Autumn Vibes

It's been a long time again since my last post. It is actually already a winter time but for a snow I assume we have to wait.

So I drop you back into the autumn with its beautiful colouring and moody foggy mornings.

I had a couple of possibilities to catch some autumnal atmosphere this year and last year...

 

 

Very interesting for top down catch is the area of the Eibsee, with the small hut island and whale-tail-like bay. Some things occur to you when you see them from above. Even google maps doesn't give that impression. But this is one of my main tools to look for any interesitng spots. Another example is the perfect horseshoe street near Kochel.

 

 

What I like about autumn are the colourful reflextions of course with some epic landscape around. There are some places I can recommend for such reflections-hunt. Like for example the Riessersee, just a neighbour of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

What is always on my agenda in the autumn photography is the landscape with fog. Which sa typical for cold mornings and mostly with the clear sky. To check, just to be sure, that some more or less picturesque fogs are going to appear I use weather forecast. And first of all one parameter which is Relative humidity, often expressed as a percentage.

You can check this for example on wetterzentrale.de

 

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Cherry Blossom

 

Spring is such an enchanted time of year when we are suddenly surrounded by the magic of colour and fragrance. This year I did a little hunt for cherry trees in bloom.

A well-known point on the cherry blossom map is Olympiapark in Munich. But you have to be aware of the crowds there since the place has become an Instagram hotspot. This is undoubtedly one of the most interesting places to photograph sakura. You can easly achive there a nice composition of the Olympic tower, park paths. It is also one of the first cherry trees that bloom in the city.

 

Another interesting place to admire sakura is the Westpark in Munich. The trees bloom at the same time as at the Olympia. There are much less people but also the area of the Japanese park there is very small.

Sometimes the inspiring frames are being created just unexpectedly. This are really places that you are lucky to discover just for you. Like this tree and car for example                                                                                                

But there are also other more or less hidden, known and unknown places that come into color in spring...

I know one small avenue with the white cherry but this is out of the city so I have to like guess or rather estimate when is it so far that trees are white

This year I was there too early. The flowers had bundles of color barely but I was lucky with some fog that really made a november feeling entirely with the below zero temperatures.

I've almost forgotten to mention another place with a late sakura. That appears one month or even later than cherry in Olimpia. This is a garden of the Dachau Palace near Munich.

You can consider this as a hidden gem. Not so crowded and last but not least the charming location of the Dachau Hofgarten on a ridge offers a magnificent panoramic view all the way to the mountain range of the Alps.

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Winter in the mountains

 Winter is slowly passing by. There are still a few places where the landscape will be still white for a while. Unfortunately, the sunrise hours are so early now that it is really hard for me to take a longer trip out of the city after entire working week. That makes me rather switch to a spring photography in the area nearby.

But I managed to drive twice in the mountains this year. And on the chosen days the winter weather were perfect.

I visited the area around Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Mittenwald. The second time temperatures were like really low. It was -20 degrees at 7 o’clock in the morning.

First trip I wanted to get the view towards Alp- and  Zugspitze from a new place for me. After some googling I found the spot, which I have had in my had like for some time already but I wasn't sure where exactly should I head. And this place is really easy to reach by car. The village Schlattan, near GAP, with the parking lot by the Pfeiffer Alm restaurant. So easy but if you don't know it takes a lot of time to look for.  And the other photographers don't help. Only a few share such secrets nowadays. I am not very surprised... because this what is happening now around Eibsee or Gerold during the golden hour, this is really a competition to get your tripod there as a first one....
So that's it. Mountain View, January 7th

And second trip. Buckelwiesen in February.  I remember that place from last year.

There was no winter at all. And I didn't have my
zoom lens that time.

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Zugspitze View

 

It has been already some time since I posted recently. 

But to stay in chronological order of my trips I have to go back in time.                                                                           I would like to get back to Dezember. Frosty time without snow but with a very clear view towards the Alps. And nice light

My to trips were focusing on closing up Zugspitze, the highest German peak.

 

 

 

 

Firstly I had a nice sunset and foehn wind, which makes an air around the mountains really clear..

...shot from Breitbrunn at the Ammersee.

Second time I decided myself for a view point on the easy to reach Hoher Peißenberg 988 m. You can get to your shoting point with a car and park on a big parking lot.

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