the one, when I could show our two year old son a Bearded Vulture in the wild, for example. If you're curious, what kind of impressions I captured last year in these mountains, I kindly invite you to browse through the temporary 2021 High Tauern gallery.

As if this setting of trees, rocks and clouds wouldn't have been exciting enough, a massive Bearded Vulture appeared and we all could experience this wild and special moment of beauty.

There are literally countless waterfalls in the national park and so many of them are pretty impressive.

The amount and diversity of gorgeous wildflowers, like this Martagon Lily, on some of the rather unaffected montane meadows sometimes seem sheer endless.

The current gallery contains quite a lot super-tiny-scale-wildlife-shots like this one of Alpine Ibexes, ...

... this one of an Alpine Chough ...

... or this one of a Chamois. So, as always, I recommend to have a pretty close look.

An other Alpine Chough easily dealing with the changeable and sometimes rough conditions in its habitat.

And, of course, you'll find lots of Alpine Ibex images in this selection. They are just too photogenic.

Also rather small animals feel comfortable in this rough environment.
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Delights nearby - New gallery

Tuesday, 22 February 2022

There are six national parks in Austria and I visit five of them quite frequently since I started taking pictures. Just the one, which is located nearest to my hometown, is the one I haven't been for about eight years or so. Don't ask me why ... So my autumn trip in 2021 to the Limestone Alps National Park was definitely long overdue and I extremely enjoyed these days there. And since I finally went through all the impressions I captured there during my stay, I would like to share an other temporary gallery here, the 2021 Limestone Alps gallery. So, if you're curious, just hit the link. Hope you enjoy.

Lucky me, I experienced these awesome peaceful vista during the last day of my trip.

Personality of a tree.

Gentle morning fog during the blue hour providing beautiful calm conditions of soft colors and silence.

Always super delightful moments to spot some Red Deer.

Soul delights.

I was just sitting there for hours watching the wonderful changeable conditions.
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Nature Photographer of the Year 2021

Wednesday, 29 December 2021

I'm super excited my image Heat of Hoar came out as the winner of the Plants & Fungi category of the Nature Photographer Of The Year 2021 . You're invited to check out the entire online award ceremony or skip to my statement at 26:30 and to find some more details on the image here online. Also make sure to have a closer look on all the amazing awarded works. Congratulations to everyone else!

A great pleasure, that this little piece of nature's magic was selected from more than 20,000 images of almost 100 countries.
The media coverage of the Nature Photographer of the Year is also quite huge and I'm pretty honored, that there are numerous prestigious or large newspapers worldwide like The Guardian, GEO or Daily Mail featuring my work.

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