Skyline of Seattle from the Bainbridge ferry

Downtown, Seattle, Washington • United States Seattle Waterfront with its observatory wheel, taken from the ferry toward Bainbridge, an Island across the Puget Sound. The island makes for an easy escape from the busy city into a rural environment, while still offering visitors some areas to explore and cafes to enjoy a lunch-break.

Cape Foulwind Rock

Cape Foulwind, West Coast • New Zealand Cape Foulwind’s first European “visitor” was, in 1642, Abel Tasman. He named it Rocky Cape. But when in 1770 Captain Cook arrived here on his ship, the Endeavour, he renamed it to Cape Foulwind, as he was especially unlucky with the weather on the day he arrived and his ship was actually blown out to sea.

Pancake Rocks - dinosaur head

Pancake Rocks, Punakaiki, West Coast • New Zealand Rockformation looking like the head of a dinosaur at Pancake Rocks in Punakaiki at the West Coast of New Zealand

Urnes Stavkirke - Northern Portal & Fjord

Urnes, Sogn og Fjordane • Norway Urnes Stave Church (Stavkirke) - build between 1150 and 1200, the northern portal and other parts are from an older building. It has been on the Unesco's world heritage list since 1980 This photo is published in Lille Ulven Photography's Norway calendars.

Rubjerg Knude Fyr

Hjørring, North Denmark Region • Denmark The lighthouse was built in 1900 about 100 meters away from the coast. But unfortunately after it was built it also created a shelter from the wind, which then created a wandering dune. Today the lighthouse is about 3 meters from falling down the steep coast into the Northsea - so this is most likely one of the very last photos that I will ever be able to take of it.

Fields of Cades Cove

Blount County, Townsend, Tennessee • USA Fields of Cades Cove

Reflections in Lake Mathewson

Fox Glacier, West Coast • New Zealand

Lake Matheson

Lake Matheson, Fox Glacier, West Coast • New Zealand Reflection of Aoraki (Mt. Cook) and Rarakiora (Mt. Tasman) in Lake Matheson, near Fox on New Zealands South Island. The photo is taken at 7:17 a.m. - luckyly we did not have many clouds to deal with but could witness part of the sunrise as well. Lake Matheson was formed when the glacier Te Moeka o Tuave retreated from its last major advance 14,000 years ago, and left a depression which later filled with water.

Lake Wakatipu

Glenorchy, Otago • New Zealand A nice view over the shore of Lake Wakatipu close to Glenorchy on the South Island of New Zealand. The lake as been created by a glacier that carved out the canyon 15,000 years ago. Even though it is a relatively thin canyon at its deepest it reaches 399m. With its total length of 84 km it is the second largest lake on the South Island. Still unexplained by science the lake rises and falls about 12 cm (5 inch) every hour - the Maori legend says that a giant who abducted a chiefs daughter was burned to death. So the shape of the lake reassembles the sleeping giant - with the head at Glenorchy and the knees at the hight of Queenstown - and the rising and falling of the lake is due to the heartbeat of the giant, since his heart did not stop beating even though he was burned. More about it here

Snow and Ice

Venabygdsfjellet, Oppland • Norway

Lake Pukaki

Tekapo, Canterbury • New Zealand Lake Pukaki with Aoraki (Mount Cook) in the fog. Waking up before the last day of riding my bike in New Zealand to fog an clouds. But it was the day when we were supposed to see Aoraki (Mount Cook) rising over Lake Pukaki...that doesn't sound to good for any kind of photography. How should be be able to spot the mountain, which has a top cover to some degree in permanent ice, in these conditions after all? But giving up before even getting there is not an option either... So I guess this is Mount Cook over Lake Pukaki in the fog then.

Road Prong

Sevier County, Chimney Tops Trail, Tennessee • USA Road Prong River goes close to the Road Prong Trail, which already was old when the Cherokee used it. It connects Clingmans Dome Road with Chimney Tops Trail. Road Prong Trail is the oldest known Indian Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and was until 1920, when the Newfound Gap Road was built, the only road over the Smokies.