The longer we were in the air that evening, the more bands of clouds made themselves noticeable in the west over the North Sea — the sun only came into effect a little and the Wadden Sea looked mostly gray … read more or write a comment …
The middle of the three outer sands in the Wadden Sea National Park and just as special. Since the 1990s, a new island is emerging in the northwest of the sand. At first, only dunes that overtopped most floods, now … read more or write a comment …
Between the Norderoogsand and the Japsand further north, there is still a tidal channel that drains the Hoogeloch. It is expected that it will silted up in the near future, because the Norderoogsand is expanding strongly to the north-east and … read more or write a comment …
The south coast of Nordoogsand has looked like this for many years. As I flew over here now, I remembered one of the seal safaris we had done between 2016 and 2019. That’s when we had mostly docked at this … read more or write a comment …
At the transition of the large outer sands to the tidal flats. The sun illuminates the sandy bottom, while the clouds are reflected on the still slightly overwashed mudflats. The two main colors in this motif alone impress me — … read more or write a comment …
On the back side of the Süderoog sand, tideways run along, draining the mudflats between the sand and the Halligen and islands. The tideway directly on the east side of the sand is particularly noticeable. Shortly before it flows out … read more or write a comment …
This mighty flower of the rhododendron bush I could also only take with focus stacking technique, especially to be able to sharply depict the pistils and stamens together with the petals. Here I found it special that only one flower … read more or write a comment …
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 …
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 …