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Saturday, 6 August 2016

A few weeks back I spent a wonderful holiday week with my girlfriend, my brother, his wife & their lovely little daughter and my mother in the mountains of the High Tauern National Park in Salzburg. Since this was a three-generations vacation and not a photo trip, we did a lot of beautiful and moderate day-hikes and I only took my camera with my wide angle lens and my polarizer along on two days. Although all of the images are just hand held landscape snapshots, I enjoy some oft them, because they display a little bit of the gorgeous landscapes we were wandering through. And actually they also show, that you can also get some appealing shots midday and it’s not always necessary to get up at 02:00 a.m. ;)

A kestrel scanning the ground for food.

In some areas of the park you can find countless small but very appealing waterholes …

A little closer

Saturday, 17 October 2015

There’s a particular area in the Traun-Danube Floodplains in Upper Austria I visit quite often. It’s easy to access, offers a really nice view to a wetlands-stream, it’s close to my hometown and because of that I already know the place pretty well. Usually when I go there I locate myself at the end of a straight part of the stream, so that I can overlook the whole scene, get some nice light conditions in the morning and when I’m lucky, now and than an animal appears in the scene. And since I really like the whole surrounding there and I also prefer pictures of animals also showing their habitats, I rarely have the intention to get closer to the animals here. In the stream, there’s a specific dead branch, on which kingfishers rest from time to time like on this image which also shows the view I prefer mostly. This summer at the beginning of August I realised that the branch was way more frequented by the birds, than usually. And although I’m not sure about photographing kingfishers, because they’re probably the most photographed birds in Europe on the one hand, but on the other hand they’re extremely gorgeous of course and I’m always delighted when I meet one, I decided to place myself closer to the branch for a couple of days, to take some little more detailed images of this cute creatures.

It’s always exciting to see how fast the weather and clouds can change in the mountains.

From this year on also the great Ysperklamm gorge can only be accessed through a baffle gate with a ticket scan and along the most beautiful part of the gorge even more new stairways were mounted all the way up.

Taken during my first Alpine Ibex trip in the High Tauern National Park this year. I guess this was one of the most challenging ibex photography tours I did so far. The weather conditions actually were way too sunny and the animals stayed in rather unphotogenic and hardly accessable high terrain because of the hot temperatures. But thanks to the cloudless weather I had the chance to enjoy the stunning night skies which accompany the animals through the darkness up there.

Although it's spring, the warm morning light creates a kind of autumn-like scenery.

Unfortunately I couldn't get a proper shot of a male Magellanic Woodpecker, but already the females actually look very funny.

Five million star hotel.

The evening sun breaks through the clouds above this massive stream of ice with its cliff dropping 70 meters into the lake at the end.

A good example for an unexpected bird photography opportunity. I took this picture while I was out in Styria photographing chess flowers.

And also other amazing and rare wildflowers like Gentian can be found in this habitats.

Spring patterns of beauty part II

Wednesday, 29 June 2016

Meanwhile my trip to the fascinating chess flowers is already back about two month. So I guess it’s time for the second out of three sets of images. This year I was lucky to come back with a good bunch of pictures I like, so that’s why I would like to show some more photographs of these extremely rare spring flowers.

This particular rainbow accompanied us for about 20 minutes. Actually there were two of them. I’ll show a panorama image of this scene in the second part.

Floral summer snaps

Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Although I did a few very delightful and exciting hikes during the last couple of weeks, I actually spent very little time behind my camera or working on specific photographic projects and even less time behind my computer. Nevertheless I would like to serve you a few documentary style images of a handful gorgeous flower I ran into this summer as yet.

Lit up.

A good example for the fact, that cloudy skies can actually provide the most fascinating alpenglows.

One of those extremely rare moments of a sighting in the later morning as the sun already lightens up the scenery. So I experienced some truly intense moments during this fascinating close encounter with this charismatic and healthy looking wetland bull. A fabulouse creature with an appearance straight out of a fairytale.

A rather uncommon backdrop for a Mallard in flight, I guess.

... the lovely Common Hepaticas ...

Birds of Patagonia part I - Patagonia part X

Monday, 10 April 2017

Although the Nandus, the Magellanic Woodpeckers and the (Magellanic) Penguins (I will dedicate them a separte set of images here) are probably the best known and also most noticeable birds one will find in Patagonia, there are countless other bird species at this end of the world which are also quite intersting and beautiful. I prepared two series of bird photographs I took in Patagonia and here's the first one. Hope you'll like them.

A little fight in front of a spectacular backdrop.

Spring feeling along the shore of Lago Grey as a huge lonely iceberg floats around.
In the meantime I could actually manage to process all my 2016 images and clean up my hard drive. So be prepared for some more to come during the next weeks. There are 16 more entries of the past year in the pipeline. Ten of them will be about Patagonia :) Bye for now, take care.

A closer but distant look at the towers showing the everlasting battle between the clouds and the granite rocks.

First light of the new day breaks into the forest.

Superb conditions already on my first morning.

Sunset before the night in which we witnessed some very delightful and unforgettable northern lights.

From time to time you can also find these little birds higher up in the trees around the waters.

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