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Hepaticas surrounded by the dead leaves of past autumn.

A very lucky moment.
This unexpected sighting of one of the extremely rare bearded vultures, during my last alpine ibex trip in the mountains of the High Tauern National Park, was probably one of my most exciting and lucky bird experiences this year. These spectacular birds of prey can grow up to a wingspan of 2.85m. Thanks again for watching, have a great and sunny Sunday everyone!

Spring deer impressions

Friday, 15 May 2015

During my time out taking images and looking for new photo opportunities this spring I ran into some deer from time to time. Sometimes a little bit on purpose, sometimes just accidentally. But since, due to all the hunting, both Roe Deer and Red Deer are extremely shy and nocturnal, it’s rather difficult to photograph them. Especially with a f 5.6 lens ;) As mostly I tried to show the animals in their habitat and to capture the mood of the overall scene.

Ankündigung Workshop am 14. Oktober 2017

Wednesday, 30 August 2017

Naturfotografie Workshop für EinsteigerInnen am 14. Oktober 2017 - Der facettenreiche Almsee im Herbst

Es freut mich sehr meinen ersten Gruppenworkshop ankündigen zu dürfen. Es geht im Herbst zu einer der schönsten und ergiebigsten Locations, die ich in Oberösterreich kenne. Zum Almsee. Ich habe dieses Gebiet selber bereits unzählige Male besucht und war jedes Mal aufs Neue überwältigt von dessen Schönheit und vielfältigen fotografischen Möglichkeiten.

We spent a couple of very enjoyable days straight at the sea on Valdés accompanied by some great sunsets and seabirds.

A frog taking a rest on the water lilies.

I found this nice setting in the floodplains of Upper Austria right as the sun came up.

A big bull strolling around in an open meadow just paying little attention to me.

Reed is very common in the national park and if the sun shines, there’re no mountains in its way to the horizon.

This fabulous moor area is called Wiegenwald and …

The alpine rose was in full bloom at that time.

This one goes out to all the portrait lovers.

Behaving like a swarm.
So, I was even more honored and meek as I had the chance to observe this particular herd for about two hours in an open meadow. I just sat down on the grass without any camouflage and observed them. Eventually they approached pretty close until they were about 150m away from me. They observed my quite curious, but to my surprise and pleasure they didn’t move away.

Birdscapes

Saturday, 23 January 2016

First of all I would like to kindly invite you to browse through my updated showcase. Finally I managed to almost completely renew it to make it more "my style". I decided to delete about 70 of 100 images like most of the landscape pictures and uploaded about 20 new captures to it. If you're curious, you can still find the former version here on google+. Hope you agree ;)

But of course the reason for this blog entry is an other one. Once more a couple of bird images have accumulated on my hard disk and due to the fact that they fit fine to my latest entry, you can see a few of them here as of now. And since I actually prefer to capture wildlife in its surrounding, you won't find any close up portraits here as usually ;)

There was only this single chamois out on the meadow that evening …

A fairy tale like scene long before sunrise.

The wetlands of Upper Austria near the town of Enns in spring during a gorgeous sunrise.

An Elephant Seal at dawn at this particular beach on Valdés where we sighted the Orcas in the evening before. We were lucky to be there right before sunrise, because one more time due to the extremely hospitably rangers, we could stay there for the night. This coastal area is strictly protected, but the rangers told us, that they have quite some troubles with rich people who just come here with their private boats for fishing and so of course they disturb and harm the marine wildlife. And unfortunately the rangers even don't have their own boat, so they're just left standing desperately.

Already on our first evening up there we were blessed with almost completely windless conditions and a mellow sunset.

Reflection on the water surface of some wetland trees in front of a burning sky.

One day the everlasting power of the surf will cause this rocky piece of land to vanish in the sea.

It was actually a little tricky to find the right composition which allowed me to show all the elements like the glacier, the illuminated peaks and the ice berg between the branches.
All in all I certainly preferred to experience the national park outside the core zone and in a more relaxed way spending as much time as we wanted in the different areas and with lots of good opportunities for wildlife sightings. The second part of the Torres del Paine landscapes will appear here pretty soon I guess. In the meantime I wish you a great spring weekend!

The wetland meadows are a good habitat for orchids …

Hidden in all the wonderful morning dew.

Happy after a very pleasant and productive first session with superb conditions. … no worries, these two flowers in front of my knees are located right at the edge of the meadow and I could take all my images without placing myself in the strictly protected areas ;)
As far as I know there are only two locations in Austria where the chess flower can be found and they’re in full bloom only for a couple of days. There’s an area in Styria an other one in Burgenland close to the borders of Hungary. To take the best advantage of the blooming period I decided to drive at night to be there for sunrise. And finally this was a really good choice because I experienced the best conditions during the first and the last morning during the four days I’ve been there. All the other time the weather was actually too sunny by day and overcast, very warm and windy in the nights, so that there was no magic light in the evenings and in the mornings and absolutely no dew on the meadows.

A majestic animal in its majestic habitat.

The time of the year when there’s a good chance to experience scenes like this.

I don’t know the name of this river but I really liked its reddish rocks.

A lonely buck grazing in the morning fog.

Actually all the Crab Spiders I've seen so far where placed on Lady's Slipper Orchids.

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