Pigeon Close-Up


Today I did grab the photo gear again and went outside to take more photos. It will probably take months to upload all the photos of the first shooting but I went outside for the second big shooting anyway. I have a lot of fun to take photos with the new camera and it doesn’t really matter when I upload all the images, it’s cool that the photo collection is growing, although I will run out of hard drive space very soon, but I might buy an additional hard drive then. Today I shot all kind of stuff, but also … Continue reading Pigeon Close-Up

Natrix natrix


We found a grass snake in our garden pond yesterday. This is a non-venomous snake you can find here in Germany, generally in Europe from Scandinavia to southern Italy but I learned that you can find them in the Middle East and northwestern Africa as well. The binomial name is “Natrix natrix”, the English name is grass snake but sometimes also called water snake or ringed snake, the last name is similar to the German name, because we call this snake Ringelnatter and that means ringed snake. The German name comes from the necklace pattern behind the head. The snake … Continue reading Natrix natrix

Red Ball, Red Background


I also do now enjoy to take photos of objects. I took a photo of the red ball that we use to play with Billy, the dog of my mother. I will definitely take more photos of objects, because this is fun too and you never know if you need some of the photos for related articles or so. I was attracted by the red colour when I saw the red ball on the red bench. Continue reading Red Ball, Red Background