Liquid sky

Posted on November 19th, 2014

It was an interesting sunset today. Nearly the whole sky was covered with clouds, but not the ugly November clouds, no the sky was well structured.
The sun was shining through the clouds, at some places more than at others and this gives this stunning structures. I took this image with a 3 images bracket series and made an HDR. But this time I didn’t use my heavy Canon 6D, I used a lightweight Sony RX-100 III.
And I’m really excited about the good quality of this camera. I think the noise is a bit stronger than on the full format sensor from Canon, but this camera is a point’n’shoot size gear. I will do more tests in the next days so I can say where the Sony has to be sort in.

A dull autumn day

Posted on Oktober 28th, 2014

Last weekend I was near the bernese alps, where I wanted to take some sunrise or sunset images. Unfortunately the only day with clouds was exactly this day.
So I beg your pardon, I can only show you this boring image of a dull, cloudy day without sun. It was not a warm, sunny autumn day with all the amazing colors you can imagine. No the fog was covering the landscape while the clouds in an upper layer also covered the blue sky and our mother sun.
Therefore the only mood I can show you is this image of a dark, dull and colorless autumn day…

Purple lavender fields

Posted on Oktober 27th, 2014

Now we stuck in the deep autumn fog. There are no sun rays coming through the thick gray mass. And after a really cloudy summer the sad thing is, the clouds are gone now. There are no clouds above us, if I would go up over 1400m then I could see the bluest sky you can imagine.
Therefore I need a memory for a sunny day in a warm summer, like here in the Provence. It was a warm, sunny and the air was filled of the fragrance from the lavender fields all around us.
Ahh, now the gray autumn day isn’t as bad as it was before

Moonrise

Posted on Oktober 23rd, 2014

Now it happend, the mountains are covered with snow again. We had a long reasonably warm autumn, which is now replacing by the winter.
We will see, how the photo weather is in the next few weeks. Maybe we can shoot some amazing winter images, like this with the rising fullmoon over the bernese alps.
Anyway the next few days should be clear and I hope I can take some nice shots.

The last warm autumn days

Posted on Oktober 18th, 2014

At this weekend we can enjoy one more time some really beautiful and warm autumn days, before next week the snow beginns to fall in the mountains.
Afterwards comes the bad time for hiking. All funiculars are making hollidays and the weather is anyway the most time dingy. But if this year is going right, then you can in approx. two month admire awesome winter landscapes in the mountains. We hope now for a short dry spell followed by a glorious winter.

Yesterday

Posted on Oktober 14th, 2014

I was writing the blog post of yesterday and was looking casually through the window to the outside. It was a really dingy day with rain and mud.
But what were my eyes seeing there? The sky was glowing pink, in the east! Not in the west, I can’t watching there, no in the east. Okay, I opened immediately the other window, lean out and watched to the west. What a show, is there going on? There must be an nuclear plant exploded, the whole sky was burning.
Grab the camera, snatch the tripod, take the first shoes I can see, running out and drive with the car up to the near pond. Nearly I was to late again, but only nearly… And yes, after that I had wet feet again, this was worth of it!

Sunset in the moor

Posted on Oktober 8th, 2014

I was here at the same afternoon, in this marshy high plateau. But the light was not as good as I wanted, it was simply to hard.
Therefore I decided to go again after the dinner, at the right time for the sunset. And lo and behold, it was worth it. Awesome how the mountains are red lighted by the deep standing sun. With such a beautiful light the colors are much stronger as in the blazing sun.

The last warm sunrays

Posted on September 26th, 2014

Before the sun hides behind the horizon, she is sending some last warming rays through the clouds over the hills into the snow covered valley.
So is the cold day yielding a more colder night in the mountains, therefore he doesn’t say goodbye without to play once more fiercly with the colors. As a photographer you are waiting for exactly such sunsets and sometimes you are lucky enough to be to the right time at a photogenic place, like here at the Chuderhuesi in the Emmental.

The wild emperor (Wilder Kaiser)

Posted on September 24th, 2014

I can tell you, this emperor was really wild, a whole week long continuous rain. Together with a room in a hotel, isolated on a mountain pasture. You can belief me I was in a real good mood…
Really rearly you coud see the sun. Therefore I was really excited, I could recognize, that there are also some mountains in the Tirol. But okay, so I could at least get a picture at the sunset and this get me a bit mood in the picture so far.

Oh shock a horn!

Posted on September 13th, 2014

Nah, this doesn’t really work in english. The mountain in the center has the name Schreckhorn, which is translated something like Shockhorn, so…
In the light of the sunset, hidden behind thick clouds, you can nearly recognize it, the Schreckhorn. This over 4000m high mountain in the Alps, seems nearly close enough to touch it, but it is still many kilometers far away and difficult to reach it.
And for the near future I limit me for much easier hikings in more flaten regions, this thing is much too exhausting to me, but you’ll never know and you should never say never…