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Category: Landscape

Paranal before the daybreak

In the Chilean Atacama desert, 2635 metres high above the sea level, there is ESO’s Paranal observatory – one of the most spectacular observatory in the world. When you stay there and watch the pure beauty of the Universe on the technically perfect platform of the observatory with one of the world’s biggest telescopes, you…
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Magical Quivertree forest moment

As I am not the daytime photographer, I usually just enjoy natural moments before the night finally comes. But sometimes the circumstances just make an opportunity to make interesting shot anyway. Such as in this case. The sunset over the Quivertree forest of Namibia, on 29th September 2015, was of those unique moments. While walking…
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Seeking Venus under the Spitzkoppe arch

There are not so many places in the world, where you can feel so small and nugatory in compassion to the nature around you, but also such grateful to the world to be the part of a moment in this beautiful natural spot. With no doubt, one of those places is the Spitzkoppe national park…
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Desert eclipse

The last remarkable eclipse in the world occured in September 2015. The spectacular total lunar eclipse was visible from Europe, Africa and the US as well. I was so lucky to enjoy it from Sesriem, Namibia, over the Namib desert. I still cannot forget the last moments of this, during partial phase, as the full…
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The Perseid rain over the Kolonica Saddle

The annual meteor shower Perseid had absolute great conditions this year. New Moon occurred just day after the maximum as it was about 6:30 to 9:00 UTC on August 13th, 2015. Last time the “moonless Perseids” were in 2013 and the next time we will enjoy that in 2018. I took a risk for possible…
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One day we’ll sail there…

Another beautifully calm night over the Seč reservoir came on 16th July 2015. The Milky Way looked like a river in the sky, so I just walked on the coast until I found this abandonment boat. Then it just came up in my mind: This starry river is still a visual metaphor for our liquid…
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The calm planetary guardians

Like a calm guardians in the sky, there was the beautiful duo of Venus and Jupiter on 1st July 2015 in the sky. I was looking for the best spot on the beach of the Sec reservoir as the planets were slowly moving down to the western horizon. I couldn’t find anything what could be…
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