Meteora

This is one of those places, for a landscape photographer, where you feel awe and even fear not to spoil something, like wrong ISO, something not sharp enough or the wrong weather.

However, the weather leaves no choice and you have no influence over it, but if it is rainy it just sucks. I experienced already such photo trips...

Despite the weather forecast it was not so bad. Just once I had to land with a drone quite fast to escape from a cloud, that I saw from a distance, however I wanted to pack some more photos just to be sure to have a big selection of them.

Meteora offers a lot of interesting points. Those that can be viewed on google maps are great and on my way I discovered some many more of them. Almost everything is well seen and in good perspective just from official viewing points or just from a street, which connects all the monasteries.

Some advantage is of course a view from above.That gives more interesting perspectives, like winding roads or unusual views of monasteries.

 

 

There are some examples of this what you can shoot just if you stop on the parking lot. Not without reason you can park in there :)

Sunrise with view towards the Monastery of Roussanou. Very small piece of rock so stay stable...

This view point towards Holy Trinity is a little bit hidden. As well along the road. But not the main road. This road leads to some kind of picnic area called Meteora Tzertzi

The Monastery of Roussanou in the evening with the stormy clouds in the background

Shortly after the rain. Not far from Great Meteoron

 

 

 

 

 

There is a small from above glimpse how it is there with view points and roads

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Winter Zugspitzland

 There is a hidden unkown peak with amazing view towards Wetterstein Range near Garmisch Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany.

What more the Alpspitze locates itself almost automatically in rule of thirds frame :)

To get there you have to leave a track and wander a little bit off the beaten track. You can not even see this small hill from the path. This place called Hirzeneck offers an incredible mountain view with a little effort. Only around half-hour approach... from Kranzbach. Deep snow is a really slow-down factor. It is good to keep this in mind when going to catch a sunrise not a short breath ;)

Very nice place to observe the changing light. How it hits the mountains and changes the atmosphere around.

Very usefull in this situation a polar filter that cuts the sky well from the mountains.

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