Landscapes

Happy New Year to you all! May 2023 be a better year for all of us. This week I took the opportunity to go out on the moors in the early hours of the morning hours and had an atmospheric time with … read more or write a comment …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

On one of the first foggy mornings, I had gotten up early in the morning, loaded the bike onto the carrier on the car and set off for the Lüneburg Heath before sunrise. The core of the nature park can … read more or write a comment …

The northern slope of the Wilseder Berg in the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park is full of juniper bushes and heathland. Most people will know the view from Wilseder Berg, but I liked it much better the other way around. Across … read more or write a comment …

On the east side of the Totengrund there is a group of trees with large beeches and it was beautiful to walk under them in full sunshine. The light under them was characterized by the green of the canopy of … read more or write a comment …

The Totengrund in the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park, located a little south of the heath village Wilsede is one of the most beautiful natural landscapes of the Lüneburg Heath. It is surrounded on three sides by walls about 30–40 meters … read more or write a comment …

At the beginning of my Iceland vacation, the Fagradalsfjall volcano had been active for more than 5 months and after I had experienced it active on Aug. 31, 2021, it had initially gone dormant for the two weeks I was … read more or write a comment …

Háifoss is one of the great Icelandic waterfalls and plunges with its neighbor the Granni over 100 meters into the depth. Here in the backlight, you can see only the spray of the Granni, which keeps moving into the valley … read more or write a comment …

Black highlands are abundant in Iceland, but here the peculiarity was that it was a riverless highland valley where only a few small plants can survive. Mostly only the black ash layer and some old volcanic vents were visible. Great … read more or write a comment …