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knightrider

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:41 +0200

Oli rang me up the other day and was pretty excited: "Man! I have an idea for a shoot". A couple of LEDs, a lonly skatepark far off, darkness, my good old SB800 - that I haven't used for ages - et voilá.... looks easy, doesn't it?. Actually, this was one of the later shots. Oli had to get used to the dim light and I had to trigger my flash at the right time. Not easy at all and happily no bails at all, and so sometimes the magic happens....

blindworm

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:55 +0200

I know, I know... I should have bought a macro lens instead of the big Sigma 500mm .... but hey, thats's murphy. I bet, this little blindworm wouldn't have shown up if I had taken the macro lens. Did you know that they belong to the family of lizards rather than snakes? And although they are called blindworlm their eyes are pretty good.

frankfurt skyline

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:18 +0200

I was tinkering with this one for quite some time. First I wanted to show the smog that and haze that was clearly to be seen on this beuatiful day and cut off all the woods in the foreground. Now that I made the 5th version of it, I think it is even clearer with the trees in sight. Damn big cities... no good for everyone.

sandy queen

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:59 +0200

Last day of our 4 day trip to Bergen ann Zee / Netherland and one day after Oranie lost the WM. Some little girl had dropped their stuff on the caffees porch and I couln't resist. This stillife was too good to be true. I would have granted the title to the Netherlands... next time.

jack

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:45 +0200

I don't know where you need to go in order to have a piece of cake under the plain sky and not be surrounded by sparrows. They seem to be everywhere and along with the starling family they are to be found all around our hemisphere. They are fast little birds, always there, when you drop a crumb of your meal.

shitepoke

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:37 +0200

Shitepoke? Really, that's the name of those... see for yourself! Actually this three-colored one belongs to the herons, off which 62 different species are known. When I started photographing some years ago, I thought those were rare visitors here in Germany but they seem to be everywhere, known for having a "cosmopolitan distribution". Lately a couple of families are nesting in Frankfurts Ostpark, so I could testdrive my Sigma 150-500mm lens and get some decent shots.

fly like an egyptian

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:49 +0200

Egyptian gooses are common place right now. A couple of years they where seldom guests in germany, but due to warm winters and the clima shift in general, they are everywhere to be seen. The bad thing about them is that they drive the old inhabitans of like the normal ducks out off their habitats.... well, where did I hear this already... ahh yes, the squirrels. Same here. World is changing constantly - mostly due to our intermission.

toadography

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:52 +0200

Living in Offenbach has many advantages. One is the "Grüne See" (green lake) is a nature reseve that is just around the corner. While attending it in summer it is hard to find a place for yourself, because everyone seems to be around, winter spring is far better. Big toad was sitting beside the main walkways an was lucky that I did not step on it. Still quite frozen and stiff it gave me the time needed to focus it with my 500er sigma. I already said it and will say it agin... I need a macro lens.

winters gift

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:54 +0200

I failed when trying to cling to my attitude towards the "bad" weather outside. I tried it, but I can't help to say that I am really fed up with this cold, dark, rainy something out there. Winter won't go this year and so here's another winter shot from our trip to Oostmahorn.

ice-o-lation

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:54 +0200

Happy New Year! Sylvester was set to be in Netherland this year. Together with a couple of friends we headed north to spent four days in Landalpark Oostmahorn. Sunday was our last day and we took a walk in the nature resort Lauwersmeer. We made out a little languet on the map that we longed to reach and when the sun was about to vanish, we finnaly got there. Frozen bogland below, fog right above and a red flaming sun that shed some warm light over the cool blue blue snow.

frogger

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:26 +0200

I don't know if i mix up somthing here, but see the crane I can imagine that those two little frogs, around the next corner, would make a good meal for him... or was it only the stork that's after those little critters?

crane

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:38 +0200

There many inhabitants in the Caldera de Taburiente. We were lucky too meet quite a few. I tried to take pictures of cranes around my hometown but they are very shy and just looking toward their direction often is enought to make them leave, so the only ones I got where those two from the Zoo in Frankfurt, that tend to show up when it is feeding time for the sea lions. Here we go... all natural, an all wild crane from the Caldera. EDIT: I am still learning and so errors are for sure to be made... this seems to be heron, not a crane.

branco de colores

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:52 +0200

Hiking the Caldera de Taburiente is one of the greatest things one can do on La Palma. Hlaf way back to our starting point, we found the "Cascadas de colores", colorful waterfall with its yellow water that trails through the whole baranco.

volcano land

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:19 +0200

At times you will find some hot spots on the south side of La Palma. St. Antonio and Teneguia are the last volcanoes. The letter erupted in the 1970s and shaped the southern shoreline, adding new land and buried old parts.

crabs

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:24 +0200

They are everywhere along the rocky shores of La Plama. Shy and fast are two of their characteristics that make them somehow hard to photograph. Gotcha!

heure bleu

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:22 +0200

Every evening we were swept away by unbelievable sundowns. The blue hour was the time when La Palma showed its magic.

thr33

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:04 +0200

It is kind of funny: You can try to hide and not move in order to get close to animals and you get very far. The next time you are loud, noisy don't care about any means of camouflage and you get even closer. I was about to shoot some pictures of a falcon on a nearby tree when a flock of goats passed. The falcon hadn't noticed me, but those three saw me instantly. When I turned around and shot this picture the falcon went off. I didn't mind. I had some decent picture of it already.

falcon

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:18 +0200

No, not the millenium falcon, but a real one. La Palma is the island of falcons. Around barancos around our house we hat quite a few of them, but it was this one that kept me going. Every evening it sat down on a nearby pine. I had a hard time getting close to it and even this time, it saw me first, staring right into the cameras eye. A nice shot anyway.

relax

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:12 +0200

The sea is a good place to think things over. Nothing more to say...

caught in the act

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:41 +0200

I am no big fan of dead center compositions but with this shot I had to break my rules. This little fellow was buzzing around the pool and kept constantly chasing off other dragonflies off its territory. It came back day after day and so I just hat to wait for it to appear. Shooting it with a 300mm lens was another stroy. Nailed it!

lizzards everywhere

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:26 +0200

Whenever you set foot in Karins garden you can hear rustling from different places. Its those little lizzards running away from you. This one was living on our terrace and on second day he lost his shyness and almost fell asleep during the shooting.

tekla

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:39 +0200

Okay, it is not wearing a bandana and isn't that cute like in the old kiddie flick Biene Maja, but beautyful in a way. Found it in Karins garden, not far from our veranda.

gloom

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:52 +0200

We hit the mark with our choice to go rent the Casa Bueanavista apartment. Las Tricias/La Palma is by far the best place to stay. This is the sundown captured right from our terrace. Every evening when the sun was about to vanish, the mighty clouds dropped down the hills and came in very low, rendering jawdropping views like this. Enjoy!

lynch

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:43 +0200

Up on the Roque de los Muchachos we passed several telescopes, sometimes hidden in the clouds. Take a close look on the horizon and you will probably see one.

iris path

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:18 +0200

A full rainbow is not often to be seen - on La Palma they seem to be quite common place. It was second day and our second trip our second rainbow and if you take a close look, you can see even another rainbow shimmering above the first. Two seemed to be the number for this holiday...

burn

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:24 +0200

I know, I know, it looks like one of those cheesy posters, but hey... those posters are airbrushed and this is for real! Low clouds as typical for the Las Tricias evenings

chimp blues

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:20 +0200

Winter is almost here. Not the best time to visit the Frankfurt Zoo, but I was keen on the new "Borgori Wald" - the all new ape residence. Looks like it is a full success. Compared to the previous narrow cages this is a real winner. A littel drawback for all photographing people: dirty, scratched glaswalls instead of ironbars. You have to find your spot, take some time and better use a polarising filter to get rid of the reflections... I had none and this chimp still got the blues, although living in a great resort now.

strung out

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:19 +0200

Today Dexter arrived - our new family member. Lutzi, our old Jack Russel Lady wasn't taking it too easy, as she had been all alone and was always in the spotlight. Dexter is young and first contact had been made. We'll have to make sure that Lutzi won't feel second best and than everything will work out. At the moment the old lady sulks a bit...

breakfast at squirrels inn

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:14 +0200

Little Mr. Nuts is once again out to get his belly full of tasty buds. I am really lucky that this little mischief ist still around, although I bet it is already the third generation.... all documented on this blog

pure harmony

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:43 +0200

An old saying goes: Red Sky at night, shepherds delight. Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning. In fact the red light is the result of particles in the higher regions of our atmosphere. When the sun sets low the photons hit the particles and mostly the blue part is held back resulting in such beauty. Shot at a one week stay in Bredene/Belgium.