Hohenzollern castle at sunrise 2015-11-11

Hohenzollern castle at dawn

Hohenzollern castle at dawn

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Hohenzollern castle at sunrise

Hohenzollern castle in the morning light

Hohenzollern castle in the morning light

Hohenzollern in focus camera in focus
EOS 700D on a tripod in front of the Hohenzollern castle.

view from Raichberg tower in the morning 2015-02-12

Having taken pictures from the Zeller Horn at night, I was on the way back to the parking lot when I saw something like clouds above the horizon. Clouds? Well, not quite, it appears as if I was too unbelieving so it took me a second look until I realized those "clouds" were actually the Alps in 150 km distance which can be seen from here on clear days. I took the shortest way through the snow-covered landscape to reach the Raichberg tower before sunrise to enjoy the view from there:

View to the east.

View to the northeast: Roßberg (17 km distance).

View to the north.

View to the west with Black Forest at the horizon.

view of the Alps

labels ON labels OFF There are different variants of this image. Move the cursor over the correspondent boxes to display them.View of the Alps before sunrise.

View of Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain, in 178 km distance.

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After sunrise, the mountain range of the Alps appears violet instead of blue.

Hohenzollern at sunrise in winter 2015-02-12

Albtrauf (edge of the Schwäbische Alb), Feldberg (the highest mountain in the Black Forest) at the horizon (roughly in the middle).

Hohenzollern at sunrise 2014-06-07

View of Hohenzollern from Zeller Horn at sunrise.

Hohenzollern castle in the light of the rising sun.