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Niagara Falls

Ontario, Canada – October 2018 Their inflow is controlled in the course of their use to generate electricity by humans, their environment mutates into a kind of Disneyland…

Monarch Butterfly

(Danaus plexippus) Indiana, USA – September 2018 The monarch is known for his long migrations from eastern North America to his wintering grounds in Mexico. This specimen allows…

Paper Wasp

(Polistes metricus) Indiana, USA – October 2018 This wasp species lives in North America and is quite common in human settlements. The images were taken with a macro…

Mating Wheel Bugs

(Arilus cristatus) Indiana, USA – October 2018 These predatory bugs are common in North America but not very numerous. After I had first observed and photographed a single…

Garden Fleahopper

(Microtechnites bractatus) Indiana, USA – September 2018 Compared to this bug, the cloverleaf on which it sits looks huge. The rounded shape and the receding wings indicate that…

Saguaro

(Carnegia gigantea) Arizona, USA – July 2017 In the Sonora Desert, the characteristic column cacti determine the landscape. These cacti, also known as Saguaro, grow very slowly and…

Meteor Crater

Arizona, USA – July 2017 The impact of a meteorite about 50,000 years ago caused this crater. It has a diameter of about 1,200 m and a depth…

Ship Rock

New Mexico, USA – July 2017 The name couldn’t be more fitting. Like a ship on the horizon, this rock formation sails over the waving steppe landscape of…

Painted Desert

Arizona, USA – July 2017 The “Painted Desert” lies at about 1,800 meters above sea level on the Colorado Plateau and stretches in an arc over about 250…

Mesa Verde

Colorado, USA – July 2017 Mesa Verde is a national park located on a densely forested and rugged table mountain in Colorado. The mountain rises to more than…

Valley of the Gods

Utah, USA – July 2017 About 40 km northeast of Monument Valley lies the Valley of the Gods. In contrast to the Monument Valley, it is hardly touristically…

Monument Valley

Arizona & Utah, USA – July 2017 On our one-week tour across the Four-Corners region, in which the four states Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico border each…