Photo of the Day: Taking it back

Photo of the Day: Taking it back

I loved how this plant was more or less growing out of the barbed wire on an old barracks area here in Schleswig. It is kind of symbolizing how nature is taking back that area, two years after almost all the buildings were removed, and who knows how many years before...
Photo of the Day: The Tree and the Moon

Photo of the Day: The Tree and the Moon

After taking the photo of the Cathedral on Sunday I turned around – and saw the tree below which the car was standing. It was lit by the car’s headlights from below and by the moon from above, while the last clouds were chasing across the sky. Photo data:...
Photo of the Day: Sugar Leafs

Photo of the Day: Sugar Leafs

Don’t they look like that? I took this photo in 2006 in Finland, on the frozen Aura river. Those leafs of ice occured one frosty morning, and they got me enchanted. A whole part of the ice surface was looking like this, like made by a confectioner. Yummy…...

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: Crystal hat

Photo of the Day: Crystal hat

On our walk on sunday morning we passed by this weed with it’s cute snowy hat. The blue sky gave a nice background color by reflecting from the snow. That made for a good but subtle contrast to the yellowish/brownish tones of the weed. Photo data: Pentax K20D,...