Liquid of life by MartinKrajczy

Liquid of life in the Namib desert. We did follow this thunderstorm for a few hours . The rain fall was always on our left hand side. It was great to observe it moving through the desert building a stripe of grass. After a few hours we nearly had to drive through… tough winds were coming up out of nothing and the silence of the hot desert during afternoon suddenly was gone. It was just awesome to observe the nature forces at work. Since that i know why you drive for hours through a dry landscape with no animals and suddenly there are hundreds of them…. such a thunderstorm happend exactly there 2-3 weeks ago…a miracle of life — Re-mastered version of a shot taken in March this year in the Namib desert

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Foggy Day by danielwaschnig

By Daniel Waschnig Photography (http://ift.tt/192kduu)

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Golden Magic by MartinKrajczy

In life everybody tells you not to look back…look forward. This is different in photography. When i was driving up the first hills after Gulfoss in Iceland i saw some golden glow in the mirror of my car. So i stopped and looked back. It was a rainy day and out of nothing there were some holes in the clouds which let the sun come through . It was an unbelievable light so it took the time to do some shots. It was well invested because a few kilometers later i had to stop my tour and turn back as the road in the highlands was closed. On the right hand side of the picture you see some mist. But it is not the rain. It is the mist of Gulfoss. Adds another dimension to this waterfall if you can see the mist from so far away.

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Magical storm by MartinKrajczy

Panorama frame (out of eight single frames) – The flanking bench of the oldest desert in this world. At this place you are roughly 700-800 meters above the desert. The rain storms above this place very often ends at this place and the rain doesn´t reach the desert which you can see already. It is always a spectacular view from this place so each time possible we stop by. It is a private farm so we have to ask for access or we stay there over night. Can you imagine that the are in the lower third of the frame does belong to this farm. And it is just the northern end of the farm … a very small part of it. These dimensions are unbelievable for a guy like myself coming from Germany. But that is the reason why i like Namibia…space, space, space and silence, silence, silence.

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Desert rain by MartinKrajczy

A rain storm in the desert is always something special. It is not happening very often. Sometimes there are years in between two rain showers at the same place in the desert. We drove through this rain storm. When we were ahead of it we stopped on a scenic place where we could look back and already see the next valley with an epidemic stream and a sand storm in it. The light was awesome with the dark black / blue clouds of the rain and the sun breaking through . We came along the small pathway you see in the frame. It is a tough way and you can not drive fast as there are so many rocks and holes that you jump in the car all the way along. There are only a few trees which survive in such a surreal landscape and therefore you do not see too much wildlife animals. But you can experience the forces of mother nature in the best possible way in such regions. You know afterwards who calls the shots.

This shot is taken one day after we had the luck to observe the five musceteers – five young mal lions living in the Namib desert. If you want to get an impression about this landscape just watch the movie about these five lions which the TV station in Austria (ORD2) did show on Tuesday this week. It is available online for another five days (until 12th of October) Just follow this link – an incredible nature documentation.
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*the pledge* by Fotoarte

i love the sun & i love the rain

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*back to the boat* by Fotoarte

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*rainy sunset* by Fotoarte

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*nature´s surprise* by Fotoarte

…get in and step in to the gate of natural mystic…

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Green magic by MartinKrajczy

I found this enchanting waterfall on my last Iceland tour. A real beauty which i will visit again for sure. It was a windy and rainy day so it was tough to shot a pano of this waterfall. A single picture would not be the right choice to show the beauty of the complete mountain scene. This frame is a pano out of 4 single pictures. The wet conditions are great for the greens which are really great in Iceland in these rainy conditions and are the eye catcher beside the waterfall. As green is the major color it fits with my style of photography there i prefer reduction of colors and structures in one frame. So the eye of the beholder is getting a clear focus point in the frame fast.

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