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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-10-08 15:28:57

A quiet place for reflection (April 2025)
#LandscapePhotography #Alps #Mountains #Lake

View across a mountain lake with a completely still mirror-like surface reflecting the mountains opposite, their rock faces illuminated by the warm orange evening sun. Small patches of snow near the summits. Semi-overcast sky.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-03 10:12:56

Needing more paths in more lives to be as beautiful as this...
(This hike & experiences further up touched me like not many others have...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

A small hiking path leads through beautiful colored mountain meadows into the distance, high above the valley below. The peaks on other side of the valley have remnants of glacier tongues. Further down, green meadows and first generation larch forest growing, for the first time in thousands of years. A single small fluffy cloud in an otherwise clear blue, hazy sky.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-05 13:03:18

Navigating the herd.
(There were 170 highland cattle, sometimes just a few inches away... quite a few blocking the path with their calves and feeling agitated so we had to navigate/bypass through the talus fields higher up, giving these beauties more space...)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

A path is leading into the distance in a peaceful grassy alpine valley. Highland cattle with large twisted horns are grazing and standing near and on the path. The steep slopes on the left are covered in forest, only the top parts still catching the evening sun. Most of the valley is already in shade. Mountain peaks and blue sky in the back.

@jkohlmann@mastodon.social
2025-09-22 08:45:55

Still making my way through edits of these photos from Central Park on Labor Day Weekend: #Photography

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-29 14:15:57

Not quite Canadian Shield, but close... and at much higher elevation (~2300m)
(Another impression from the same region from yesterday's pictures, see description there...)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography

A tundra-like scene of (a section of) some enormous sloped boulders, smoothed and scraped off by thousands of years of glacial movement, now slowly overgrown by beautiful dry, orange grasses and small trees (larches), which are also slowly taking on their autumn colors. The rocks have a pinkish brown color with yellow/green lichens growing in some regions. The background is a uniform green-gray color, i.e. the color of the glacier lake with its milky water and some very, very faint reflections.

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2025-07-19 17:13:43

Me waiting for my wife today. We tried a hike today to check how well recovered her knee is. - All went very well. Except that it was a bit warm.
But the views were pretty nice.
#photography #naturephotography

A person is sitting on a wooden deck that overlooks a vast grassy field. Only their legs are visible. In the background, there is a large tree on the left side of the image. The sky above is a clear blue with fluffy white clouds scattered throughout. The scene evokes a sense of peace and tranquility, perfect for a summer day. The deck offers a serene spot to admire the natural beauty of the surrounding landscape, with mountains visible in the distance.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-27 12:08:56

My favorite blues and snow white sands near Crodon di San Candido (October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

A small, shallow high alpine lake with clear royal blue water surrounded by a talus field of white sands/pebbles, located on a high plateau with autumn colored grasses in front of the large mountain massif of Crodon di San Candido. A big fluffy cloud is nestled around the mountain peaks. Otherwise beautiful blue sky.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-26 15:03:18

Beautiful colors a week ago, yesterday everything was already white up there... 😍
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

Short video panorama from a narrow path in a high alpine glacial valley. The retracted glacier (Gepatschferner) is temporary visible in the background.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-25 15:01:57

Alone[1] enjoying the peace & quiet at the end of the valley, in the cirque below The Great Wall (Grubenkarspitze, Karwendel)...
[1] Alone, apart from some adders in the grass...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

Short video panorama of a beautiful summer mountain meadow in full bloom inside a grand cirque surrounded (semi-circle) by massive steep rock walls, and later forested slopes... A small path is leading further towards the rocks...

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-24 10:08:42

Approaching the great wall
(From a hike up a beautiful side valley in the Karwendel, September 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

A mixed group of trees in early autumn colors of different shades of yellows and greens in a wide post-glacial alpine valley with steep slopes on either side. In the background the main ridge of the Karwendel, a massive wall of rock faces several kilometers in length. Bright hazy day with pale blue/gray sky.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-21 10:03:20

King Ortler (3905m)
No picture can do it justice... For scale, note the mountain hut (Berglhütte, at 2188m) in the bottom-left corner...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

View of the Ortler mountain with its glaciated peak and prominent nortwest ridge leading down deep into the valley. A tiny speck — actually the 2-storey mountain hut (Berglhütte) — is near the (visible) bottom of that ridge, just above the tree line. Another glacier (Niederer Ortlerferner) was coming down in the valley in front of the ridge, but by now stops much further up, its tongue barely visible in the shade... Deep blue, clear sky.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-31 16:24:18

Out & about in the Bernina Range, on our way to the Labyrinth, surrounded by majestic 4000ers (meters)... A dream! 😍
(#ThrowbackThursday, preemptive #FootpathFriday and my personal hiking highlight of 2024)

A glacier side moraine with an almost imperceptible path on its ridge is leading into a sea of ice, rocks and snow in the not so far distance. The massive glacier is just a few dozen meters below from where the picture was taken. It flows & drops down from the peaks in the back (all ~4000m and around 1300m higher up for my position), forming a maze of large seracs on the way. Sunny day with blue sky and some wispy clouds.

View across a large glacier (from the same moraine & position as other photo) towards the opposite side of the valley with its 4000m peaks, hidden below a thick layer of snow and ice, some side glaciers and bare major rock faces dusted in snow. Some dried brown grass in the bottom-right corner.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-20 07:00:06

Exactly one hundred sixty days apart.
(This past Friday vs. early Feb, Raintal)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Phtography

A mountain hut in a peaceful alpine valley, surrounded by meadows with grazing cows, forest and steep rock faces rising up on the LHS. The pass at the end of the valley is visible in the distance. Sunny day with blue sky and some streaky wispy clouds.

The same mountain hut in mid winter. The valley is covered in ~50cm snow. The nearby trees and forest appear almost black. The pass at the end of the valley is the only place lit by the sun, most of valley is in the shade of the surrounding mountains. Clear day with blue sky and a few isolated clouds.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-18 15:12:21

No footpath to be seen here, but a short impression from near the goal of our morning hike today, back down before more mountain bikers, hikers and horseflies arrived, then followed by a good day's work until late...
Ps. Sound on!
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

Short 20 second video panorama of a herd of young cows (each with bell) grazing in a beautiful alpine meadow, surrounded by large & steep mountains and forested slopes rising up nearby. Bright sunny day, slightly overcast sky.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-17 10:00:06

Peace & solitude on the Kessel ridge, the rim of a large doline funnel in the Ammergau Alps.
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Panoramic photo of a narrow rocky ridge line with steep beautiful green grassy slopes, mountain passes and forest in nearby valleys. A small lake at the bottom of the doline (RHS in the photo). The rocks have a beautiful light gray color, almost the same as the overcast, cloudy and misty sky, heavy with humidity (80%+).

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-12 12:36:11

Ridges are my thing, 360 views...
(Ammergauer Alps, November 2024)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

First person video, walking on a narrow path along a ridge, looking down very steep slopes on either side, covered in dried grass and forests, rocky cliffs. Views as far as the eye can see. Late afternoon sun with beautiful warm light. Serene clear sky.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-13 16:36:58

Invisible waterfall (standing directly above it) — Engadin, Sep 2024.
#WaterfallWednesday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Photo of a glacial creek with milky beige water, full of glacial flour. The creek flows over rocks and along a large boulder covered in small pines and bushes in beautiful autumn colors. Low-hanging clouds above the forest in the background. A sliver of blue sky above.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-13 06:30:01

Majestic Trinity: Trettachspitze, Mädelegabel, Hochfrottspitze.
(Picture taken two weeks ago. If you zoom in & squint you can make out the crosses on the three summits...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Photo of the three major summits in the Allgäu High Alps with another mountain pass (hiding another valley in between) in the foreground. Some part of the rocks and the pass are in sunlight. The pass is partially rocky with some grassy patches with low-growth mountain pines. The main summits are partially shrouded in moody gray clouds. The telescopic view and depth compression lends the scene and shapes an almost abstract character (intentionally!)...

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-11 12:34:14

Do (Or Don't!) Look Down... into the beautiful valley (Rappenalptal) 😍
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Video

Short 18second, 270° video panorama of a beautiful large & deep alpine valley from around 800m above. The ground drops off steeply directly next to the narrow path (already on a slope itself). The mountains on the other side are up to ~2700m above sea level and ~1600m above the valley floor with green & rocky slopes, forest in the lower sections. A small road is leading along the last houses towards the end of the valley (the border pass is briefly visible between 12-14 seconds). Semi-cloudy bl…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-10 09:15:19

7AM, out and about on a stunning rainy morning walk between layers of fog and clouds... absolute silence...
#MorningWalk #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Black and white photo of a pre-alpine landscape of rolling hills intersected by layers of dense fog

Black and white photo looking into the Lech valley near Reutte (in the distance), from above layers of fog and low hanging clouds. Silhouettes of forest and mountains fading into the gray background.

Black and white photo of the silhouette of a hill top surrounded by dense layers of fog.

Black and white photo of the edge of a forest and a mountain meadow with fog moving up the hill, quickly enshrouding trees and everything else

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-10 08:06:33

Once upon a time in Switzerland, heading into the vast land of (rapidly declining) ice, leading through a sea of colors... "Like walking through a painting" never felt more true than on that tour...
(Alt text for more detail)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

View of a large glacial valley, with several glaciers, large seracs visible and major fully snow covered mountains (~4000m) along the entire horizon, creating an otherworldly feel. A small rocky path is leading higher up across a slowly overgrowing talus field, along the edge of the forest and covered beautiful yellow/brown grasses, blueberry plants with their leaves already turned intensely red (and still carrying yummy berries). Bright sunny day with clear blue sky. The other side of the vall…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-14 14:00:15

How many more memorials to remember and warn of the horrors of war? Lessons learned, when? Ever? The same patterns repeating, over and over...
(This memorial is to remember the Italo/Austrian "White War", part of the WW1 frontline in the Dolomites at 2300m...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

An obelisk war memorial standing on the precipice of a small grassy plateau in a high alpine setting, a deep valley immediately behind it and layers of craggy mountain ridges behind. It's close to sunset and only some of the peaks are illuminated by the sun. Layers of cloud/fog forming.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-22 13:26:13

From pass to pass...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Alps

View of a mountain and nearby pass from a narrow & steep smaller ridge. The main peak is semi-shrouded in clouds and has large rugged rock faces reaching down into the valley on the right. Lush green grassy slopes are leading down from the pass. Small isolated patches of trees .

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-18 14:52:39

After a weekend of coding, this is my #MountainMonday today... 🥰
#LandscapePhotography #Alps #Hiking

View of a high alpine mountain pass with lush meadows in full bloom (incl. aconite) and looking towards another pass and mountain peak in the (not so far) distance. Clouds are forming around the peaks.

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