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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Dolomites - the pearl of the Alps

When you once there you will never have enough of those views.

I had this luck to be there just for a week but in the colourful time of an autumn.

Of course I couldn’t visit and photograph all the famous and less famous location. I had to decide and choose because of limited amount of sunrises and sunsets.

This is the small foretaste of a trip

Everywhere there were no parking problems, but remember it was end of October, no summer, no high season and the hours when we arrived were as well either very early or very late.

Very early you can of course expect some photographers, very late some as well. 

But this experience in the Dolomites shows me that it was acceptably. But as well unfortunatelly absurd.

Some more demanding section weren't so full. Like the Alpe di Siusi. The way there is flat but quite long. Anyway I registered a lot of photographers but the area there is big enough to work peacefully. 

Of course full are Lago di Braies, Antorno, Misurina. Difficult is Antorno. Very thight. People have to mix themselves somehow to get the image to let the instangramers take their social media yellow raincoat photo etc.

Tre Cime di Lavaredo. Easy, flat way. Almost highway. But to get to the Rifiugio from the parking lot you will need ca. 2 hours. And in the evening we spottted some people and night no one. But the Rifugio was already closed. That's a factor for sure.

And of course Val di Funes. Overcrowded. With the fence and one small view point around the church of Ranui. 

Generally all this looks like Olympic Games. If your goal there ist to photograph. Everybody is running with a camera from point to point, to be the first before the others come. But it is hard not to give in to temptetion and not to have all this in your portfolio.

To hike, to enjoy the nature, to admire this is a faboulus place

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Allgäu - green hilly paradise

We spent one summer August week in  East Allgäu. This small but already established region, first of all among social media, is really rich in photo locations. You don't have to visit those most famous  locatoins like NEUSCHWANSTEIN CASTLE to get the feeling about Allgäu.
Itsels Hopfen Lake is already a magnetic point for selfie tourists.

Just riding a bike around, walking or hiking takes you to unforgetable places, which you want to see at sunrise or sunset.

We weren't very lucky with weather. However for our trips we could made an advantage from some indoor activities or we were counting on luck to get some dry or even sunny gaps.
For me as a photographer three first days were down the drain. The flat, gray, landscape.

Anyway to be in the middle of landcape mine let me to react quickly like  in a rainbow case ;)...
That's a great point to get a hotel on the spot or just couple of km away...








Afterwards I had to face the fact the sun was gone for whole two days. But than I could get two fine sunrises, both at the lakes...

 Hopfen Lake

in the morning hours no problem with parking just in front of location. And you don't have to pay... first after 8 a.m.

 Hegratsrieder Lake

I didn't know firstly where to park. First time there. So I went from above, where the chapel is seen on a photo. And I left my car as well above further away, at the crossroad, where the way to this house goes. But you can drive further left down till the lake, and there is a lot of place to park. In the morning of course.




And most besieged placed. In the high season you can forget to get quick on the Marien bridge. There is always a queue. But photographers they prefer to appear in a different time of a day. I have chosen evening. Unluckily not very atractive sky but quite empty location. Cold wind and late hour didn't deter another snapshoter and photographers.
Parking at such late hours is not a problem. All are empty, but I left my car just on the side of street just before you reach the Hohenschwangau from Füssen side.

Allgäu is not only this one castle. There are a lot of more either renovated or ruined.

Hohenfreyberg     Eisenberg and Hohenfreyberg                      Ehrenberg in Tirol

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Zanzibar dream

The june holiday in Zanzibar. Still low season with already slowly incearsing number of tourists after mid of the month.
I didn't see entire island just the essentials.
You can book your small trips in a hotel or just from vendors, catching tourist at the beaches around hotels.

 We spent our two weeks in Paradise Beach Resort. It doesn't have a super beach but the jetty with the jetty bar was an excellent substitute.

And became my subject for some landscape shooting in the morning and in the evening

Another direction was of course driving to the famous restaurant the Rock, that we wittnessed in the low tide

and Paje beach, huge and sandy, clean beach perfect for some photoshoting.

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The wild Isar River

Not even so hidden, easy to reach for drivers. With a lot of parking lots. The toll road between Wallgau and Vorderriß in Bavaria has a lot of to offer.

 
And first of all the nice spots for photographers.

Now it is a little bit harder, because the river has become really wild and white due to the high level and strong current after a many days of ranining.

But anyway the nature fans could explore hier new corners.
Like for example some normally dry waterfalls are now lively

The good start point for your photo walk would be for example Parking
3 or 4.

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Rottach-Egern

A year ago I won a main prize in outdoor bavarian photo contest in the "Bayerns Bestes" Magazin. I was awarded with the 5 nights in a luxus holiday apartment at Tegernsee in Bavaria.

Thank you to Ignazhof, Bad Wiessee for sponsoring so amazing stay

It is actually around the corner, so I didn't expect much unless you know the area well. I must say the Tegernsee is a little bit neglected direction and I should get to know it even better.
What I have always had in my mind and planned somewhen for my photo trips was the famous view at Rottach Egern from a lake-promenade

I have checked all the corners with google maps to find some place for my car.
And I think this small gap on the street, which I outlined is only doable out of main season.

Surprisingly I was the only one with tripod both in the evening and in the morning. With cameras, there were some people for some snapshots. Generally not crowded. So I could freely spread myself :)


Friday evening was really spectacular. With fast flying clouds. I was already afraid that thay would take all the light away, but the sun came at the right time to lighten the background up. Saturday morning was already a small annoucement of long rainy days, that came later.

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Flying high

I've been trying to fly a little bit recently. Not much time and May weather hasn't been the best lately.
Anyway the 1st of May was a good sunny oportunity to get the Mavic Air in the air.
Doing some research on maps to find some interesting spots is an issue.

One of such spot is an area od Osterseen in Bavaria...
I've been looking for as well some interesting canola fields.

Iffeldorf and Osterseen

 

some canola fields
near Gauting

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