landscape, nature, photography, seasons, travel

Saxon Switzerland

Monochromia

Two years ago in October, I was in the Saxon Switzerland with some friends. Despite the bad weather, I got some impressive images.

Find the two men gazing at the scene.

FX, 14mm, ISO 1250, f8, 1/640 sec, 12:16h

More of my images can be seen at my own blog.

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bird, nature, photography, travel, wildlife, world

Travel Tuesday: Pied Avocet

Pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) / Säbelschnäbler

No, the spout of this bird isn’t broken 🙂 It’s really bent upwards. You can see them along the coast quite often, but only in areas without men. They are very shy in my experience. Go, where no men are, to see them. Sit down, and wait for them to come up to you. No quick movements.

Take care!

 

abstract, art, macro, photography, technical

Monochrome Madness 4-21

 

This is my contribution to Monochrome Madness organized by Leanne Cole. Look at here site on Thursday (Australian time), to see many more monochrome images created by many other talented photographers from all over the world.

I’d also encourage you to participate. The conditions are  published in each of her Monochrome Madness posts.

Take care!


 

 

landscape, long exposure, nature, photography, seasons, travel, world

endless streams of water …

pouring down Gullfoss waterfall on Iceland. FX, 24mm, f16, ISO 100, 1.2 sec More of my images can be seen at my own blog.

Source: endless streams of water …

Monochromia

pouring down Gullfoss waterfall on Iceland.

FX, 24mm, f16, ISO 100, 1.2 sec

More of my images can be seen at my own blog.

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art, landscape, nature, photography, seasons

Monochrome Monday: It’s fall again

The fields are empty expect the corn and some potato fields. Most of the empty fields are already prepared for the next year.

Temperatures are already quite low: max 15°C during the day despite the sun already has its warming abilities. Days became shorter and the nights longer. Later this week fall officially starts (although fall starts on September 1st for the meteorologists).

Take care!


 

 

animals, landscape, mammal, meeting, nature, seasons, wildlife

in the countryside

After a week of constant and often heavy rain, Saturday was a nice warm fall day. I’ve had some spare time in the early afternoon, so I fetched my camera and headed to the countryside. Much room on the parking ground proposed few other people around.

By chance, I met these deers, right next to the path about 50m away from me at an empty field. At first one doe with her fawn was lying in the sun approximately 20m from the edge of the forest. After a while both got up (the fawn first) and started walking slowly and relaxed back to the edge of the forest where another doe with another fawn was waiting.

I was carefully hidden behind some huge silage packs. So I was able to observe them for about 20 minutes. Although, three of them are looking in my direction in the above image, there was no fear to notice. They stayed calm, but constantly looking in every direction to make sure, they are still save and no predator is around.

A wonderful experience.

Take care!

culture, landscape, nature, people, photo-of-the-day, photography, travel, world

Travel Tuesday: cycling along the dike

 

I’m pretty sure, I said it more than once: you can cycle for days without having to climb up a hill when cycling along the German north sea-coast. You can either cycle on top of the dike or on the paved roads reserved for cars of the maintenance workers. No air pollution and no traffic (expect a few pedestrians, other bikers or some sheep). It’s really easy and relaxing to cycle here.

Take care!

 

art, landscape, nature, photography, plants, seasons

Monochrome Madness 4-20

This months theme is “trees”. I found this old tree in the national park “Mecklenburgische Boddenlandschaft” when I was in Zingst in May.

There are several fruiting bodies of a fungus growing out of the side of the tree. As most species of such fungi are parasitic on woody plants, I guess, this one too.

This is my contribution to Monochrome Madness organized by Leanne Cole. Look at here site on Thursday (Australian time), to see many more monochrome images created by many other talented photographers from all over the world.

I’d also encourage you to participate. The conditions are  published in each of her Monochrome Madness posts.

Take care!