Some photos taken near Bizau, Austria.
This is a very personal, completely handmade Totoro I got for Christmas today. It is meant to be used as a travel pillow and to follow me wherever I go.
Isn’t it nice? I will always keep it close.
The Pfänder is the closest mountain at Lake Constance, close to Lochau and Bregenz, Austria. After work I took a spin to the top, which took me 1:20h and down, which took 20 min. I was rewarded with a nice sunset and a clear, starry sky on the way home.

The Katamaran on Lake Constance

At the lake the other day…
I recently witnessed an interesting sunset from Weingarten, where the setting sun caused a bright, vertical light streak into the sky. This is not an artifact of the camera but an effect from haze and clouds.
An unordinary sunset, taken at Lake Constance, Germany, using a simple Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone camera.
On 12th August, 2011, I cought this photo of a falling star during the Perseids. Shooting took place at the Lake Constance with a normal Canon Powershot A640, set to a shutter time of only 10 seconds. Out of 120 shots, one picture kept this rare moment. What are the odds for that?