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Westerhever - Stockenstieg bei Flut (1738)

Summer Floods & Rain

by Marc 07/26/2017 | 6 IMAGES IN THE BLOGPOST | 2 Comments

During the summer floods at June 26^th at the lighthouse Westerhever Sand we had a lot of rain. It was exciting to experience the flooding of the salt meadows around the lighthouse, but a drama for the birds because many of the them were still breeding in the salt meadows. I had taken all the images in black and white images to capture the dramatic atmosphere of the situation.

Here, where I could still be almost dry at the time of capturing the image, it was 30 minutes later almost 40 cm under water. How beautiful the structure of the bricks of the way is visible and how the storm is captured with the moving grass! read more or write a comment …

Thunderclouds above my head

by Marc 07/20/2017 | 2 IMAGES IN THE BLOGPOST | 3 Comments

Directly above my head, on Wednesday evening, a thunderstorm across the whole of Germany reached Buchholz. The masses of clouds were always in motion, and many dynamic structures where formed in the clouds. read more or write a comment …

Redshank (Tringa totanus)

by Marc 07/18/2017 | 6 IMAGES IN THE BLOGPOST | 6 Comments

It was my personal highlight of bird photography during the workshop weekend with Martin Stock. We just had a short break at the backside of the Eider Barrage, when we found this pair of Redshanks together with their fledgling searching for feed in the shallow bank of the river Eider. I could get 4–5m to the birds to capture this fantastic series of them. read more or write a comment …

Arctic terns

by Marc 07/10/2017 | 6 IMAGES IN THE BLOGPOST | 2 Comments

A small colony of arctic terns breed on the Eider Barrage in northern Germany. It’s a great location to take pictures of flying and breeding birds. Time and time again they blow up when they feel disturbed by walkers or other birds. On the picture above you can see how two of the birds attack each other.
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Löffler auf den Salzwiesen vor Westerhever (017)

European spoonbill in the salt meadows

by Marc 07/05/2017 | 3 IMAGES IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

At the beginning of the workshop with Martin Stock we went into the salt meadows to get into contact with the environment around the lighthouse Westerhever Sand. Just after we left the main path to the lighthouse the nature showed us a rather rare guest in the salt meadows near Westerhever: a young bird of the spoonbills (easy to recognize).

Seal Safari 2017

by Marc 06/28/2017 | 9 IMAGES IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

With bright sunshine we got to the seal colonies near the island of Pellworm. As in the last year, it was the ship MS Gebrüder of the two brothers Hellmann, who drove us into the wadden sea. We wanted to have some clouds, but we didn’t got any of them on this summer day. Most of the seals lay sluggish on the sand or tried to cool down in the In the shallow waterfront of the Norderoogsand.

Zirkus Roncalli in Town

by Marc 06/11/2017 | 5 IMAGES IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

During June 2016 the Zirkus Roncalli is in Hamburg and is playing its 40 Years of Roncalli show.I still remember my youth time, when I visited Roncalli with my parents. At that time it was a very special circus without lions and other wild animals, but with a lot of acrobatics and clown shows.

Currently the circus stays in the middle of Hamburg near the Dammtor railway station and it is lovely to see the colorful circus tent behind the trees every morning and every evening when I pass by on my way to/from the office.

So I went there this weekend to capture some shots during dawn. What a lovely color contrast with the red light in the entrance and the blue sky versus the green leaves.

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