This year’s happy holidays photo was taken on a flight from Frankfurt to Newark in September. Fortunately, the window of the Boeing 747-8 was free of scratches, allowing me to capture this beautiful view of the Apuseeq Glacier over Greenland.
The pictures from my series about the most dominant mountains of the Alps are the most viewed on my website. So I thought it could be interesting to offer them as a calendar. And here they are! The calendars are available in German as landscape version and in English as square version.
When taking the photos of Praia de Odeceixe from a quite high, windy cliff, I was surprised by the plants growing there. The diversity was really impressive. So I’m happy to share a little selection. Here a mediterranean thistle, Cynara humilis, also known as wild artichoke.
The westcoast in the south of Portugal is totally different from the southcoast: No sand- and limestone, here it is characterized by schist. The dark schist-bearing cliffs build a massive wall against the wind and waves from the Atlantic Ocean hitting the coast. The red sand builds a great contrast to the black rock like…
The “Rocky Algarve,” Portugal’s southern coastline, is a dramatic landscape sculpted by time, wind, and sea. The cliffs of yellow limestone and red sandstone are in constant transformation, where nature redefines the land with every tide. In my two previous posts I focused on the caves and arches. Today I’m focusing on bays and beaches,…

