The striking grouping of three small clouds above a single tree on the Klein Schmölen inland dune on the Elbe in the UNESCO Elbe-Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania River Landscape Biosphere Reserve prompted me to take this amusing photo. The inland dune is up to 30 metres high and is mainly home to dry sandy grassland with numerous rare animal and plant species.
The inland dune areas were decisively characterised by the last ice age. A large dune area was created along the glacial valley of the Elbe, stretching from Wittenberge in the south to Boizenburg in the north over a length of around 100 kilometres.
The Schmölen dune is the largest inland dune in Europe.
I was already taking photographs as a student and won prizes in international photography competitions. Now I have specialised in the photography of cultural landscapes. Human interventions in nature are my favourite motifs, which result in quite respectable pictures with a long-term effect and decorative character.
I was already taking..
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