An afternoon hike – part 4

Posted on Dezember 4th, 2015

Watch our hero! And he is so proud about his work.
As I promised you, this is what happens, if Bubu finds a mud hole. Because he likes to take a bath, he’s entering every larger puddle. Bad things can happen, if the puddle contains more mud than water.
And I can tell you, even two hours later, the mud layer was still there and the trunk of my car was also a dirt pool. At the end, after I was back in the hotel room, I take off my cloths, put Bubu in the bath tube and spend him a good shower. The strange thing is, outside he’s looking for every pond and couldn’t get enough, but at home he hates to get wet and you have to a fight for every paw.

An afternoon hike – part 3

Posted on Dezember 3rd, 2015

Now, after we reached the highest point, Bubu was taking a bath.
We reached a hut and sit down for a small snack and something to drink. Bubu could also drink some fresh water from a hose behind the hut. A few moments later and a few steps further, doggy found his bath tube.
As I told you yesterday, the ground was very muddy. What do you think was the condition of the ground of this large puddle?
Right, it was horrible, how much dirt can stick on such a small dog! See tomorrow the whole mess!

An afternoon hike – part 2

Posted on Dezember 2nd, 2015

And we are still walking upwards and enjoying the landscape.
Because of the rain from the day before, the trail was really muddy. I was walking more beside the trail on the grass. Every deep hole from cow hoofs are filled with water.
On our way to this point has my small dog Bubu some problems. He is always attracting young cows on our daily walks. They are running across the meadows until they reached the fence and watching their small fellow.
But this time are the cows and Bubu on the same side of the fence, so they were coming straight to Bubu and he was always on the run. Good for him, he was fast enough to make large bows around all the cows running to him.

An afternoon hike – part 1

Posted on Dezember 1st, 2015

You can’t trust it the weather, after a rainy saturday comes a sunny sunday.
And so I had no other choice to go for a hike. I grabed my dog and persuaded my brother in law to come with us and we started for small four hour hike with about 500m altitude.
After a while we reached the top of the first hill, I looked back from where we came from. You can see the road and the parking lot. On the other side is the Wartherhorn, which is still covered with clouds, like any other mountains around us. Therefore it was no option to climb a mountain, if I can’t take any images…

Bad weather again

Posted on November 25th, 2015

The third visit in Austria and again, the fat rain clouds are still following me.
On the second day, we had rain at most of the day. This short pause I used to go with Bubu. You can see our hotel on the other side of the valley. And the mountain behind it, the one with the clouds around the peak, is the Wartherhorn and behind it, there is the Karhorn, with a via ferrata. But with this weather it’s probably not the best idea to climb it.
But this time, we planned a trick to fool the weather. We stay until monday, because on all other weekends we booked, the weather cleared up on sunday when we left. And I can already betray you, it has worked

Flowers high up on the mountains

Posted on November 23rd, 2015

After my arriving in Austria, Bubu has to go for a pee.
So I took em and lift him on the chairlift and drove with the very last chair up to the top. Therefore was no chance to ride back to the valley and we had to walk down. Short after we left our chairlift I saw this nice blue flowers with the amazing view to the mountains in the back and I took my small Sony and shoot this image.
Meanwhile has my friend Bubu has other things in his little head. I heared some birds whistling and thought okay, they are high in the air, because I couldn’t find them. And then I saw the naughty dog sniffing and snooping nervously around. And zack, he runs away.
What Bubu likes, on all our walks, is digging for mice. So what can I say, all around us on the hill, I could find this mountain rats, also called marmots. Bubu was in the element, he doesn’t found only holes he could see, hear and smell all this big mice.
Okay, bubu is not the fastest hunter nor does he have any strategic sense and way before he reached a marmot, it was gone and hidden in the hole. I only hoped, bubu will not bite by a marmot because he stuck his nose so deep in the holes.
After a while, I runned behind this silly dog, shouting angry after him, I could catch em and for the rest of the walk he has to stay ‘online’

The daily thunder

Posted on November 20th, 2015

Every night around eleven o’clock, they are coming over our home village.
It’s the time, when I go for the last walk with Bubu the dog, first I hear it and then short after, they are thundering directly over my head, on their way to a far away destination. And they are so deep, I can see all the details on the planes and they are using the landing light all the time until I can’t see theme anymore in the sky.
So how to get an image of this planes? Planning is everything and I thought, it could be looking good, if the landscape is lighted by the moon and when is more light from the moon as in a fullmoon night? And it should also be a clear night, so I can see the stars and the planes. So the time comes, when everything was right and I left my home and hiked to the nearly hill for a good overview.
Okay, some parts are not as expected. The planes are not flying directly over the village and they are much higher as I thought. Also the moon was coming over the horizon, short before the planes were coming, so two days earlier would be more light. But on the other hand I have more sunset like, long shadows. Because I shoot this image in June, the sun setted not long ago and we can see last glow at the horizon and not only the light pollution.

Steel wool

Posted on November 11th, 2015

Bring some movement into the image.
As I told you, after our trip around the pond until we found it, there were already two photographers at the secret place. Well after we chatted and shooted for a while, they decided it’s time to unpack some fireworks for enhanced nightshots.
And after a few tries, I had also a nice image on my card. Okay in fact, this image is made of 7 shots. Three for the foreground, three for the stars and one for the steel wool acrobat. Because of the different light situations I needed for each part different exposure times. 60 seconds for the foreground, 25 seeconds for the stars, so we don’t have stripes and because the steel wool was so bright, I took it with 3 seconds and 800 ISO instead of 3200 ISO.
At this point a special thank to the other guys, to bring steel wool to the nightly alps.

It’s not the sun

Posted on November 9th, 2015

This is light pollution and not the rising sun.
Often the people congratulates me to shoot such an intense sunrise or sunset. But I can tell you, if the sunlight would still be visible at the horizon, you wouldn’t see the milkyway. To say it clear; if you see an image with the milkyway and a sunset glow at the horizon, it is surly a composition. It is also not possible to get an image of the milkyway, if the moon is shining. Maybe you can see a gleam of our galaxy but surly not more.
What you can see on this image is the light pollution from Italy which comes over the alps. And because of the rest of the clouds on the horizon, it glows so intense. In central europe is nearly no place anymore where you don’t have a strong light pollution. Even here in the middle of the alps over 2200m you still can see the city lights of the towns and villages.
But as you can see, light pollution doesn’t have to be bad in all cases. Because you will get this nice orange glow as a contrast to the green and blue tones of the nature. On the other hand, more milkyway you wont see in Europe, if you want to see more of it, then you have to take a plane.

Milkyway in the mirror

Posted on November 6th, 2015

Yes, you can see the milkyway mirrored in the pond.
After I turned my position to my left, the far mountains are no more visible in the mirror of the lake. But therefore I could see the beauty of the milkyway. And with a closer look, you will see the mirror of the milkyway in the water.
This is realy nice not even I could see the milkyway but I could also see it in the water of the pond.
For this image I need to take eight shots to catch not only the mirror lake, but also the milkyway in the sky. I took four images with 8 seconds and four images with 30 seconds for a brighter foreground.