The early bird…

Posted on Mai 14th, 2014

I hate waking up early in the morning but sleeping in the tent was anyway not so  comfortable. We built up the tent on an uneven ground, therefore I was sonstantly gliding of my mat. The whole two hours we had to sleep between the starscape shots and the sunrise.
So it was not as hard as usual to stand up, the hard time was coming later. But this time I was awake early enough to see the “Alpenglühen” when the sun was hitting first peaks with her red beams. It is always very impressiv to see the sunrise in the mountains, especially I can fight my lazy bones.

When the sun goes down in the mountains

Posted on Mai 13th, 2014

After a steep climb through the snow, I was at my destination on the right time for once. WOW! I had even enough time to check out the places where I have a good sight from the Tschentenalp. For the first part I took the cablecar and the last part I had to walk. And the good thing was, they had night sledging, therefore I could take the cablecar down again.
I stayed approximately four hours on the peak. I was on the top before the sunset and I didn’t leave until the clouds coverd all my beloved stars in the sky. AWhen I was back at my car, the sky was clear again, grml. But I could take some very beautiful images, like this one.

Bloomy monday

Posted on Mai 12th, 2014

After stressfull weekend I can show you some beautiful flowers. The Bleeding Hearts are blooming again.
I like the color contrast with the yellow flowers on the background. As everything is blooming I am preparing for the next attack of hay fever, when the grasses begin to bloom. Probably this year is it short but intense.

The hidden thing

Posted on Mai 9th, 2014

Today I was walking with my dog Bubu, like every day, as he begun snooping around nervously. What was he smelling? Okay, Bubu always finds something that smells interesting, that’s nothing special. But as I went to see what exactly he was looking at, I was really surprised.

There was something small hidden in the grass. It was not moving. And when I went looking closer, it was a tiny baby fox. Right beside the path where I am walking every day. And of course I had no camera with me, but wait, my Nexus 5 is in my pocket.
I pulled it out, fumbled on the touchscreen with one hand and controlled Bubu on the leash with my other hand and at the end I managed both and shot an image of this sweet baby fox.

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.

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/

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.