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It was on vacation in Tuscany. We were sitting on a staircase and enjoyed the sun as my friend suddenly said: "Look at the clouds!" They were ... colorful. I quickly grabbed the camera (which is on holiday so thank God always with me) and shot many many photos. After a few minutes the clouds were white again. I was completely intrigued and researched at home what this phenomenon was. It must have to do with small ice crystals in the clouds. Obviously, this phenomenon rarely observed and then in more northern areas. After that I saw one or two times rainbow clouds in Germany, but never in such an extreme way.

In Iceland, there was an incredible amount of it. QUIET. The photo was taken in the West Fjords. There it is breathtakingly beautiful and stunningly quiet. You drive by rental car along a fjord, after that comes a fjord, followed by a fjord and then ... a fjord. Only sometimes you pass a lonely house or another car. When I look at the picture I would like to jump in and feel the peace there again. Far away from stress.

I love the Art Nouveau style. Whenever I'm in Berlin to visit my aunt, I admire the old staircase. This time I finally took a picture. I processed it as HDR, because in the normal exposure, the beauty somehow did not come to bear. Do you think it needs a black frame?

It was a sunny and warm day and the frogs in the pond were croaking. I cropped this picture because I couldn´t get closer without wet feet. Furthermore I put a texture on the picture and a frame, but the reflected clouds in the frogs eye are real. BEAUTIFUL LIFE!

This is my irish friends daughter at the age of two weeks. She was SO tiny and delicate. I could sit hours next to her only watching her sleep. It is so peaceful to look at a baby don´t you think? No one has hurt it yet.

During my training I have lived some time in Aachen. My apartment there was very close to the zoo, so I've always made ​​my evening walks (thanks to an annual pass) by the zoo. The Mallards became good friends of mine. I really miss the proximity to the zoo.

"Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin" (I still have a suitcase in Berlin) is a song from Marlene Dietrich. This suitcases are stacked in the German Museum of Technology in Berlin at the section with the big old steam locomotives. I processed them in HDR and put a simple black frame around them.

Dear Friends, I´m back from Berlin now and it is time for the next letter. As I thought about words with the letter K I found many german words. If you translate them in English ... they are words with the letter C. (Katze/Cat, Kuchen/Cake ...) So my K is another older picture from South Korea. It was taken in a Temple in the City Seoul. One thing is new: It is my first try with a texture :-) Happy Easter to you!

Wirklich reich ist, wer mehr Träume in seiner Seele hat, als die Realität zerstören kann. (Hans Kruppa) "He who is really rich has more dreams in his soul than reality can destroy" (Hans Kruppa) Many thanks to phil anker for translating

This yellow crab spider was sitting so pretty on the blue flower. When I looked up at home to what it was for a spider, I was amazed: This spider can change color "at will". If you want to learn more about it, look here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misumena_vatia

This image not only looks as if it was old. It is old. I took this ten years ago in Brazil. I was so fascinated by hummingbirds, but only had a small compact camera with me. It was impossible to catch one in flight. For this photo I climbed on a tree. Unfortunately, I did not notice (until too late) that it was full of Brazilian ants ... Guys, I am always full of admiration for your hummingbird photos. Be happy that you have these birds, here they do not exist unfortunately.

My godchild had his 7th birthday last week and I really enjoyed the day. Whenever a lot is going on in the house tomcat Tonic lies down in the middle between. Even the raging children do not disturb him :-D

This candle burnt on the wedding of my friends Johannes and Eva. It was a single one on the candlestick you can see here . "Fire and Flame" (Feuer und Flamme) is a german quote for "being enthusiastic of something". I´m enthusiastic of taking photos and watching photos on ipernity and talking about photos with my friends here.

A frog for my friend Janet who posted a really fabulous froggy for the letter F. Enjoy here.

One week ago I stopped on my way to work beside the street and watched this beautiful sunrise behind the morning mist. In front of my car a few rabbits crossed the field. What a wonderful morning!

It makes so much fun to make the A-Z project together with Janet . This time we had the same idea for D ... The vines are ready to cast out. The reflection in the drops are also vines.

Seen in the Guinness Store House in Dublin.

In the South Korean subway.