Photo of the Day: The First

Photo of the Day: The First

This is a bit too late, but these were some of the first rape flowers opening in this area. Taken already on monday, now the fields are even a bit more yellow. More to the south the flowers are already fully opened. The yellow rape fields are one of the trademark...
Photo of the Day: View to Westerhever

Photo of the Day: View to Westerhever

Somehow this view had something of a classic painting to me, showing the view to a small village in the countryside. This is Westerhever on the Eiderstedt peninsula at the German west coast, taken on an early summer day. My great-grandfather was pastor in this old...

Photo of the Day: Cuddled together

I definitely have something going with that sheep in the snow thing… maybe because they are one of the few animals left to photograph in these hostile conditions. These ones needed some warmth and came together in one corner of their field. Photo taken mid...
Photo of the Day: Not much left

Photo of the Day: Not much left

Only three more days until Christmas! (Here we celebrate on the 24th.) And not much left for this poor sheep, either… just some frozen plant that doesn’t look particularly delicious, if you ask me… Sheep are almost the only farm animals left that can...
Photo of the Day: Rye

Photo of the Day: Rye

Nothing fancy today… lying sick in bed, hoping to be able to go to work later. A photo I took in August close to a small lake some 20 kilometers north west from here. Photo data: Pentax K20D with Samsung 50-200 mm lens at 200 mm, f 5.6, 1/640 second and ISO 800...