Stinovylovec
Znojmo sunrise
It’s different this time - 2 photos with the same story. I was planning this for a long time, see that in my head, and finally got opportunity to do so (timing and weather). A Sunday was chosen as the D-day. My girlfriend had to go to work, so I get up with her at 3:50 am. Get dressed while still yawning and prepare the important meal of the day – first breakfast. Take my backpack, water, and load everything to the car, pickup the rest of the team (sometimes is better not to be alone, especially when other persons have coffee) and towards parking near Kraluv stolec. In the parking lot are 2 cars with a sleeping crew. We quietly pulled our things out and went through a night forest. After about a kilometre I found out that my phone remained in the car in a quite visible place… (Holly s*it) Put the backpack down and quick sprint to the car and back, all in the light of the headlamp. Fuuuuu, my pulse is 140+, lungs lying on the way. We kept going, it’s starting to be brighter, the forest coming to live – rustles, beeps, and roe deer barks everywhere. At a slightly increased pace, we arrived at a crossroad, on the right Kraluv stolec, on the left a viewpoint where we were headed. The narrow path winds through the forest, it’s still quite dark – we have time. Suddenly on the hillside beneath us we hear stomping, oink oink oink, blood in our veins is frozen, sphincter clenched (thankfully) – a small crowd of wild boars, more frightened than us, is moving away from us, we see shadows shifting away among the trees – what a relief. After a while we are on the lookout. We unpack the equipment, I choose a 150-600mm Sigma and start with some test photos, some HDR and panoramas. Now is the best time to sit with a coffee and just enjoy the nice view. We are waiting for the best moment. Another memory in the collection is how the morning sun spilled over the landscape, a slight haze over the river and the smell of hot coffee. Not far from us argue the magpies, and a nuthatch climbs a tree next to it, and a spotted woodpecker a short distance away. Suddenly, a larger bird flies silently and lands a few meters from us, startled and flies on, an owl at a guess. At one point, I change the lens to samyang 24mm and more photos are taken. Soon the sun is high enough, so we head back, almost no one in the woods. Excellent. The crews wake up in the parking lot with their breakfast and look at us suspiciously, we pack up and leave - it's 8 am. I consider dawn and dusk as the best parts of the day for the photo shoot. Dawn is sometimes better, because it is completely calm, and one never knows where a cloud or haze will appear.
Znojmo sunrise
It’s different this time - 2 photos with the same story. I was planning this for a long time, see that in my head, and finally got opportunity to do so (timing and weather). A Sunday was chosen as the D-day. My girlfriend had to go to work, so I get up with her at 3:50 am. Get dressed while still yawning and prepare the important meal of the day – first breakfast. Take my backpack, water, and load everything to the car, pickup the rest of the team (sometimes is better not to be alone, especially when other persons have coffee) and towards parking near Kraluv stolec. In the parking lot are 2 cars with a sleeping crew. We quietly pulled our things out and went through a night forest. After about a kilometre I found out that my phone remained in the car in a quite visible place… (Holly s*it) Put the backpack down and quick sprint to the car and back, all in the light of the headlamp. Fuuuuu, my pulse is 140+, lungs lying on the way. We kept going, it’s starting to be brighter, the forest coming to live – rustles, beeps, and roe deer barks everywhere. At a slightly increased pace, we arrived at a crossroad, on the right Kraluv stolec, on the left a viewpoint where we were headed. The narrow path winds through the forest, it’s still quite dark – we have time. Suddenly on the hillside beneath us we hear stomping, oink oink oink, blood in our veins is frozen, sphincter clenched (thankfully) – a small crowd of wild boars, more frightened than us, is moving away from us, we see shadows shifting away among the trees – what a relief. After a while we are on the lookout. We unpack the equipment, I choose a 150-600mm Sigma and start with some test photos, some HDR and panoramas. Now is the best time to sit with a coffee and just enjoy the nice view. We are waiting for the best moment. Another memory in the collection is how the morning sun spilled over the landscape, a slight haze over the river and the smell of hot coffee. Not far from us argue the magpies, and a nuthatch climbs a tree next to it, and a spotted woodpecker a short distance away. Suddenly, a larger bird flies silently and lands a few meters from us, startled and flies on, an owl at a guess. At one point, I change the lens to samyang 24mm and more photos are taken. Soon the sun is high enough, so we head back, almost no one in the woods. Excellent. The crews wake up in the parking lot with their breakfast and look at us suspiciously, we pack up and leave - it's 8 am. I consider dawn and dusk as the best parts of the day for the photo shoot. Dawn is sometimes better, because it is completely calm, and one never knows where a cloud or haze will appear.