Since early summer, my son and I have been hiking through the forests around Buchholz. We have now hiked over 200 km in the Stuvenwald, around the Brunsberg, in the Harburger Bergen and the Fischbeker Heide.
The picture here shows a section southeast of the Brunsberg. I always like it when the sun shines on the foliage of the trees from behind and makes it really glow.
With this dramatic picture I would like to say goodbye to the rapeseed series from Angeln. The picture was taken when we wanted to go for a short bike ride over Lindaunis. But then the rain front made us start our way back. Shortly before we turned around, the sun came out and gave us this dramatic view!
The light in front of the yellow rape, a little bit in the trees in the background. And the gap in the clouds created a stark contrast to the grey of the rain front.
Akeby’s horse farm and the Witt holiday farm amid the rapeseed fields surrounding the settlement of Akeby in early summer. I love to let my drones fly over the fields to the east of the settlement. The fields here are tilled in an east-west direction and so I have the beautiful symmetry of the tractor tracks that literally draw me into the picture.
How are you, do symmetries also appeal to you?
Again and again I had cycled past this stretch of land. I always thought how it might look if I saw the sand hook that had formed east of the narrows near Lindaunis from a drone’s perspective. This year I found ideal conditions. The fields were planted with rapeseed in May and I had a nearly cloudless sky as I drove to Lindaunis at golden hour. A line of trees cuts through the two rapeseed fields and leads in extension to the eastern end of Schneiderhaken.
The cover picture of this article shows only a part of the great panorama I took with the drone. The panorama, which is over 75 megapixels in size, shows an even stronger effect of how the bay at Schneiderhaken is framed by the rapeseed fields: read more or write a comment …
Like the chaffinch before it, a day later I heard a bird call in the whitethorn tree on the other side of the bend, which was still unknown to me. At first I didn’t notice the bird at all, but petals kept falling out of the hawthorn tree and so I discovered the Lesser Whitethroat shortly afterwards. He was plucking an almost faded flower. Whatever birds find in the flowers. I have a second picture where you can see the bird a bit better. read more or write a comment …
Between the rape fields in Angeln are the farm roads lined with bends. There I had already discovered the flowering hawthorn in the undergrowth and brought it along as a picture. Many of the bushes in the bends are the hawthorn trees that blossom in spring. They were already withering, which the birds take advantage of to feed on the contents of the flowers. Again and again I saw petals fall to the ground and sometimes I discovered a bird in the tree plucking the flower.
Here it was a chaffinch, which I was allowed to accompany photographically for a while. I already knew from my home country that chaffinches have a very short flight distance. And so I was able to take a few more photos here too: read more or write a comment …
The same rapeseed field as before, only this time photographed from a drone. In my drone shots I also love symmetry when possible, in this case the courses of the tractor tracks.
You can clearly see the gently undulating landscape of Angeln and the Schlei in the background.