week 12 - almost touching the sky

I really like this one :)



So...we finally moved to Bavaria. Outside of Bamberg it actually looks pretty nice, look at that:

The weather wasn't perfect for landscape photography and I shot against the sun...how clever...so I just tried to use some nice compositions (stones as a foreground, rule of thirds)

On our way we found this little snake...Does anybody know what kind of snake this is? I guess it was a baby, maybe 20 cm(about 8 inches) long. Somebody said it was a Coronella austriaca but I'm not quite sure about that. Any other ideas?


on our way up:


simple...