If I counted right, it's the seventh round in the #AlphabetHunt challenge of Barbara @barbara-orenya and her Feel Good Community: illustrate 6 words (or concepts) starting with the letter of the week.
Now, let's begin with the first photo of a sleepy Grasshopper...
Great Green Bush Cricket
Of course, you may call this little guy a Grasshopper, but it is the Nymph of a Great Green Bush Cricket - Tettigonia viridissima.
A few weeks ago I was on a morning walk at the reservoir when I spotted this little grasshopper on the still closed dandelion blossom. The grasshopper was just about to wake up, but didn't move so that I could get a decent sharp macro shot it.
I thought today I could share some snapshots from my parents' Garden with you. It is more a lawn with some flower areas, but there's also a little Greenhouse with tomatoes and a small garden with zucchini,cucumbers, currants and a few more vegetables and fruits.
This cabin has grown from a tiny Garden shed to a little house over the past 30 years or so.
In the beginning of January this year I drove over the Soboth Pass in the east of Carinthia, at border to our neighbor state Styria, where Arnold Schwarzenegger is at home. Still in Carinthia I stopped at a viewpoint, from which I saw a part of the Austrian Air defense system, the Goldhaube Radar System on the Speikkogel mountain.
The snow was illuminated beautifully pink by the morning sun and so I thought I could try my 150-600mm Sigma Supertelezoom lens. It was a bit windy and still too dark, but I'm happy with the photos, because the distance to these buildings was about 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) as the crow flies.
On the same morning when I took the above photos I drove on a different road back home and so I could take some photos of the Castle ruin Griffen in the village of the same name.
I believe the mountain range in the background must be the Obir mountain range, the highest mountain range in the North Karawanks with its highest peak, the Hochobir (2,139 m / 7,017.7 ft).
I haven't posted any photos of the beautiful emerald green Soča river in Slovenia for quite a while, and I still haven't been there since the borders are open again. So I had to search for some photos of the Great Soča Gorge, which I haven't posted before.
I took these photos in November 2019 after a few rainy days. If it had rained more there would have been more little streams flowing and falling into the river from both sides of the gorge.
Finally the word Growth came into my mind and I remembered the following two photos.
I have taken the first photo a few weeks ago at the Drau reservoir and I have no idea what the name of this plant is, but these fresh leaves looked quite interesting to me.
I wanted to make a focus stacked image, but at home it turned out that I had taken too less photos or didn't seem to have captured all of the focus levels. Below you can see the result with quite a few blurry areas.
On my forest walk last weekend I have seen this little baby tree which has grown on a rotten and mossy tree trunk. Of course, I photographed it, because you never know when you might need a photo of a little tree 😉
So, that was it for today - 6 words starting with G and I am fully aware, that the word Green dominates my post, but I do hope you like my photos anyway 😊
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All photos were shot with the Canon EOS R and one of these lenses: Canon RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM, Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L IS II USM, Canon EF 16-35mm 1:4 L IS USM, Canon EF 50mm 1:1.8 L STM, SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM, SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM C.
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