Somewhere beneath the clouds should be Hohes Brett and the southern part of the Göll Massif as seen from Jenner. I hope to have time to do a multi day through hike over this area in the summer or autumn.
3 shot vertical pano with Nikon 85mm tilt-shift lens
Clearing storm on a beautiful Sunday morning down in Berchtesgaden national park a few weeks back. The peak in the center of the photo is Knittelhorn (2015m), the pass towards the right is the border with Austria and the Reiteralm group.
A few sunrise photos from down in the Allgäu last autumn. I wish I had done a time lapse of the fog as it cleared, was totally cool looking.
While it’s nice to take photos of snow, it’s not so nice to take pictures in snow. Saturday, from the other week down in Berchtesgaden. Didn’t shoot much, as you can see, the visibility wasn’t all that good…
I went underground for an hour or so this afternoon to play around with light and the ice-stalagmites in the Windloch Sackdilling cave.
The first photo is only with a single SB-800 flash remotely fired from behind the ice. It’s really cool how bright the ice glows.
At first I set up a couple of flashes on light stands but it was a slow process moving everything around in the dark. So I settled with keeping one flash on the ground somewhere behind the ice and using the other light stand like a boom and holding it at various angles. I figure I’ll go back again for some more photos and try a few new things. I like the contrast of the ice against the darkness, but maybe I’ll shoot off a few flashes in the back of the cave to help give a bit more depth to the photos.
Will the spring ever come?
OK, this has got to be one of the coolest parade floats I’ve ever seen: a V-8 engine straight piped into a fire breathing dragon and continually revved up by some drunk dudes dressed as medieval knights. Cool!
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Over the weekend we made long journey over snow covered autobahns and horrible traffic up to a little corner of Nordrhein-Westfalen near the Dutch border. The reason: Carnival. Saturday night was spend among the costumed crowds in Cologne (home to the tallest cathedral in Germany). I’ve never been to Mardi Gras, but imagine it would be something similar, except the for the German Carnival songs that everyone is singing and dancing to the entire night.
On Sunday we went to a cool little parade in the town of Ratheim, near where we were staying.
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Tilt-shift panoramic of Schneibsteinhaus in Berchtesgaden national park as seen from Jenner.
One of those moment’s where you go to take a “quick photo” while the girlfriend waits in the car. Not paying attention to time, you think you’ve been gone about 10 minutes when you walk back to the car only to be told you’ve been gone for 45 minutes…
