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Recap 2018

Tuesday, 4 June 2019

Holy Toledo, time passes fast! Can't believe it's been already six months since my latest posting here in the news blog. So, I would like to apologize for my long absence here. For all of you who've been afraid, that I quitted photography, no worries, I didn't. Definitely not :) Nevertheless I just couldn't find the time to update my website. But since I finally finished processing my images from the past year, I'll try to work hard in my homepage to show you lots of "new" pictures in this blog during the next few weeks and to update all my galleries and the showcase which still only show images from 2017 and earlier.

Although it's actually a bit embarrassing to show a few of my 2018 favorites at the beginning of June, I dare to do so, because I guess this is a good way to revitalize this blog. Of course, I know that the second part of my 2018 Alpine Ibex images is still missing. I will display these pictures in my next entry.

2018 was an absolutely exciting year with quite a lot of new experiences and changes. Most important, of course, the universal beauty of untouched nature showed up in a completely new and irresistible appearance as our gorgeous son Tim was born in August and stole our hearts immediately. Besides that, I finally make my whole living by photographing nature since March 2018, which is definitely a dream coming true. I never thought, this could work out, but, at least until today, it does. And I hope it also will in the future. Furthermore also when it comes to nature photography competitions, it was an amazing year, with nine international awards in major events. And, needless to say, a lot more was going on in the past year and also in 2019 we already had a blast. First of all during a ten weeks camping trip in New Zealand (more on that to come).

The nine images you can see below are just a few of my 2018 favorites. As most times I couldn't hardly decide which ones to show. There are quite a few more, I'm happy with. You'll see these photographs again in some of my upcoming posts here with some background information. But in this recap, I would like to give you some technical information, like I also did it in my former recaps. Hope you enjoy.

Altitude encounters part I

Monday, 3 December 2018

Although I couldn't spend as much time with the Alpine Ibexes as I actually wanted this year, I managed to do two trips up to the mountain areas in Carinthia where these fascinating mammals can be found. The first time in early July and the second later at the end of August. Alpine Ibexes have almost been extinct in Europe by the beginning of the 19^th century. Only about 100 individuals survived in Italy's Gran Paradiso National Park. In 1924 the rewilding of these mammals in Austria started. Now there are about 4,000 individuals in Austria, most of them in the areas of the High Tauern National Park. In the meantime I already spent about 50 days with the ibexes and I'm always deeply delighted when they finally show up somewhere on the rocks or meadows. Sometimes it takes me days to discover them and sometimes only a few hours before I can start to approach carefully. Since the big older males are actually rather relaxed animals, I mostly capture them in pretty small scale using my wide angle lens which gives me the opportunity to also show the impressive habitat of the animals. So the main challenge is to place myself (in time) for a proper view.

Widescapes

Friday, 23 November 2018

Although I only create very few panorama images, I did a handful this year and I would also like to display some of them here. Sometimes the sceneries are just to big for one singel shot ... Since we only did one easy journey in 2018, all the images are either made in Austria or on Corsica, France. Of course all of them actually should be printed in large formats instead of being reduced to this tiny scale here ;)

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