24mm or 500mm in landscape photography?
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You often read that large telephoto focal lengths are only useful in wildlife or bird photography, just as I like to use my 100–500mm lens. But in landscape photography? I took the cover picture for my last blog post about … read more or write a comment …

Golden Sunrise at Schleimünde
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Just the cloud bank, the northern headland with its characteristic group of trees and the many water birds. Plus the sun just rising over the cloud bank. And my telephoto lens at 500mm focal length! That’s how this golden atmosphere at Schleimünde … read more or write a comment …

Dramatic sunrise atmosphere
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The sun had barely passed over one band of clouds before it disappeared again behind the next. Half an hour before, it still looked like one band of clouds, but now the layers of clouds became clear. It was great … read more or write a comment …

The sun comes up!
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After looking at the cloud band and the land and sea below for 3⁄4 of an hour, and everything taking on more and more warm colors, the sun finally appeared between two cloud bands! As if on command, the seagulls flew … read more or write a comment …

Silent Morning
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A silent morning on the shore of the Schlei. Only a few stumps of reed grass stand in the soft light of the soon-to-rise sun.

Sunrise in Fog
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One of the first mornings on the Schlei shore. One of the first mornings of fog. I was standing by the reed beds that are so typical of the Schlei shores. Then the sun started to rise.

On the steep bank near Wahrberg
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The steep bank near Wahrberg, located on the southeastern edge of the Holnis peninsula, was unknown to us for many years. Above is a golf course, which you cross along the road to Bockholmwik, and from Bockholmwik you have a … read more or write a comment …

Holnis — Blue hour
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What that already blue hour? The sun had disappeared below the horizon, the clouds above me and their reflection in the fjord were dark blue to purple. A few small, low-hanging rain clouds drifted through the scene and the horizon … read more or write a comment …

Old stack at golden hour
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Still the Baltic Sea lay like a mirror before me. Compared to my previous picture, I had turned my view here only by 90 degrees and looked to the north over the fjord. The tree remnant on the fjord shore, … read more or write a comment …

Golden hour at Flensburg Fjord
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Vacation on the Holnis peninsula. Arrive, unload the car and take the cottage. Then first time to look at the sky. In the late afternoon, there were signs that the sun would be in the sky a little longer. The … read more or write a comment …

Mangroves at the Baltic Sea?
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No, these are the dead trees that stand on Holnis on the banks of the little Noor. It was not until 2002 that the Noor, which had long been used as pasture land, was flooded again. This caused some of … read more or write a comment …

Approaching rain front
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This rain front came like a roller from the west towards the Flensburg Fjord. As before, at the light spot on the old stack a few days before, but not on such a big front as seen on this day. … read more or write a comment …

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