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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-23 12:37:44

Do(n't) look down...
(View down into Oytal from a precarious section of the ridge path near Laufbacher Eck & Schneck, late October 2021)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

View of the upper section of Oytal and surrounding majestic mountains, as seen from a narrow hiking path near the ridge, a 1000 meters above the valley. Super steep grassy cliffs and slopes (in autumn colors) dropping down directly next to the path. Another small path winding up in the valley to the cirque in the distance. Some of these mountains there already dusted with snow.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-21 20:31:46

Meeting the sublime
(A brief moment when the heavens briefly opened first for light, then for epic rain showers... Above Kandersteg, 2019)
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

B&W photo of a mountain landscape in the Swiss Alps, with dramatic clouds forming and shafts of light reaching down into the deep valley. The silhouettes of trees in the foreground.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-21 13:49:37

As I said previously, I do, do ❤️ ridges... This was six days ago, on almost the last day of autumn (meanwhile it's all white)...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Hiking

First person video of me walking a narrow path along a ridge with steep drops on either side, but one side more open, providing vast views over the surrounding landscape (and esp. the foothills north of the Ammergau Alps). The beautiful warm autumn afternoon sun makes the dried grasses appear almost golden... Bright blue sky

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-21 08:00:00

A Golden Morning At Piz Beverin.
(Luckily, the dense fog was just starting to lift when we arrived, revealing the silent spectacle beyond and the majestic peak...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Cinematic wide-format view of a wintry snow covered mountain massif with its highest peak (Piz Beverin, 2998m) on the right side. The mountain is illuminated by golden morning light, some of the rocks glowing bright orange. In front are still partially dense low hanging clouds (formerly fog banks), but dispersing quickly and some of them with a faint pink tone. Below and further in the front, the silhouette of dense forest, still completely in deep shade. Bright blue sky.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-20 08:00:02

Early morning view from the supermarket carpark...
(Imst, October 2025)
#LandscapePhotography #Alps #Mountains

A mountain peak in rusty red/brown colors from the early morning alpen glow (and the general impact of October) against a pale beige sky and behind layers of dark gray clouds...

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-19 16:03:09

Fave hike of 2025... Ahh memories... Only 5 weeks ago, but already feels like a lifetime ago...
#WildWednesday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

A beautiful river canyon in an alpine landscape is leading into the distance toward large barren mountains with snow capped peaks. Mixed forest (Swiss pines, larches, birches...) on the right side of the canyon, steep yellow/brown grassy slopes on the left. Hazy sky.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-18 19:13:37

Frozen forest
(From tonight's evening walk in the local woods...)
#SilentSunday #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography

B&W photo of a small dark footpath in the dense forest leading into the distance. The ground is frozen and snowfree, but all the tree branches are covered in a layer of frost, as if dipped in thick white paint.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-14 08:45:28

Alpenglühen in the Ammergau Alps
(Hochplatte, Branderschrofen, February 2024)
#WildWednesday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

A long snowy mountain ridge (Hochplatte) and nearby peaks in the Ammergau Alps illuminated by the setting sun, glowing bright red/orange. The summit cross on the peak on the right (Branderschrofen) is glistening brightly. It's a freezing winter day and the steep lower slopes (partially forested) in the foreground are already in the shade (deep blueish light), only some cliffs are still reflecting the sun. Uniform gray clear sky.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-14 10:30:10

Almost reached the top!
(A wonderfully wild path along the cliff edge and glorious evening light on the way to Teufelstättkopf, with a view of the Wetterstein massif and Zugspitze in the distance...)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

High contrast black and white photo of a narrow path along the edge of a rocky cliff falling off vertically less than a meter away on the right. Steep slopes with dwarf mountain pines on the left handside, some of the trees in the foreground catching the evening sun. Layers of tall mountains in the distance (Zugspitze/Wetterstein in the far back)

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-12 16:18:47

Reflective pause in Cirque de Troumouse, Pyrenees (just too grand to photograph)...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

A small lake/pond in a high alpine landscape of only grasses and talus fields visible. The shallow water in the lake is very dark and reflecting some of the nearby mountain peaks of the surrounding 270 degree cirque. The framing of the image is such that only the reflection of the peaks and some of the clouds are visible.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-11 07:30:06

The Land of Via Claudia Augusta
(Pre-sunset light on New Year's eve, overlooking a small part of the northern Alps, a view which I imagine was already enjoyed by the Romans who had built a settlement on this hill in 13AD...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Wide-format photo of a beautiful snowy winter landscape of the foothills and peaks of the northern Alps near Füssen. The freezing temperatures and the setting sun is making the hazy sky glow orange/pink with cold blueish light in the lower region in the foreground. Partially snow-covered forest and fields with small wooden huts.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-09 10:33:01

Alone into the rocks: Tunnel walk and traces of glacial plucking at 2200m
(And yes, the colors really were that stunning...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

View of a small tunnel entrance (2-3 meters wide) into a glacially eroded colorful rock face consisting of slightly curved strata of different minerals and colors ranging from blueish-green grays to rusty orange. The higher up sections show signs of glacial plucking and trigger the imagination how that place must have looked filled with ice... A tall mountain peak in the far back. Clear, deep blue sky.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-09 14:04:07

Crossing over, near Rossgundscharte.
(Picture from June 2025. Ahead lies the upper end of Rappenalptal, Germany's southernmost valley, and the Lechtal Alps in Tyrol further in the distance)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

Black and white wide-format view of a narrow footpath near a mountain pass, going past a steep craggy cliff, before dropping a few hundred meters down (out of view). Far views into the mountains on the opposite side of the valley and beyond. An ancient gigantic side moraine on the opposite side of the valley... Semi cloudy sky.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-07 13:50:36

On the way to Gepatschferner, September 2025... How I miss this place!
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

A small path leading through a high alpine tundra landscape, with colorful early autumn vegetation and rocks ranging in color from red/orange, dark purples and cold grays (in the background). Only a handful of small trees (larches) scattered here and there. Clear blue sky with some cloud shadows.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-05 08:45:07

From yesterday's early morning walk...
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #MorningWalk

Photo of lake in a mixed autumnal forest. A thin layer of fog is floating in the shade near the edge of the lake, a small wooden hunter's cabin nearby. Most of the trees are already bare/leafless. Only a single tree with bright yellow leaves in the background.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-03 23:01:34

Frozen silence.
(Amazing atmosphere in this cold blue-purple light & halo near sunset and a crispy -11℃ [12℉] temperature... The only sounds were from the biting wind and the crunch of our steps on frozen ground)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

An island of heavily frost-encrusted trees near the edge of a forest with rolling hills of pasture in the foreground. Cold blue-purple light near sunset. There's a faint pinkish glow/halo in the overcast sky around the main group of trees. The entire scene is in pastel-like colors...

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-31 20:01:59

The last light of 2025....
(...is giving me big hopes for 2026, against all odds!)
#LandscapePhotography #Sunset #Alps

The silhouette of a group of spruce trees against an intensely golden sky above the northern Alps in the background. The sun itself is partially visible through the trees, light shafts through the low haze.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-30 08:15:03

No Fishing on this morning walk...
(From a beautiful and positively frozen Sunday AM in late 2022... I shared those images already back then, but hey...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

A small narrow pier fully covered in snow, in a completely frozen over lake in the woods. Snow covered branches reaching in from all sides, providing a nice framing. The cold bright light perfectly matches the peaceful frozen mood of this calm morning.

The golden glow of the early morning sun is breaking through the bare trees on a hill slope in a wintry beech forest. A dense patch of young trees, still with their dry rusty leaves on. They're almost fully snow covered near the ground, the sun just partially reaching them. Vanilla sky.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-29 08:00:03

Morning walk with a mood befitting the end of the year...
#MorningWalk #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography

B&W photo of a moody, foggy and flat winter landscape with fields and frozen plants/trees covered in hoarfrost. On the right edge of the image is a small, desolate wooden shed with moss covered roof standing by a little creek. Layers of isolated trees and forest disappearing into the fog in the background.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-28 08:00:01

Giants shrouded in mystery, just like the year ahead...
(Also, it's the last #SilentSunday of this year, hope you enjoyed my selection of 52 images... Analog & digital prints will be available soon!)
#LandscapePhotography

B&W photo of a majestic multi-layered mountain massif with large rock formations shrouded in thick white clouds forming all around it. A large deep canyon is running up towards the tallest rock towers on the left. Some of the steep lower slopes on the right are covered in dense forest.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-28 14:00:09

So close, yet still so far...
(Standing roughly where the Hintereisferner glacier reached to in 1850. From here it's another 20 mins to the Hochjoch Hospiz at 2413m... where I was the only soul there that day, enjoying true edge of the world vibes. Wonderful!)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

A small path is leading through lush golden yellow/brown grassy slopes in an otherwise empty looking landscape towards an old 4-floor mountain hut at the horizon, the Hochjoch Hospiz (built 1927). Behind the hut a section of another larger mountain is visible. Semi-overcast pale blue sky.

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