Beach Lilac in the flood
The summer high water offered us some interesting perspectives. Beach Lilac in the flood, in the background the lighthouse Westerhever Sand
Summer Floods & Rain
During the summer floods at June 26th 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
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)
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
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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European spoonbill in the salt meadows
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
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.