full moon night landscape 2013-07-26

The full moon almost turns night into day. Crickets chirp, and besides the vague noise of traffic from the nearby highway there is peaceful silence. Smell of wet grain lies in the air, wet due to the heavy rainfall last afternoon. Humidity is high and fog over the Neckar valley.

full moon over the fields, notice the fog over Neckar valley to the right

Big Dipper (asterism) over a cabin

fields around Walddorf 2013-07-20

view of Walddorf

oat field

cloud 2013-07-14

This cloud looks as if i slipped with the smudge-tool when working on the picture... but that's not the case, the cloud really stretched over almost the full sky:

rainbow 2013-06-27

rain and 13 °C - not a pleasant weather in June... however, that rainbow compensates for it:

rainbow over Walddorf (my hometown)

rainbow detail

fading rainbow over Altenriet

view of Hohenneuffen 2013-05-07

view of the castle ruins of Hohenneuffen (atop the hill in the center) from Dörnach (a neighbour village of my home village). In front of the hill the village Grafenberg can be seen, in front of this some flowering fruit trees alongside the Neckar valley. To the right is Jusi mountain.

Another view of Hohenneuffen and Grafenberg through the flowers of an apple tree.