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Actually, I wanted to make a post today, complaining about much work and no time and so on, but then I read @papilloncharity's post "A Sunday of dark and light" ...

I have nothing to complain - Johann Piber

I have nothing to complain

... and after reading Zac Smith's post I decided that I have nothing to complain about.

Zac shows us photos of his beautiful home country South Africa where they suffer from poverty and a couple of power cuts every single day. But does he complain? No, he doesn't. He helps the poor and takes the power cuts as opportunity to get out and enjoy what Mother Nature has to offer, no matter if the sun is shining or if it rains.

A Frozen Waterfall in the Lindlingalm in Salzburg - Austria - Johann Piber

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The Lindlingalm is an area at the end of the Glemmtal / Glemm Valley where the huge and well known ski area Saalbach-Hinterglemm is. Sometimes you can see ice climbers on this waterfall.

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In the past weeks I have had a lot to do at work and the weekends were reserved for family businesses. In the weeks and months to come it will be the same, at least at work. So, I didn't have much time to get out for photography and if I did get out, the weather wasn't the best most times.

Kind of a Sunrise in Saalbach-Hinterglemm - Salzburg - Austria - Johann Piber

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First it was totally cloudy so I actually wanted to go back to the house but then I saw some colors in the sky and the sunrise got quite nice after the clouds cleared a bit. So it was worth getting up before the others and hike up the mountain behind the house.

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The time when Winter ends and Spring arrives is mostly dull and gray and especially in the past years I believe the transitional period between Winter and Spring takes longer and so we live longer in this gray and sad environment before the colours and fresh smells arrive again.

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Actually, I haven't been in the mood to make a post after long and exhausting days at work and especially after a 24-hour shift from Saturday till this Sunday morning. But the weatherman was wrong and we got a lovely sunny and warm Spring day in Winter, and so I am sitting in my van right at the lake while typing these words after reading Zac's post.

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The photos in this post are from the past two weekends which I have spent with my family and my wife's family. At first, we have had a kind of family holiday revival at the place where we used to spend all our skiing holidays until our kids decided they don't like going skiing anymore, which was Sallbach-Hinterglemm ... and my wallet said "thank you" 😉
The weather was warm and the little amount of snow was melting - not the kind of winter holidays you might expect, but we have had a lot of fun together, and that's why we were there anyway.

Walking through Farm Fields in Lower Austria - Johann Piber

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The second weekend we have been about the same people when we visited our daughter and our niece who live in Lower Austria. Bad weather there and I missed the snowfall in the morning. The few photos I took after the snowfall would have been great if it still had been snowing, I believe.

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About an hour before it was snowing big and fluffy snowflakes in the area of St. Pölten in Lower Austria, but after we had finished our breakfast it stopped and so I could take these images only.

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They say an Austrian who doesn't complain must be ill or not a real Austrian... we always find something to complain about, and if there's nothing to complain about, we complain about it 😂 I think I should stop now before I really complain because Sunday is coming to an end, I'm very tired and already thinking about the mountains of work waiting for me on my desk 😅

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^{All photos were taken with the Canon EOS R and one of these lenses: Canon RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM, Canon RF 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM, Canon RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS 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.
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