Mushrooms in the bosk

Posted on Mai 7th, 2014

On monday I was hoping we will get a sunny week, but the week was become more wet. And what is growing on wet conditions? Right, mushrooms!
Therefore I’m  presenting you these guys, which likes this wet weather conditions we have here. Meanwhile I’m waiting for better conditions to shoot more starscape images. The good thing is, the next weather change must be a turn to sunny days

Bloomy monday

Posted on Mai 5th, 2014

Hello there, after such a beautiful monday, sunny and warm, I have to show a flower for good finish of this day.
I wish you all a nice week without stress and with a lot of sun.

The swampy lake

Posted on Mai 3rd, 2014

You know the nice pictures with the mirrored mountains in it? It will not work, if it is windy, like here. Not strong, but strong enough to get a dull surface.
Instead of a mirror lake I’ve got a slight view of the northern part from the milky way. It is not so clear, but you can recognize it. I couldn’t get nearer to the lake, because it was too swampy and the danger was I could become wet feet again.

The careless painter

Posted on Mai 2nd, 2014

I belief there was a painter and he was painting some stars. After he finished the last star, he wanted to step back to get an overview, but he forgot his color bucket, it tilted and the color was splashing in the space.
Watch it exactly the form of the Orion Nebula – “Splash!” And can you see the painter? He’s running away right above the SPLASH!, the running man.
I think if an accident happend, you can stand like a man! It’s always the same with craftsmen, it’s possible to find some good staff.

Latefossen

Posted on Mai 1st, 2014

This amazing waterfall was on our way from Roldal via Odda to Bergen. It was a bright day, the sun was shining, the sky was blue and the exposure time was too short. The water was not soft it was crisp, but I wanted it soft.
Hmmm, ahaa, good to have bigstopper in my luggage. The ND 1000 is so dark, you must set the full camera on manual mode. But then, I can shoot for 30 seconds exposure time even on this bright day. And voila, my soft water is in the box.

The wave

Posted on April 30th, 2014

If you are near Las Vegas, you should go to the small State Park called “Valley of Fire”. You will find beautiful stone formations. This specific one is called “The Wave”. Unfortunately I was too early in the park and the sun was high in the sky. The better time will be short before sunset, when the sun brings more color and longer shadows to the stones.
It is a smaller State Park and not a National Park, but the landscape is really awesome! Here is the official homepage: http://parks.nv.gov/parks/valley-of-fire-state-park/

Puppy Alert!

Posted on April 29th, 2014

Look at this! Isn’t it cute? It’s a nephew of Bubu, you know Bubu my dog. So small and inocent was Bubu too and now? He is bigger and I think he is still a cute dog, until he’s running away.
And watch the blue eyes of the little wouwou, they will change it later to another color, this is very interesting. This tiny doggy is only a few weeks old and already so curious to the big wide world.

Bloomy monday

Posted on April 28th, 2014

I found this colorful flower in a grainfield. It’s maybe weet, but it looks pretty between the yellow grain.
For this image I used a 100mm macrolens to get a soft fore- and background. It was late in the evening and sun was nearly at the horizon. This was helpful to get powerful colors. More I can’t say to this image, therefore I shut up and you can enjoy the image.

Stars over the sheep mountain

Posted on April 26th, 2014

Why sheep mountain? I don’t know why, they called this mountain ‘Schafsberg’. This is one of my first nightshot with only two images.  I used an astronomical tracking and so I could make an image with an exposure time of 120 seconds. Therefore I could shoot with only 800 ISO and I get a much more crisp image, with a lots of details in the landscape.
Ah btw, this is the same place where I had wet feet last time. But this time I was wearing better shoes and there was anyway no snow anymore

The moonlight paragliders

Posted on April 25th, 2014

It was a cold winter night, I was lying in the snow on the top of a mountain, ready to take some starscape images of the alps. As suddenly behind me a chatter was going on.
I thought to me, what’s going on and turned me around and saw a bunch of people. And you won’t beliefe it, they were folding out their parachutes and not a long time later the first crazy guy was starting and left the peak on the air. There must be about 30 paragliders up there and all of ‘em took the way back over the air.
Oh boy, and I thought I am the crazy guy, at night on the peaks with my heavy photo gear, how I was wrong.