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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April in south Black Forest

Short trip to Swarzwald. Interesting photo points, trekking routes, main highlights, which can be done in three days.

Of course some of them must have been left for later. We had to choose so that three days were varied and did not consist only of waterfalls or gorges. There were routes of a panorama, a mountain top (phot. the peak of Belchen -Most beautiful panoramic mountain in the Black Forest), a gorge and a waterfall.

Old watermills like this one near Elzach. Lots of small local breweries or the bigger and famous like Rothaus in Grafenhausen near Schluchsee, that is an attraction itself...

The real highlight is a Triberg Waterfall. Picturesque path prepared also for strollers. The Triberg Waterfalls are among Germany's highest waterfalls, with a drop of 163m and seven steps. You can visit them till 10 PM. The waterfalls are illuminated and you can enjoy a very special atmosphere.Parking situation is a little bit thight so it is worthy to be not so late.

 

 

For our gorge path we choose the short atraction in Ravenna Schlucht. We went there late afternoon and it was really empty. In comparison to Triberger nothing was like going on there.

 

At the entrance to Ravenna Gorge you can stop at the Ravenna creek. There is a nicely located small house, that you can consider as an interesting photo point for starters :). In the background there is a rail viaduct from end of XIX century.

For photographers a must-see or must-photograph point is for sure the curve just next to Ravenna Gorge. The well known piece of road is called Kreuzfelsenkurveand it is probably the most spectacular curve in the Black Forest. 

What I chose for myself for some sunrise photo shooting was the picturesque countryside around the village St. Märgen with the Ohmen Chapel.

The easy to reach view point with the panorama view over the lanndscape near St. Märgen with the Ohmen Chapel

 

Of course if you are already in St. Märgen it's worthy to get closer to the chapel. the chapel itself is an attractive object for some photos, especially from a drone.

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Flying high or not

It has been a long time from my last post and Dolomites trip.

Since than I didn't give up the photography but I don't have much time to describe everything. I've been planning some photo spots guides around big lakes near Munich. But the photo collection has been still collected :)


What I maybe mention would be my drone. I have a mavic air. Already a year. Like everything in my hobby combined with everyday life I do it, I mean flying, occasionaly.


And actually it is still difficult for me to focus myself complete on a frame on the telephone and compose a photo and at the same time to control my drone. It is somehow easier when everything stays on the ground like your tripod in front of your eyes.



Of course first what I wanted to try was top-down view and to photograph from such perspective.
But I try as well just a normal compostion. Both makes a lot of fun but is not that much easy.









So sometimes I get the drone not very high to try to catch some leading lines and early light

 

Sport grounds and colourful playgrounds invite to experiment

Canola field are the subject itself

Various streams are as well very attractive

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