Hike to the three linden trees - Germany
Gooooood Day, World!
As mentioned in my last post - I'm now a free man who does not have to work in a 9-5 office job anymore. After saving up all my money for the last decade I have now time to finally focus on photography and just do what I love the most.
Yesterday morning I came back to Germany from my 6 year stay in Thailand. Even it's pretty cold, I already fell in love again with the stunning mountains which surround my hometown. Not to even mention the incredible fresh air I can breath here!
| Camera | Lens | Aperture | ISO | Shutter S. | Focal L. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sony A7R V | Sony 24-70mm F.2.8 GII | F9 | 125 | 1/160 | 24 mm |
Coming back with time and a lot of motivation I did my first hike today morning. My destination target was the area of the "Three Linden" which are 3 very old and quite famous trees in our hometown.
| Camera | Lens | Aperture | ISO | Shutter S. | Focal L. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sony A7R V | Sony 24-70mm F.2.8 GII | F6.3 | 125 | 1/600 | 24 mm |
Listening to some chilled piano music on my Ear-Phones, having a stunning misty but sunny sunrise it was really a perfect day to start the 1.5 hour trip to the famous trees. Even I had an average temperature of 35 C + in the past years I enjoyed the cozzy 4 C we had here.
| Camera | Lens | Aperture | ISO | Shutter S. | Focal L. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sony A7R V | Sony 24-70mm F.2.8 GII | F6.3 | 125 | 1/1600 | 32 mm |
As the hike isn't difficult at all, I've used quite a lot of opportunities to test my new Sony A7r V with its 24-70 lens. Having these incredible light conditions there wasn't really a lot I could do wrong :))
| Camera | Lens | Aperture | ISO | Shutter S. | Focal L. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sony A7R V | Sony 24-70mm F.2.8 GII | F6.3 | 125 | 1/500 | 24 mm |
Not only was it the first time hiking for me in a long time, I also saw and held some snow again! God.. How much did I miss this feeling of ice cold snow in my hands! Especially when you hike in a fast pace there is nothing better than cooling your self down with a piece of snow!
| Camera | Lens | Aperture | ISO | Shutter S. | Focal L. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sony A7R V | Sony 24-70mm F.2.8 GII | F6.3 | 125 | 1/600 | 24 mm |
And there they were - The famous 3 "Linden Trees" - The funny thing is, I cant really tell much about them and why they are famous in our region. The internet tells almost nothing about them and when ever I ask someone - Sure, they know them. But why and what nobody can answer :))
| Camera | Lens | Aperture | ISO | Shutter S. | Focal L. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sony A7R V | Sony 24-70mm F.2.8 GII | F9 | 125 | 1/125 | 24 mm |
The thing I can say for sure is that this place really has something magical on it. On the peak of the tree hill you can see our entire mountain village covered in beautiful mist. Not to even mention on how quiet and peaceful it is up there.
| Camera | Lens | Aperture | ISO | Shutter S. | Focal L. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sony A7R V | Sony 24-70mm F.2.8 GII | F7.1 | 125 | 1/400 | 24 mm |
Walking around, drinking some fresh mountain water, breathing the fresh air really made me calm down from all the years I've been living in a busy and very high polluted city.
Even my legs might be quite sore tomorrow I'm already planing my next trips around my hometown region and as promised I'm going to share all of these trips with you guys!
Stay tuned and thanks for joining me on this little virtual tour around my hometown mountains :)
Best,
Chris
Awesome shots. I'm sure it's bittersweet... but now, it will be awesome to focus on your photography! Glad to see you here.
Cheers @castleberry ! And hell yeah - It's about time doing fun activities again! :))
Congratulations on your big change and welcome back in Europe!
Great photos, it looks like it was a good move to focus on photography 🙂
Hey @delishtreats - Nice to hear from you! I hope you are doing well :))
Yeah it really was time for some change! I appreciate your comment!
Amazing captures. Welcome back. Long time no see!(or you've been doing photofeed? I'm not sure if that's you😅)
Enjoy the crisp mountain air and refreshing snow.:)
Ohh thanks a lot, Donica! And yes, its me, Mr.Photofeed haha. As my old office job didn't leave me any free time in the past years I only focused on PhotoFeed but now, as a free person, I finally have time to take pictures myself again and post them on my blog. Thank you! :))
Just read your last post, congrats Mr. freeman!😃 That sounds so exciting, and I'm sure you will have so many new adventures and photo ops, prost!🍻 Are you going to do travel videos too?
Ha, thank you!! I think so too - It's going to be a fun adventure! Well, I might include videos in my future travel blogs but for vlogging videos I'm probably to much introverted haha :D But idk, maybe I can work on that :D - Prost! :))
Haha, same here. I don't like talking to a screen, and keep on postponing working on that.😆
Great shoots!!!!
Thank you!! :))