View along the island chain
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I let my view wander a little into the distance, along the Vesterålen island chain. The further away the mountain ranges are, the more they have taken on the purple hue of the morning atmosphere. A small wave crashes in … read more or write a comment …

An early morning on the Vesterålen
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After the two rainy days on the Lofoten Islands and the canceled ferry, I drove to Langøya via the eastern Vesterålen Islands and the town of Sortland. I wanted to spend the main part of my photo trip here. The … read more or write a comment …

Castello San Sebastiano Po and the Alps
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The morning of our departure began with the Alps glowing, which could be seen quite clearly from the Castello. After the glow had slowly subsided, but the Castello itself was still in the shade, I made sure to get my … read more or write a comment …

Alpenglow
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The sunrise was beautiful on the last morning on the Castello San Sebastiano Po. Clouds glowed above me as I set off with my camera before heading for breakfast. I had walked along the castle wall to the eastern end … read more or write a comment …

Sunrise — the back side
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As I walked away from the lake on the sunny side, I thought of following the tracks of the moor railway once more in the Tister Bauernmoor and walking to a small lake on the west side of the moor. … read more or write a comment …

Tister Bauernmoor — Sunrise
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Finally the sun was rising! Above the large expanse of water a few bands of clouds, making the sky interesting. Large parts of the sky and the water glow orange. Hard to believe that in a few minutes this sky … read more or write a comment …

Happy New Year!
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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 …

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 …

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.