I arrived in Lofoten on a rainy day in February 2025. All the snow that had fallen on Lofoten & Vesterålen in the previous weeks was melting. Rain, storms, even the ferry connections to the Lofoten Islands were interrupted for days.
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A picture that can only exist in winter, when the morning sun is beautifully flat and gives the withered leaves of the young oaks a warm glow.
It’s been a long time since I let the drone fly on the edge of our residential area. On this frosty morning with the fog just lifting, it was a particular pleasure.
What makes this picture so special? It was winter, very heavy frost, but no snow had fallen! This meant that the water surface of the pond could simply freeze over and was dark from this height. The trees covered in hoarfrost stood out from the ice, but also from the surrounding picture. And if you look closely, you can see traces of frost that has fallen on the ice near the trees.
The former Kattenberg Nord development area can be seen in the background on the right.
A clear sky and a young oak tree covered in frost.
A picture that you rarely see in our damp and sometimes foggy winter days around the turn of the year.
At the beginning of the year it was foggy in Buchholz for days. But one Monday morning it had cooled down considerably overnight and we had frost down to minus seven degrees centigrade. And so, when it cleared up, the landscape had turned into a beautiful white frosty landscape. All the bushes and trees were thickly covered with hoar-frost. It reminded me a bit of the infrared photography I do in the summer!
Then there was the glorious sunshine, which gave the young oaks that hadn’t shed their leaves a beautiful warm glow!
The only small cloud in the sky added the finishing touch to this great photo — it’s a wonderful impression I was able to capture here! And only a few hundred meters away from my house.
Depending on whether you see the tunnel from the canal or walk or drive over it on the built-up bridge, this structure has two names: Broad Street Tunnel or Black Sabbath Bridge. This bridge was recently named in honor of the Birmingham band Black Sabbath.
That morning at the blue hour, I also enjoyed the light here, which draws the viewer into the tunnel with the lamps on the canal path or the street “The Warters Edge” above. Behind the bridge begins the Gas Street Basin, which I showed earlier.
Today it is a popular restaurant on the edge of Birmingham’s entertainment district. It was probably originally built as a warehouse on the famous Gas Street Basin, the main canal in Birmingham city center.
I was once again traveling on business, this time as a speaker at the SAP User Congress of Great Britain and Ireland (UKISUG). The congress actually lasted three days, but as a speaker I only had access on the day of my presentation. In addition, the travel times were not exactly ideal and so I was able to enjoy the blue hour at Gas Street Basin on the morning of my departure. It was only a 5‑minute walk from the hotel and just as far to the congress center, which is also located directly on the old canal bank.
The restaurant was also brightly lit in the early hours of the morning, giving the whole picture that warm tone. There was no wind in the morning, so the water lay smooth as a mirror in front of me. Unfortunately, downtown Birmingham is full of skyscrapers, so it’s almost impossible to capture the old architecture on its own. Only in the centered view in the picture above was it possible to hide the skyscrapers. An equally beautiful side view shows the surroundings all the more:
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