Bad Schandau

A rainy weekend in saxony switzerland. Seems like I have no luck with the weather when I head up there. I photographed a lot of streams and forest but I also wanted to photograph those beautiful views. Well here I hiked up to Carola Viewpoint in pouring rain, waited for more than half an hour in pouring rain for a change that didn't come and finally decided to snap a shot and make my way back down. As this is the only photo I took that evening I'm even more pleased with the outcome. I didn't expect much.

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Last Weekend me and a couple of fellow landscapers from germany went to saxony Switzerland once more. The hopes were high, as usual. We wanted to photograph a view with fog in the valley and some magic light in the sky. But again either we had no fog at all or it completely fogged up.

Here is a view from the Schrammsteinaussicht, I shot during sunrise. We got up 3:15am hiked 45 minutes through the dark and were greeted by clear skies. Not ideal but ok, at least some color was there. We started shooting east, and the light just didn't get as intense as I had hoped. So I switched my position and went to this viewpoint, facing west.

You can bet just as I setup my tripod there I looked back east to see the sky starting to glow very intense. Damn, but it didn't help, it would just be a few minutes and I wanted to shoot another scene.

Yes, the glowing Schrammsteine you see in the photo was what I was after and I have to say it was good I kept my position there. A beautiful display of color as the stones were bathed in the red-orange light.

I used a lee 0.6 soft and lee 0.6 hard gnd here + a polarizer to emphasize the colors

Pentax 645D, 33-55mm lens

Last weekend I was finally able to photograph some decent fog in saxony switzerland. The last years the conditions were never right.

For this view I went up to Lilienstein with Holger were already many spots were taken by other photographers. Luckily the best spot (in my opinion) was still vacant.

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So here's my favourite Image from the photo trip two weeks ago to saxony switzerland. Read closely, that's not switzerland, it's in saxon in germany ;-)

It shows a twilight view from the Winterberg when soft fog was laying over the land. It was awesome standing there watching the earth breathe. After the previous days of the weekend without many good photo opportunities in the area this was one of those moments were you just stand there in awe and then have to remind yourself not to forget taking some photos ;-)

Enjoy!