Inside the World’s Deepest Oil Lake 🇹🇹

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Birka Green

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Fun fact about Rainbow Mountain Peru. Its striking colors are a result of mineral deposits from erosion which took place over millions of years. #NaturalWonder #ColorfulLands #roamfit Image Credit:@a2asafaris on instagram

A patch of green and splashes of red and white.

Taken with my Canon 5DsR and Sigma Art 24–70 in Surea, between Gilze and Oosterhout — a gray day, yet the forest was alive with colour and quiet stories. On a bed of moss and fallen leaves stood a single Amanita muscaria — the fly agaric — but not as we usually know it. Its brilliant red cap was covered in a delicate white layer that resembled a dusting of snow. Only later did I realize: this wasn’t weather, but another fungus growing upon it. A fungus infecting a fungus — a rare and fascinating encounter.

In mycology, such infections occur when parasitic species like Hypomyces invade the fruiting body of another mushroom, spreading their hyphae through its tissues. They slowly consume the host’s nutrients, altering its colour, texture, and even shape. This quiet struggle plays out unseen, yet it’s part of the forest’s endless cycle of decay and renewal — nothing in nature is truly wasted.

I crouched low in the moss to capture it, trying to show not just a mushroom, but a story of resilience, interdependence, and the hidden wars of the microscopic world.

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The Language of Light and Leaf

Sometimes, beauty hides in the smallest and simplest things — like the way sunlight passes through a single leaf. During my walk in Surea, I noticed how the low morning sun lit the trees from behind, turning their leaves into glowing jewels of orange, yellow, and green. I raised my Canon 7D Mark II with the Sigma 100–400mm lens and focused on a single leaf, backlit by the warm sunlight.

But what you see here isn’t just colour — it’s chemistry in motion. When autumn arrives and the days grow shorter, trees start reclaiming the nutrients stored in chlorophyll — the pigment that gives leaves their green colour and fuels photosynthesis. As chlorophyll breaks down, other pigments emerge: carotenoids, responsible for yellows and oranges, and anthocyanins, which add red and purple tones. These pigments have been there all along — just hidden behind the green curtain of summer.

So, in a way, autumn is nature’s gentle way of revealing what’s always been there, waiting for the right light to be seen. Through my lens, it’s a reminder that endings can be beautiful too.

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Giant's Causeway at Sunrise. #giantscauseway #sunrise #irelandtravel #northernireland #causewaycoast #uniquelandscape #geology #basaltcolumns #naturalwonder #dramaticscenery #sunriselovers #coastalliving #traveldestinations #wanderlust #smartphonephotography #photography

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Orange Rosehip

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Auch wenn gerade viele Monde die Runde machen, möchte ich doch noch eine Variante ergänzen.

Gestern Abend haben wir unser Abendessen eingepackt und uns auf ein ruhiges und vor allem lichtarmes Fleckchen begeben. Das Essen konnten wir beim Sonnenuntergang genießen, dessen Ende aber direkt die "Arbeit" einläutete.

Zunächst war ich etwas enttäuscht, denn es war sehr bewölkt und kein Mond zu sehen. Naja, zumindest ein Abendessen "with a view", wie meine Frau gerne sagt. Doch dann die Überraschung. Binnen Minuten ziehen die Wolken ab und wir sehen einen sternenklaren Himmel mit einem roten Mond. Für mich ein absolutes Traumfoto.
Plankenfels, Bayern Deutschland


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