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A blossom macro from our garden — once again a bee friendly blossom!

When the apple tree in our garden bloomed vigorously, I stood in the middle of it with tripod and macro lens to find decorative motifs. Of course, a technique called focus stacking had to be used to get all the … read more or write a comment …

I have been watching this proud robin for days at our kitchen window. I was able to take the pictures in this series from the open kitchen window — uncamouflaged. The midday sun made the bird shine and the shadow … read more or write a comment …

In the spring it becomes quite noisy in the garden around our house. Many species of birds, such as house sparrows, tits, blackbirds, chaffinches, robins, magpies and crows live here in the neighborhood gardens. Several pairs of blackbirds and a … read more or write a comment …

This view to the Port Waltershof with the pier Bubendey Embankment in front of it you can have from the pier Teufelsbrück, but so detailed probably rather with binoculars. When I was in April at the golden hour on site, … read more or write a comment …

The view from the harbor in the direction of the Elbphilharmonie I have often enjoyed, for example, shortly before the opening of the Elbphilharmonie with an illuminated Michel. Now it was more simple in the illumination, given nature. In the … read more or write a comment …

A few hours after the golden hour and already later in the evening it becomes more and more interesting on the new promenade at the river Elbe. I love the interesting structures of the lamps and their lights at the … read more or write a comment …

At the blue hour, the setting sun still illuminated the clouds in the west and so the facade of the Elbphilharmonie glowed in the background. At the same time, the illumination of the masts of the Rickmer Rickmers there provided … read more or write a comment …

Rain clouds at the golden hour and clear sky in the west. This can then sometimes lead to such light moods over the Elbe island Steinwerder, as I have experienced here. Across on the southern bank of the Elbe you … read more or write a comment …

This was a beautiful sunset at the Landungsbrücken in Hamburg. A rain front had just passed through as shortly before sunset the sun came through again. The Elbphilharmony and the Cap San Diego in front of it were warmly illuminated … read more or write a comment …

The last hours at the volcano and at the same time the last hours on Iceland — the next morning the flight back to Hamburg should take off. For a long time we had watched with many other onlookers and … read more or write a comment …

With dryness and almost 4 hours at the edge of the volcano I could observe many details of cooling lava. Again and again layers of lava push over glowing lava, tear open the slightly cooled black surfaces and present glowing … read more or write a comment …