Once in a while I wanted to update my landscape aerial gallery because it’s long due!
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- Gloomy Lake 2
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- Gloomy Lake
On this day my friend Quirin and I were hoping for a nice sunset at lake Eibsee. However all we got was a gloomy mood, the first time I've seen this lake in this kind of mood. I liked it despite the hope to catch a nice sunset 😉
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- The Green Divide
Nature is a really inspiring painter. It keeps changing its canvas slightly on a daily basis. Those canvases inspire us landscape photographers to see and freeze the display of beauty. In this example there is a nice complementary mix between red/brown hues from autumn/winter and fresh greens from early spring. I'm quite sure this very picture wouldn't work as nicely once spring will transform everything into lush greens. In fact, there is a dedicated season for every aesthetic highlight artists like photographers are interested in. As a landscape photographer I really like how this ever-changing canvas creates this synchronisation or connection with nature, which is based on visual stimuli and goes beyond the normal consciousness of time and the change of seasons. At least for me this connection has been dictating my holiday dates and trip destinations for the last couple of years.
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- Scars
It's always interesting to see how water leaves its "scars" in mother nature, which is especially apparent in the mountains. However this is just a minor display of this effect, glaciers are a by far more massive display of erosion.
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- Stormy Yakushima
Although I never got into a storm on Yakushima, the weather above our heads looked stormy at times. Fortunately, the worst weather we experienced during the whole trip was some drizzle and cold blowing winds. On our last day of the hike we met an old Japanese man who told us that he re-visited the island several times, because he got rained in during several trips and was happy with the weather this time, that's when we realised that we didn't really experience bad weather 😉
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- Over the Clouds
The amount of early morning clouds and fog was enormous during my visit at the Mount Buffalo national park in Australia! Before the fog rolled away you could only enjoy the view from high above.
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- Rushing Melody 2
Can you feel and hear the soothing sound of rushing water? For me that has a meditative feeling to it!
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- Gloomy Alps
During our last annual trip to the Alps my friend Alex and I experienced mostly overcast weather with heavy clouds. Despite minor frustration about the weather this aerial view from the French Alps shows the advantages of this weather, some very moody atmosphere!
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- Mountain Roads of Japan
During my last trip to Japan I was hiking and road tripping together with friend Alex. Some of the roads we encountered were really scary, especially in the higher mountain areas, where we could only find bendy one-lane roads, sometimes those roads were even blocked by recently fallen rocks, caused by ordinary slides or minor earthquakes. This means we had to got out of the car and remove rocks blocking the road frequently. In this picture I show you another scary element: oncoming trucks! I was lucky enough to get a drone shot with big truck transporting wood. I guess it took a while until we got used to those roads and situations 😉
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- Volcanic Creation
Every time I'm exposed to volcanism it's so fascinating for me. It gives the area a very interesting and distinct shape and due to the mix of minerals which were part of the ejecta different plants grow on the surface, which gives the area also a distinct colour. It's the kind of natural art which impresses me the most! This aerial picture was taken around Mount Aso in Japan.
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- Good Morning Kyushu
On the first day of our roadtrip on Kyushu (southernmost main-island of Japan) my friend Alex and I were blessed with a beautiful sunrise, one of very few unfortunately. This is an aerial view over the south-east of Kyushu, seen from the southern tip at Cape Sata. Only when I saw this view myself I noticed how mountainous Japan really was. The following days we learned this fact the hard way by driving over dangerous single-way mountain roads for hours, sometimes blocked by recently fallen rocks, caused by ordinary slides or minor earthquakes.
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- Surrounded by Fog
During our four day hike on Yakushima in Japan my friend Alex and I got surrounded by fog! Below one of those big boulders I found shelter over the night.
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- Enchanted Yakushima
Only on the 3rd day of our 4 day long hike on Yakushima my friend NicolasAlexanderOtto and me got lucky with the weather conditions for sunset shooting despite the wet and dull weather during the whole day and the day before. We were also lucky to have stopped hiking early to search for a suitable place to stay overnight on that particular day. Just when I finished building up my night camp the sky broke open. This is an aerial shot towards Miyanoura on the northeastern coast of Yakushima.
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- Fog Kingdom
During our hike on Yakushima in Japan Alex and me experienced beautiful low hanging clouds constantly moving in and out, it even lasted until sunset which was happening only 30min after taking from this shot.