Hans Schoen

Keep the Balance

Keep the Balance

Female common Kingfisher balancing on its perch. Image Details: Date: February 5th, 2023 Location: Hungary Canon Gear Focal Length: 500 mm Aperture: f 4 Exposure: 1/400 sec. ISO: 1600 

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It Has Begun

It Has Begun

I think it’s a clear sign of climate changing that most of the early spring bloomers appear already in February and it seems to me earlier every year. In former times sometimes you could watch them early as well after a mild winter, but nowadays it is regularly to find a lot of flowers already […]

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Winter Morning

Winter Morning

Great Cormorant heading the beginning day. Image Details: Location: Hungary Date: February 7th, 2023 Canon Gear Focal Length: 300 mm Aperture: f 2.8 Exposure: 1/1600 sec. ISO: 4000

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Ice Ice Baby

Ice Ice Baby

Beyond the ice in a glacier mouth in Nationalpark Hohe Tauern.

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Spread your Wings

Spread your Wings

White-tailed eagle starting from a snowy tree. Image Details: Location: Hortobagy, Hungary Date: January 26th, 2017 Canon Gear Focal Length: 500 mm Aperture: f 5 Exposure: 1/1600 sec. ISO: 1000

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Spots of Red

Spots of Red

A middle spotted woodpecker (Leiopicus medius), which has a rather small distribution area in Central Europe visiting my garden during heavy snowfall. Image Details:  Location: Lower Austria Canon Gear Focal Length: 300 mm Aperture: f 3.5 Exposure: 1/8000 sec ISO: 1000

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Shaped by Water

Shaped by Water

Detail of the Raabklamm – a gorge in Styria

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Attack from Behind

Attack from Behind

There is always some quarrel among a flock of sparrows, this is funny to watch. These two female house sparrows want to use the same perch. Image Details: Date: November 13th, 2022 Location: Lower Austria Canon Gear Aperture: f 5.6 Focal Length: 700 mm Exposure: 1/1250 sec.  

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Mystic Mood

Mystic Mood

Grey Heron in flight above misty landscape. Image Detail: Location: Vienna Date: February 28th, 2022 Canon Gear Focal Length: 500 mm Aperture: f 4 Exposure: 1/8000 sec ISO: 1600

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High Up

High Up

Red squirrel (black morph) on its lookout. Image Details:  Location: Lower Austria Date: November 11th, 2017 Canon Gear Focal Length: 500 mm Aperture: f 4.5 Exposure: 1/400 sec ISO: 1250

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