Mama’s Garden

Once again I ventured into Mum’s garden. It’s amazing what you can capture if you’re just looking closely enough. There are stunning motives everywhere. Flowers in bloom, withered flowers in the back light, beetles in rosemary, climbing wasps, cob webs and so on:

My favourites, though, are leaves with raindrops. A little dark mood gives the images an aristocratic elegance. Especially for the one with the hydrangea (Mum’s favourite flowers), which to me is the best photography in this post. Do you agree?

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I Heart Harz

Every now and then I need to escape the urban hustle of the city (well, as far as you can find that in Brunswick) and dive into the woods of the Harz mountains. The monoculture of fast growing pine trees has faced a major decline due to a combination of storms, droughts and pests in recent years. For a while the forest offered a sad and depressing view of dry and dead trees. However, new trees are emerging between the withered tree trunks, slowly but surely. The forest is now largely left to its own natural progression resulting in a more divers species composition with a much larger portion of deciduous trees. This plant community is also thought to be better adapted to different pressures by pests and climate changes. Additionally the expansive clearings offer habitat for a multitude of often threatened plant and animal species.

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