FIRST PLACE WINNER - Nature: Trees (AMATEUR)
white beauty
Photo © Judith Kuhn
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Overnight it had snowed, even for the day more snow showers were announced. Everything indicated that the Black Forest would turn into a winter wonderland. On the morning drive towards Schauinsland, however, disillusionment soon spread: in the valleys hardly any snow, even on the Feldberg the firs were green (even if there was a lot of snow otherwise). Several times I thought about turning around and going home. Then, just two kilometers from the finish: the first white trees. The wind drove the clouds against the mountain, over night a layer of frost several centimeters thick had formed and through the dense clouds the trees could be wonderfully cleared. The whole area was tone on tone ...
I started with photography at the age of about 12 years with a very cheap analog compact camera followed by a better analog model from Braun. After some years without taking pictures I got my first analog SLR camera - a Minolta XG9 - from my father. I learned about photography in an autodidactic way and soon I changed from negative prints to diapositives. In 2007 I bought my first DSLR camera, a Canon EOS 350D followed by a Canon EOS 500D and the Canon EOS 70D which I use today. My main subject is the landscape photography, mostly in the italian and swiss alps but I try to take pictures of animals and plants also...
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Overnight it had snowed, even for the day more snow showers were announced. Everything indicated that the Black Forest would turn into a winter wonderland. On the morning drive towards Schauinsland, however, disillusionment soon spread: in the valleys hardly any snow, even on the Feldberg the firs were green (even if there was a lot of snow otherwise). Several times I thought about turning around and going home. Then, just two kilometers from the finish: the first white trees. The wind drove the clouds against the mountain, over night a layer of frost several centimeters thick had formed and through the dense clouds the trees could be wonderfully cleared. The whole area was tone on tone ...
About author:
I was born in 1974 in Ebingen (Germany) and grew up in Sigmaringen, where I finished school in 1994. Afterwards I went to the university in Stuttgart where I studied architecture. I had jobs in different firms and meanwhile I live in the small town Immenstaad at the Lake Constance.I started with photography at the age of about 12 years with a very cheap analog compact camera followed by a better analog model from Braun. After some years without taking pictures I got my first analog SLR camera - a Minolta XG9 - from my father. I learned about photography in an autodidactic way and soon I changed from negative prints to diapositives. In 2007 I bought my first DSLR camera, a Canon EOS 350D followed by a Canon EOS 500D and the Canon EOS 70D which I use today. My main subject is the landscape photography, mostly in the italian and swiss alps but I try to take pictures of animals and plants also...
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