In the deep alps of Austria, lies her heart, the peak of Großglockner, Austria’s highest mountain. As mountains go it might be dwarfed on paper by 58 higher peaks scattered throughout the alps but in absolute prominence relative to the surrounding terrain it stands only second to France’s Mount Blanc. In the heatwave of a […]
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What would you call four young ladies flying hundreds of meters high above the village of Sankt Gilgen in the Austrian Salzkammergut? Angels of course. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘ A Box of Angels’, 1/320 f/10 ISO100 200mm
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There is a defining moment when the natural twilight over the land begins to dim and the lights of civilization briefly reach a balance. The timing of that moment can not be determined in advance. It depends on the way the daylight is drawn away in cloud and sky and haze and the waking of […]
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Looking down on Mozart’s own town I can almost hear the music that made one of Austria’s own renowned. To the left is the Festung Hohensalzbur standing proud over the Salzburg Cathedral and the old city while the river Salzach cuts through right through Salzburg dividing old and new. Ah the sounds, look at the […]
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I’d been looking for a sunset in the western evening sky when a jagged crack of orange appeared. We watched as that blaze of zigzagging orange grew and grew and then shrank away into the grey it first emerged from. Oh well, not tonight I thought and put the camera away. Twenty minutes later after […]
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