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One more photograph from the same location. A Blue Heron having a rest on the “kingfisher branch”.
An additional series of random Austrian bird captures will be online her soon. As always, I hope you liked what you saw and you will drop by in my little blog sooner or later. Cheers, have a good one!

One of the first photographs of our trip. Not a bad scenery for a starter, I guess ;)

Most of the lava rock ground is rather barren but one can also discover amazing flowers like this big orchid.

On our way back …

The rocky mountain landscapes often seem pretty rough but due to the fact, that there are no thunderstorms at this time of the year, we deeply enjoyed wandering around also during dark weather conditions.

To be honest, I didn’t notice these beautiful orchids until this year. But this summer it seemed to me, they can be found in numerous different areas. I will probably pay more attention on them in the future.
Hopefully you all could spend and enjoy a few great summer days at the lakeside, in the mountains or anywhere else out there as I did. By now I’m really looking forward to my upcoming travel experiences :) Have a good time everyone, see you soon!

We discovered the first couple of fire flies along the creek, before we noticed, that there are much more in the woods.

The subadults always had an eye on me.
Although I focused my photography on the ibexes, I had the pleasure to have lots of other delightful sightings. At this time of the year, when spring slowly takes over the command, you can find numerous bloomy alpine flowers like the famous gentian, pasque flowers and much more. And already on my first morning up there I was extremely lucky to spot a bearded volture as it was suddenly flying above a glacier lake and finally sat down on a rock where I had the chance to observe it for about half an hour until I was “disturbed” by two battling bucks ;) Furthermore I could observe chamois and of course countless marmots, which can be found almost everywhere on the alpine meadows. All of this takes place surrounded by a stunning landscape. A great place indeed.

The moment you realise you ordered way too much strawberry and blueberry ice cream ;)
Last but not least I would like to point out to my October workshop at Lake Almsee again. If you haven't done already, visit Workshops for all the info or just get in touch with me directly for any furhter questions or booking. Thanks!

Since I'm always looking for new lovely places, I'm very happy I found this beautiful location, with a great view to the mountain range of the Totes Gebirge, a few days back. And I really love the mood here.
I guess I will do stitched panorams more often in the future. Beside the fact, that they allow me to capture a bigger scene, they also have the benefit of a much higher resolution, which can be very useful in terms of large prints, of course.

This particular frosty morning the fog above the lake was so heavy that I couldn't see anything in the distance. So I decided to exclude the lake from my images and I moved to the other side of the water where I could get a glimpse of the peaks and I could also find some appealing foreground.

Rough and rocky terrain occupied by some rather small trees.

Similar appearance, completely different mammal. Red Fox while I was waiting for the Red Deer.

Homelandscapes part II

Tuesday, 18 April 2017

Here's the second half of my random mostly-landscape images I mainly took last summer in Lower and Upper Austria. Of course these are not the most spectacular photographs I have, but lovely memories of some very nice days and nights out there.

Find the nuthatch ;)
In a few weeks the bird life will reach its annual peak here in Austria and of course I’m already looking forward to it. One of the best places for bird experiences is the Neusiedlersee-Seewinkel National Park. And the Bird-Experience is a great opportunity for people who are interested in birds. This year the event will take place from April 15^th to 23^rd and I’m honored to be invited to display some of my work there in my first exhibition :)

Days of testosterone part I

Saturday, 25 February 2017

Autumn 2016 was certainly my most productive season so far when it comes to the red deer rut. Last year I was photographing and experiencing this spectacle in two very different habitats. In mid September on the meadows of Lower Austria’s Danube Wetlands National Park and about two weeks later at the beginning of October in the mountains of the Carinthian part of the High Tauern National Park. I already visited both areas before for a couple of times, but mostly very unsuccessful. The red deer rut in Austria is actually extremely difficult to experience, because the animals are extremely shy and almost all locations where the rutting takes place are closed at this time of the year due to the peak of the hunting season. There are only a very few areas in Austria, where non-hunting people are accepted. So I’m very happy I finally could manage to spend quite a few memorable days among these animals and I also could capture some images. I would like to express my gratitude to the people who supported me in this project and made these experiences possible. Thank you!

For four weeks of our trip we rent this wicked van. Although the Patagonian gravel roads, like those in Lanín National Park, often stressed our car to the limit it always brought us to the desired destinations like this cozy place somewhere in the park.

European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016

Wednesday, 2 November 2016

I am still very delighted about my first time at the International Nature Photo Festival, which took place last weekend in Lünen, Germany, and I visited for the first time. To my great honor two of my images have been awarded at the GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016. The award ceremeny and the presentation of the awarded pictures to the public and the opening of the exhibition opened the festival on Friday and I'm deeply honored to be mentioned among great photographes and idols like Ole Jørgen Liodden, Michel d'Oultremont, Audun Rikardsen, Sven Začek, Klaus Tamm, Máté Bence, Werner Bollmann and Florian Smit. ... just to name a few of them. I highly recommend to check out all the awarded works on the website of the GDT.

Sometimes it’s hard to find the mammals in almost complete darkness to be there right before the light becomes good.

The forest floor in the wetlands before sunrise.

Snow can create a great background sometimes.

One of the biggest clumps of Lady's Slippers I know in golden evening light. If you look closely, you might also spot a Crab Spider on this image.

Their big eyes are mostly watching out for pumas, I guess.

Regardless whether an encounter with a mute swan takes place (in a crowded municipal park or in an untouched and remote area of the floodplains), these birds are never very shy and always good for getting closer.

This mighty wetland bull circled me on this meadow full of autumn crocus for about ten minutes.

Great morning moments on our way back from the spot you can see on „Fable‘s peak“.

Embraced by the warm light of the setting sun.

Gray geese grazing at sunrise.
I was especially delighted about the fact, that I could observe a few bird species I’ve never seen before like the long-eared owl, the linnet or the penduline tit. The next entry here will show the second part of my chess flower images. So, if you liked the first set, I invite you to come back here in the near future :)

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