Calligraphy of Light
A solitary, wind-shaped oak tree covered in snow and hoar frost on a foggy high plateau in Germany’s Black Forest.
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Winter’s Golden Script
Winter's Golden Script
Hoar frost coats golden beech leaves in a misty Black Forest winter scene in deep snow – a quiet detail of survival and adaptation in nature’s cycle.
Sumi-e of Winter
Sumi-e of Winter
In the snowy winter landscape of the Black Forest, oak trees are shrouded in hoarfrost and thick fog like diffuse ghosts, a scene reminiscent of Japanese sumi-e painting.
Chasing Stormlight into Midnight
Chasing Stormlight into Midnight
A powerfull thunderstorm passes over a cornfield in northern Germany and creates a spectacular sunset
Spellbound in Silent Solitude
Spellbound in Silent Solitude
In the stormy April weather, a thunderstorm sweeps across and mirrors in the panorama of the Schaalsee lake at sunset
In the Cloud Forest of Armored Fish
In the Cloud Forest of Armored Fish
The Kellerwald forest was an ocean south of the equator 380 million years ago, teeming with life and prehistoric armored fish
The Crown of the Forest
The Crown of the Forest
Beech trees still hold on to their leaves even in winter. In the dense fog of a gloomy winter day I found this crown of forest
The Tree Cathedral
The Tree Cathedral
This is how it may have looked like in the primeval forests when the hunter-gatherers held their rituals in the woods