For two to three days, an easterly gale hit the Danish and German coasts of the Baltic Sea. On the opposite side of the Jutland peninsula, in the North Sea, the gale caused a drop in sea level, preventing ferries from sailing due to the shallow water. The damage on the eastern side of the […]
For weeks, Germany, as many other countries, is reeling under a heatwave and a severe drought. For weeks, the sky without clouds remembered me of the skies of the Mediterranean Sea. For weeks, I didn’t take the camera. Two days ago, the weather report announced a front with clouds and rain. I took the camera
As all we know, the March 21 is the astronomical beginning of the spring season in our Hemisphere. But, in fact, Spring began earlier in Germany this year. Nature goes on in its unstoppable course even with the serious problems and disasters related to our existence. Spring is finally arrived, and we are having hot
I spent the first days of January visiting a very interesting marsh and wetland area in Hessen, Germany, which is an important migration and resting place for migratory birds and winter guests. When I crossed a stream I saw a great egret between the reeds. Every time I see an egret I must stop, step
Sometimes, transitions are not effortless, as they convey change, that is the movement from something that is ending, to something that could begin. In between, there is a “no man’s land” with incertitude, missteps and instability. November has neither the colors nor the skies nor the light of October, is not yet the winter, quite
We are now approaching Nature. Please disregard the subject-object split Mike Roman.Mind the Gap. Stravaig#5 Scottish Center for Geopoetics Almost every year, I take one of my favorite walks over the red cliffs of a ryolithe massif, somewhere (remember one of the rules of Nature First – The Alliance for Responsible Nature Photography: Use discretion
On April, 22nd. I had planned a getaway in the Taunus mountain range, to „celebrate“ the Earth Day, an annual event on that day to demonstrate support for protecting the environment. When the day came and the alarm clock went off at 6:00 am, I glanced through the window, seeing a rainy and cold day.
This days I realized how noisy our society is. In Germany there is always a road, a highway nearby, where cars and trucks come and go, or someone is working with a machine, or a plane crosses the sky… This days we are reaching high temperatures, the drought is a fact, and Coronavirus makes a
In mid-July, I visited the Lower Lusatia (Niederlausitz), a historical region stretching from the southeast of the German state of Brandenburg to the southwest of Lubusz Province in Poland. Lusatia provided much of the lignite, known as soft brown coal, that heated German homes and powered the country’s industrial rise. Lignite mining in Lusatia began
With the lockdown relaxing in Germany and other European countries, I decided to spend some days visiting a well-know Nature Conservation Area called Red Cliffs, in the basin of a tributary to the Rhine. The Red Cliffs are huge deposits of the reddish extrusive rock Rhyolite. The walk last around 3 hours, but taking pictures