The skyline of the alps

Posted on April 12th, 2014

Look at this, what a beautiful sight! It’s the view from the Selun mountain to south east over the alps. You can can see the lake Walensee and behind the Mountains of the kanton Glarus.
And who says a moonless nights are better to see stars? Maybe, but the moonlight is lighten up the wonderful landscape of this nice part of the earth.
I personally like this awesome sight over the Skyline of the Alps and every step at the steep way up to the mountain was worth it.

After work – Friday!

Posted on April 11th, 2014

Quick, go out and enjoy this beautiful friday evening. Go out with your friends, take a drink and have fun!
Like this people in Bergen, Norway we can go and sit outside in a mild spring evening. Okay if you life in New Zealand you may have already autumn and you are awaiting the first snow. But we here in Europe, we pleased for a friendly spring and a better summer than our last winter was.
In this spirit, I wish you all a wonderful weekend and stay tuned for an awesome new image tomorrow!

Good morning, sun!

Posted on April 10th, 2014

After I spent a half night out for walking and finding good locations for nightshots, I was already on my way back home, as the sun beguns to flood the valley with light. You can see the sunrays of the red early morning sun comes over the peaks into the valley and lighten up the peaks until they glow like beacon.
I hates to stand up in the early morning, better is stay awake the whole night and I can see the sunset, the stars and the sunrise.

The fontain and the stars

Posted on April 9th, 2014

Normally I shoot starscapes in the alps, because of the less light pollution. But who say it’s not possible to catch some stars in a city? I can see stars here, not so many like I do in the mountains but they are there.
This fontain is in the castle garden of Weinheim in Germany. The interesting shine in the sky comes from the fast moving clouds while I was shooting totally about 160 secounds.

Time to say goodbye

Posted on April 8th, 2014

So, now it’s time for us to bid farewell from a friend who never was really here. He announced to come but then he was too busy elsewhere and let us stay in the rain. And that was the problem – rain. It should be snow but it was only rain.
But I give you another chance and you are allowed to come again at the end of the year, but come on time don’t come too early!
Therefore, have a nice stay in the south and c u later my friend winter.

Bloomy monday

Posted on April 7th, 2014

And again, it was a beautiful sunny monday, more or less, but it was warm. The flowers and the trees are beginning to bloom and all around me are twitters, ah I mean birds.
I shoot this flower in my garden and used a speedlight with a cable. The exposure time was short enough to darken the background but the flashlight was bright enough for the flower. Only the flower in the background was to close for the flash.
In this spirit; enjoy the spring and the nature awakening around you!

Spring is coming

Posted on April 6th, 2014

I was near this beatiful landscape and on my way I could see how the mountains are glowing from the deep standing sun. So I was driving further until I saw a nice hill where I could climb up to get a panoramic view.
And oh no! I was to late and the mountains are no more glowing, *sigh* but the view was outstanding anyway. So I took some images before I turned back and gone home for diner, where my wife was already waiting because I was to late…

Northern lights – Swiss version

Posted on April 5th, 2014

Some of you know this image, it’s my profiles background. And maybe you want to know the story behind it.
Once upon a time in Switzerland at a beautiful warm spring day I was hiking to the Graeppelensee. It was the day I had the bad experience with a unexpected snow field, the snow field where I get wet feet! Did I ever mentioned, that I hate wet feet? Okay, I was standing in the snow with wet feet, took some pictures and was angry about the whole situation. At this point the clouds where hiding the moon and the landscape sunk in darkness.
But hey, I had I speedlight with me, no, no Mrs. Nature – not with me! So I could brighten up the foreground, while the background still had moonlight.
And now about the strange light in the sky. These are clouds, brighten up by sodium vapor lamps of all the villages around the mountains. And because the clouds are moving fast and I shoot slow, they smeared to this cool effect.

Churfirsten

Posted on April 4th, 2014

The moonshine was bright, the air was clear and I was on my way back down to the valley. But as I saw this wonderful view to the whole Churfirsten, I stopped again, pulled my camera and tripod out of my backpack und shoot this breathtaking panorama of the full mountain range.
Maybe you remember my visit on the Mountain Selun. You can see it here on the picture, it is the second peak from right.

Geiranger

Posted on April 3rd, 2014

What a sightseeing isn’t it? After I walked the way, you can see it in the picture, up from Geiranger to the Mountain called Dalsnibba on an altitude of nearly 1500m I was still fresh like a spring morning. Okay I didn’t walked up there, you can drive with your car up to the peak…
But the sight is really breathtaking. And can you see the lake deep down in the valley? This is not a lake, this is the sea, it’s the end of the Geirangerfjord with the small village Geiranger, where is about 100km away from the coastline and this is really awesome. The peak is only 1500m high, but you have to start at 0m altitude down in Geiranger.