No stars in sight

Posted on Dezember 9th, 2014

It was another try to get some starscape shots with an interesting foreground. The weather forecast says yes, the nature says nope.
Therefore I was walking the whole way up and down without any nightshots. During the night the clouds were always there and I couldn’t sleep very well, but I was sleeping when the sunrise happend. And this was very sad, because clouds at night are not good but some clouds in the sky when the red sunlight is shining, is amazing.
Unfortunately I build up the tent a bit behind the pass and so I could see, what a stunning sunrise was going on behind the mountains, while I was packing my things together. So what I learned is, set always the alarm clock, even if you think you can anyway not sleep.

Bad weather at night

Posted on November 22nd, 2014

The plan was, walking up to the Spitzmeilen hut and making fantastic night shots. The reality was, we were walking upwards through thick fog. The hike was harder and longer as expected and the weather was not like forcasted.
Well it was not as I wished and the clouds stayed the whole night long without the possibility to see not only one star. But after the night was to forget, the sunrise was really stunning. The clouds are blowing away right until the horizon was become yellow. And so I could see a beautiful sky in wonderful snowy landscape.
And for the rest of the day and the next night, were I was no more in the mountains, the sky was totally clear and nicely blue…