Deutschland Landschaftsfotos (Landschaften, Natur und Ausblicke) (335)

Passage of a thunderstorm front on 30.08.2012 over the Elbe Valley near Bad Schandau, image 6: After the storm had passed, I was actually able to see the rock formation "Locomotive" near the spa town of Rathen "steaming" for the very first time, something I had seen many times before!! ;-) 
Michael Edelmann

Germany / Saxony / Saxon Switzerland

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Passage of a thunderstorm front on 30.08.2012 over the Elbe Valley near Bad Schandau, image 5: Here the storm cell has already crossed the Elbe and is moving eastward towards the Zittau Mountains. The extremely low-hanging and swirling cloud fragments are very clearly visible here! 
Michael Edelmann

Germany / Saxony / Saxon Switzerland

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Passage of a thunderstorm front on 30.08.2012 over the Elbe valley near Bad Schandau, image 4: Here the monster is just crossing the Elbe. Fortunately, the town of Bad Schandau only experienced a few strong gusts of wind and some rain! It looked worse a bit further north, from Königstein downstream along the Elbe! As I could see on the way back, branches and in some places entire trees had broken off here! 
Michael Edelmann

Germany / Saxony / Saxon Switzerland

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Passage of a thunderstorm front on 30.08.2012 over the Elbe Valley near Bad Schandau, image 3: And now the monster is here! With a massive gust front and turbulence that a photo can hardly capture! The entire formation rotated clearly counterclockwise, and the wisps of clouds rising behind the mountain on the left of the image took only a few seconds to reach the cloud base! In the far right background, the heavy rain/hail area can be seen. I believe this sight would have thrilled any "storm chaser"! Until now, I had only seen such images on TV reports from the USA! As I later learned, the same storm cell even produced a tornado over the Zittau Mountains shortly after this shot!! 
Michael Edelmann

Germany / Saxony / Saxon Switzerland

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Passage of a thunderstorm front on 30.08.2012 over the Elbe Valley near Bad Schandau, image 2: Here you can clearly see how the sky over the Lilienstein darkens more and more! 
Michael Edelmann

Germany / Saxony / Saxon Switzerland

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The following 6 images are intended as a small documentation of the passage of a severe storm over the Elbe Valley in Saxon Switzerland. All shots were taken on 30.08.2012 from the passenger steamer "Meissen" near the town of Bad Schandau. Here is image 1: While it almost becomes "night" in the Elbe Valley due to the approaching thunderstorm, massive cloud towers are already swelling over the Czech Republic, still illuminated by the sun at the upper parts. 
Michael Edelmann

Germany / Saxony / Saxon Switzerland

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Rock formation in the Elbe Valley, just below the spa town of Rathen, photographed on 30.08.2012 from the passenger steamer "Meissen". The somewhat mystical light resulted from the approach of a storm! (see following images!) 
Michael Edelmann

Germany / Saxony / Saxon Switzerland

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Shaggy ink caps (Coprinus comatus) in a row; 120930 
JohannJ

Galleries / Plants and fungi / Mushrooms

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Wild hops on the railway embankment......seen in Korschenbroich. I think it is a remnant from the times when there was more than one Altbier brewery in Korschenbroich. 28.9.2012 
Andreas Strobel

Germany / North Rhine-Westphalia / Rheinkreis Neuss, Galleries / Plants and fungi / Crops

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Dessau-Waldersee, Luisium Castle Park with castle, built from 1774 (02.10.2012) 
Peter Reiser

Germany / Saxony-Anhalt / Elbe Lowlands - Central Elbe

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Dessau, Georgium Castle Park, the most important landscape park of the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm in the English style (02.10.2012) 
Peter Reiser

Germany / Saxony-Anhalt / Elbe Lowlands - Central Elbe

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