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Beside the great mountain scapes and the extremely changeable weather of the national park, actually the wide and open landscape with its few and often small trees and all the mosses and lichens made this place so special for me. I’ve never seen such a big area covered ankledeep with soft lichens which are extremely inviting to lie down and take a nap wherever you want ;)
I think it was the right decision to visit the gorge at this particular day. Although I got completely wet and I only managed to do some classic creek photography, I’m happy with the result and I deeply enjoyed the few hours there strolling around in my gumboots.
I always really enjoy photographing subjects like these. For me, it's probably the most relaxing kind of photography. There is absolutely no hurry and so I often spend several hours taking images of a river section not longer than about 100 meters. And because of the "bad" weather I'm usually all alone out there ;)
Native bird mix part I
Saturday, 18 March 2017
Also when one is not after particular bird images, possibilities for capturing these feathered friends are actually quite frequent and so bird pictures are mostly slowly getting more and more on my memory card. Birds are simply the most common wildlife here in Austria and can be found almost everywhere and they’re usually way less shy than mammals. This entry will display a few random bird captures I gathered during the past year in Austria. Almost all the photographs were made in areas of the Traun-Danube Wetlands in Upper Austria.
Birds of Patagonia part II - Patagonia part XI
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
Since I'm already very much looking forward to my exhibition at the Bird-Experience 2017 in the heart of the Neusiedlersee-Seewinkel National Park, I guess today is a good day for my second set of bird images I captured in Patagonia. Before we started our journey I was mainly looking forward to (and hoping for) the Nandus and the Andean Condors. Actually I just expected to see just one or two Nandus but lots of condors. But as often it came the other way around. And I'm happy about that, because Nandus are even more intersting to me than condors, because I've never seen a cursorial bird before. Although we spotted quite a few condors, the photographic opportunities have never been really promising. Concering all the other Patagonian birds I didn't have any expectations, so that I was just looking what will come our way. And we haven't been dissapointed. We encounterd many different and fascinating birds. From man sized Nandus to tiny hummingbirds :)
Floris van Breugel once wrote in his blog: “Unfortunately no image can do this mountain justice; it’s just too big. Even being there in person it was difficult to fathom how enormous it was. The granite spires reminded me of the outstretched fingers of a hand reaching out from the Earth, grasping for the stars. Those “fingers” are each 3-4,000 feet of vertical granite rock, protruding from another several thousand feet of glacial terrain. The summit is well over a vertical mile above Lake Sucia at its base. If you have seen El Capitan in Yosemite, imagine that, but as an isolated pinnacle, and then put three of them next to each other, and put all that on top of another El Capitan made of ice.”
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