Rain. Sunlight. Crocuses
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This is how beautiful it can be after the rain in spring. The crocus flowers are full of drops and are made to glow by the flat sun. What a burst of color!

Gap Crocus on the Ground
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After a cold night, it looked as if the crocus had given up between the paving stones. Not only had the flower not opened during the day, it had also bent over and was now lying on the cold stones. … read more or write a comment …

Gap crocus after the rain
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This crocus is blooming from a narrow gap in the path. I have no idea how the bulb got there, as the bed is 10–20 cm away. But it is beautiful to look at, especially after the rain with the … read more or write a comment …

Butterfly Swimmer
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I don’t know what the architect had in mind when he designed the Alster swimming pool. Formally, it says that the roof is made of two hyperbolic paraboloid shells. But from this perspective, I see a butterfly swimmer (some people … read more or write a comment …

New Alster Swimming Pool
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The Alster Swimming Pool in Hamburg was built in 1968 and has a striking supporting structure consisting of two hyperbolic paraboloid shells. It was renovated between 2020 and 2023, with the striking roof being retained. Since the Alster swimming pool … read more or write a comment …

Brúarfoss Waterfall
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My photo report from an adventure trip to the Icelandic highlands began with a picture of Brúarfoss and I am now ending the Iceland 2023 series with a picture of this very waterfall. There are now 7 pages of blog … read more or write a comment …

Black desert to Vatnajökull
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On the way east through the black desert, the Vatnajökull glacier lay in the distance. Between us and the glacier was a vast desert valley with only a few old craters rising from the plain. These pictures show once again how … read more or write a comment …

Lake outlet
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A pure play of colors. Abstract. Rather atypical for me! But since I love bold colors, as well as color and tonal contrasts, I was happy to see this motif on the display of my drone controller. I ended up capturing … read more or write a comment …

Turquoise blue lake on the edge of a highland river
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I had this lake on my wish list ever since I found it on google maps. Because of the color, I have to admit I really wanted to use the drone to capture it from an aerial perspective. The riverbed … read more or write a comment …

Volcanic remains
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The last day in the highlands was to take us into the black desert on another sunny day. It was great to finally be able to drive through the desert with good visibility and see the remains of volcanoes all … read more or write a comment …

Black desert with grassland in the background
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We reached the edge of the highlands. Far to the west, we drove for a long time through a black lava desert, not a sander like the Mælifellssandur, but raw, partly block-like lava. A very rough landscape that makes me … read more or write a comment …

Highland mountains and an historic lava flow
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Sun and cloud mix and the right distribution of light. In the shade, an old lava flow runs through the picture in the foreground and the mountains glow in the background.

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