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When the light conditions are suitable, low-key images like this can be made.

Probably my favorite couple this year ;)

The warm light of the setting sun illuminates the blooming flowers.

The cool thing about beech trees is, that some of them never lose their foliage. Even in winter.

… along the gravel road.

Extremely wind conditions like we experienced in Rondane most of the time ensure awesome cloud and light situations like in this particular morning.

A subadult woodpecker enjoys a cherry which was given to him by one of his parents.

After some rest in front of Austria’s highest mountain, Mount Großglockner (3.798m), they get up to move on again.

Gentle audience part I

Thursday, 27 July 2017

Also this season I visited both locations I know where the Lady's Slipper Orchids can be found. Actually I was quite unsuccessful in the Upper Austrian habitat but luckily it worked a little better in the Lower Austrian area. So you will only find images of Lower Austria here. Without a doubt these flowers are the undisputed queens of Austrian orchids and once more their stunning beauty and surreal shape fascinated me.

Tiny spider slack lining between the spring flowers along a small forest stream.

Towers of the blue skies II – Patagonia part VI

Wednesday, 15 March 2017

It‘s time for the second half of my random Torres del Paine National Park landscape shots. Except the last image of this entry, all the pictures you can see in this post were made spontaneously without any prior scouting of the areas. Actually something uncommon when it comes to landscape photography. Also for me. But of course we tried to avoid hiking in the midday hours on sunny days and we mainly went out trekking during the much more exciting early morning and late evening hours.

I only went to the new location in Upper Austria once, so it was more kind of a spot check than a photographic trip. This close up is one of the few images I took there.

Ghostlike this one returned into the woods again.

The day breaks after a clear cold night.

At the beginning of September some of the bushes already showed their autumn colors.

Around almost every corner you’ll find a lovely litte stream or waterfall.

… and I always enjoy shooting through subjects in the foreground.

The big full moon finally makes place for the rising sun.

The sun was gone in the morning, when I discovered this sweet field of yellow summer flowers hidden in the woods …

Vivid colors.

These two guys did me a huge favor as they started to battle at the edge of this rock right in front of a glacier lake.
All in all I spent four days with one herd of about 25 individuals. As I arrived up there at an altitude of about 2.500 meters above sea level, it took my only a few hours to find them. I tried to spend as much time as possible with this herd, always taking care of their behaviour to make sure I do not disturb them. And since I’m not the biggest fan of close up portrait shots, it wasn’t necessary to be that close to the animals.

The Erlauf River makes its way through one of the most beautiful parts of the canyon on a foggy late autumn day.

A sudden and very close encounter at dusk.
The second location I visited this autumn is quite different to the wetlands. It's located in the mountains of the Carinthian part of the High Tauern National Park. Beside the Red Deer this place also offers some quite nice landscapes but unfortunately there was heavy thick fog almost all the time when I was there. Although I actually really like fog when I'm out taking pictures, the extremely poor visibility made it almost impossible to spot the animals before they already noticed me. So I could only manage to take a handful of images up there this year.

Due to the stunning landscapes smaller things like wildflowers are mostly overlooked.

... followed by the well known Snowdrops, ...

Vivid Austrian leftovers

Wednesday, 26 April 2017

This will be the last series of 2016 images made in Austria I'll post here. The next set will already display some lovely early flowering wildflower shots. ... but back to this post. You can see some more mixed captures of wild non-bird animals which all came my ways by accident when I was just wandering around or when I was actually looking for something else.

A sneak preview of the Magellanic Penguins. They are just too lovely ;)
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The fairytale-like valley in Lower Austria. If you look closely, you can see that there are also other orchids around in the area.

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