San Felipe

Panoramic stock photo: San Felipe and sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico

Somewhere along highway a bit south of San Felipe is some abandoned development of some sort. It looked like it would have been some nice place at some point in it’s history but now it sits abandoned; the old paint fading under the harsh Baja sun and the remaining roads ever more covered by the encroaching dunes. I parked the truck just inside the old rusty gate and cautiously wandered around, not sure if anyone still cared about this place or not. I walked down the ‘main street’ which led towards the sea and came across a couple sets of Mexican fishermen drinking beer out of the back of their old rusty pickup trucks. The beach was thoroughly covered in trash, so it looks like this was a common hang out place which helped fade any thoughts I had of trying to bribe the police as they come to arrest me for trespassing. At the beach was a nice view across the small bay and back towards San Felipe so I decided to come back a few hours later at sunset for a few photo.

Abandoned coastal development, San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico

A Walk in the Forest

A light dusting of snow fell this afternoon so I decided to head down the road and into the Veldensteiner Forst, of which I’m on the eastern border of. Normally the forests around here don’t interest me much, as they aren’t really ‘wild’ and are often plantations from the last century or so. But when a light snow falls it only reaches the ground in openings in the canopy, creating cool patterns of snow and green.

I remembered a road I had driven down some months back that had some cool looking areas with moss on the forest floor, opposed to blue berry bushes which seem to be more common but not as nice looking in the snow. The road is only about 5 miles away but it doesn’t really go anywhere so I never use it.

Germany landscape stock photo: Naturpark Fränkische Schweiz-Veldensteiner Forst in winter, Bavaria, Germany. Cody Duncan Photography

Germany landscape stock photo: Naturpark Fränkische Schweiz-Veldensteiner Forst in winter, Bavaria, Germany. Cody Duncan Photography

Germany landscape stock photo: Naturpark Fränkische Schweiz-Veldensteiner Forst in winter, Bavaria, Germany. Cody Duncan Photography

Germany landscape stock photo: Naturpark Fränkische Schweiz-Veldensteiner Forst in winter, Bavaria, Germany. Cody Duncan Photography

Germany landscape stock photo: Naturpark Fränkische Schweiz-Veldensteiner Forst in winter, Bavaria, Germany. Cody Duncan Photography

Germany landscape stock photo: Naturpark Fränkische Schweiz-Veldensteiner Forst in winter, Bavaria, Germany. Cody Duncan Photography

Germany landscape stock photo: Naturpark Fränkische Schweiz-Veldensteiner Forst in winter, Bavaria, Germany. Cody Duncan Photography

Pottenstein Panoramics

A couple more photo’s from Tuesday night.

Tilt-Shift panoramic of from above Pottenstein. I don’t often use ’tilt’ – to change the plane of focus – while making panos, but sometimes I think it gives a nice touch, as in this photo.

Germany travel stock image: tilt-shift panoramic photo of Pottenstein, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. Cody Duncan Photography

Burg Pottenstein, with it’s history dating back a 1000 years watches over the meeting of the three valleys: the Püttlach, the Weihersbach and the Haselbrunn.

Germany travel stock image: Panoramic photo of Burg Pottenstein, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. Cody Duncan Photography

Germany travel stock image: Fire in cave during festival, Pottenstein, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. Cody Duncan Photography

Pottenstein Ewige Anbetung – Lichterfest

Every year on the 6th of January the hills above Pottenstein are illuminated by fires for the Ewige Anbetung.

Seeing it in person is way more impressive than any of my photos. 17˚f (-8˚c) temperatures meant the hands were quite frozen after an hour or so up on the hillside

Bavaria, Germany Festival panoramic photo: Pottenstein Ewige Anbetung lichterfest 6th January, 2009. Cody Duncan Photography

Bavaria, Germany Festival photo: Pottenstein Ewige Anbetung lichterfest 6th January, 2009. Cody Duncan Photography

Bavaria, Germany Festival photo: Pottenstein Ewige Anbetung lichterfest 6th January, 2009. Cody Duncan Photography

Bavaria, Germany Festival photo: Pottenstein Ewige Anbetung lichterfest 6th January, 2009. Cody Duncan Photography

Bavaria, Germany Festival panoramic photo: Pottenstein Ewige Anbetung lichterfest 6th January, 2009. Cody Duncan Photography

Bavaria, Germany Festival photo: Pottenstein Ewige Anbetung lichterfest 6th January, 2009. Cody Duncan Photography

Regensburg

Last light of 2008 over Regensburg.

Germany travel photo: Danube river and Regensburg, Germany. Cody Duncan Photography

Germany travel panoramic image: photo of Regensburg city skyline at sunset, Germany. Cody Duncan photography

Winter Details

A bit different from what I usually shoot, but pointing the camera towards the sky these days isn’t all that inspiring due to the weather (‘German gray’ – my new term for the low gray and hazy clouds the cloak the landscape seemingly every day, and most especially at the weekends), so I’ve started to look towards my feet a little more than normal.

Panoramic photography with nikon 85mm f 2.8 tilt-shift lens. Cody Duncan photography

Panoramic photography with nikon 85mm f 2.8 tilt-shift lens. Cody Duncan photography

Panoramic photo macro photography nikon 85mm f 2.8 tilt-shift lens. Cody Duncan photography

Walberla in white

A couple panoramics from my wanderings to Walberla on Friday. I had hoped there would have been a bit more snow, but I seemed to forget that its the last hill before the ‘low’ areas around Forcheim, Erlangen and Nuremberg so it stays a bit warmer than here in the hills of the Oberpfalz. I also realized on Saturday, while heading to Sachsen for the weekend, that I could get to the mountains (big hills) of the Fichtelgebirge area as quickly as I can get to Walberla, so I’ll try and head there on my next little excursion.

First photo is that same tree from from back in October. Unfortunately, someone walked in the snow at the base of the tree (really, why would anyone walk there? Must of had a dog that wanted to take a piss or something) so I’ll have to go back again to get a better version. With more snow too!  Second pic is Saint Walpurga’s chapel (Walpurgiskapelle).

winter landscape stock photo: Panoramic landscape photo of snow covered oak tree, Walberla hill, Germany. Cody Duncan photography

German winter stock photo: Walpurgiskapelle, Saint Walpurga’s chapel, Walberla, Germany. Cody Duncan travel stock photography

Franconian Winter

This afternoon: typical scene of ‘Franconian switzerland’ after a bit of snow.

German travel stock photo: forest and limestone rock formation in Franconian Switzerland, winter panoramic photo. Cody Duncan photography

Snowscape

A nearly perfectly boring photo of nothing, well, of a cold nothing.  But for some reason I find it sort interesting.

Cody Duncan stock photo: Panoramic photo of barren snowy landscape, Germany

In Search of Winter: Part 2

Yesterday I was looking for a cool isolated tree in a winter field and somehow managed (well, it wasn’t very difficult) to find some small little road that had not been cleared of snow. Within about 30 seconds I realized that I had probably passed the point of no return and it was either keep going and possibly end up stuck or try to turn around and definitely end up stuck – wouldn’t be my first time getting stuck in the snow. Never found any cool trees, but I thought these power lines would be an OK substitute. I managed a pretty good face plant (without camera) when I was sort of ‘hopping’ across the snow and found the waste deep drainage ditch on the side of the road, which was filled with snow and looked flat. Second photo is of the same ponds as yesterday.

Panoramic stock photo: Germany, Oberpfalz; electrical power lines across barren winter landscape. Cody Duncan Photography

Panoramic stock photo: Germany, Oberpfalz; partially frozen pond in early winter. Cody Duncan Photography