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my daughter's school had an art project at the banks of our river: on saturday morning they created this beautiful stone snake. Andy Goldsworthy was definitely an inspiration for this. his film "rivers and tides" (4 min. clip on youtube) is surely worth to be seen (again).this photo on…

my best wishes for this our world and all people living here with us.this photo on flickr.Some rights reserved.

these pre-winter mornings have a certain depressive quality.cold but not really cold, old snow turned grey by pollution and simple dirt, low diffuse light and fog taking out a lot of the colors of the already de-coloured landscape. so i thought. but getting off sunday early morning and getting…

the sun was in the perfect direction and angle to highlight the iron nails and the lock as well as to shed some light on the the cast iron trellis with its golden coatingI had to change my raw converter as lightcrafts decided to drop the linux version of their lightzone raw converter. The really…

St. Pankraz church is built on one of the oldest inhabitated places in the valley of Bad Reichenhall. Accessible through only a narrow footpath, this location was safe from attacks from below and must have been an old ritual place, too. One of my best christmas experiences is connected with this…

click image to enlargebavaria still is one of the roman-catholic heartlands. no politician will stand a chance opposing the church - the green party at the moment has to learn this the hard way, it seems. this domination was in former times even a physical one, as you can see in this picture: the…

click image to enlargeyesterdays visit to ainring provided some more photos. perhaps not so creative as it is just a picture of someone else's art but this maybe is more a question of amour propre. those statues to the left and right of the baroque altar had something overwhelming for me - when i…

click image to enlargeafter winter came back into our valley for three days and brought some fresh snow, i used some free hours to go back to weissbach canyon to look for water and ice. those layers above covered several square meters of rocks. in the end they stopped my exploring of the canyon…

click image to enlargethis image is a lecture of seeing for me. our photo group wasvisiting a local vernissage and i made use of the occasion to train myfingers, and eyes so i thought. everything very conventional, some nicesnaps of kids and the artist, but no real picture. we went up tothe…

click image to enlargeafter the storm has been ebbing, i dared to go out again without having to fear flying branches or roof tiles. winds were still fierce so I captured the moving leaves.a second try where the shaking spring snowflakes here. So my new tripod proved to be a stable support for…

click image to enlargei tried to get a japanese painter for this scenery. found none, so i did it my way.this kind of layered landscape fascinates me since i can think, so i try it again and again in spite of the danger to get stuck in a clichéthis photo on flickr.Some rights reserved.

click image to enlargethe art of engineering: removing all uneccessary parts. engineering my picture, i applied the same maxim - killing the clutter.when my ladies were skiing, i took an hour off and went my own ways in a different, less populated part of this mountain (hard to find, i can tell…

click image to enlargeeaster monday i got some free time and went to an alpine meadow near the 'queralpenstrasse' (alpine transversal road) just 20min far from home. under the north face of Reiteralm there was still a lot of snow, and from time to time avalanches broke free high above our heads.…

click image to enlargethat excursion last saturday was extremely satisfying in terms of both the process and the outcomes. so here are two more poppy flower vs. barley shots.never before i had used the macro capabilities of my new tele zoom, but here, for the shallow depth of field, it is really…