If I counted right, it's the seventh round in the #AlphabetHunt challenge of Barbara @barbara-orenya and her Feel Good Community: illustrate 6 words (or concepts) starting with the letter of the week.

This weeks hunt goes for the Letter "G": #AlphabetHunt letter G - and the winners of the draw for the #F week [ENG-FR].

Chasing the G
^{#AlphabetHunt}

Now, let's begin with the first photo of a sleepy Grasshopper...

Great Green Bush Cricket

Of course, you may call this little guy a Grasshopper, but it is the Nymph of a Great Green Bush Cricket - Tettigonia viridissima.

A few weeks ago I was on a morning walk at the reservoir when I spotted this little grasshopper on the still closed dandelion blossom. The grasshopper was just about to wake up, but didn't move so that I could get a decent sharp macro shot it.

Hive Alphabet Hunt: Great Green Bush Cricket Nymph

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^{Canon EOS R | SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM
ISO 100 . f/5.6 . 1/8 sec . @105 mm}

Tettigonia Viridissima - Wikipedia

Green Flower Garden

I thought today I could share some snapshots from my parents' Garden with you. It is more a lawn with some flower areas, but there's also a little Greenhouse with tomatoes and a small garden with zucchini,cucumbers, currants and a few more vegetables and fruits.

This cabin has grown from a tiny Garden shed to a little house over the past 30 years or so.

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^{Canon EOS R | RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM} Hive Alphabet Hunt: Green Flower Garden

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^{Canon EOS R | RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM} Hive Alphabet Hunt: Green Flower Garden

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^{Canon EOS R | RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM} Hive Alphabet Hunt: Green Flower Garden

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^{Canon EOS R | RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM} Hive Alphabet Hunt: Green Flower Garden

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^{Canon EOS R | RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM}

This is the view towards the forest where I had my walk the day before I took these photos (Waterfalls behind the House - WednesdayWalk).

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^{Canon EOS R | RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM}

Goldhaube

In the beginning of January this year I drove over the Soboth Pass in the east of Carinthia, at border to our neighbor state Styria, where Arnold Schwarzenegger is at home. Still in Carinthia I stopped at a viewpoint, from which I saw a part of the Austrian Air defense system, the Goldhaube Radar System on the Speikkogel mountain.

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^{Canon EOS R | SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM C
ISO 800 . f/6.3 . 1/640 sec . @600 mm}

The snow was illuminated beautifully pink by the morning sun and so I thought I could try my 150-600mm Sigma Supertelezoom lens. It was a bit windy and still too dark, but I'm happy with the photos, because the distance to these buildings was about 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) as the crow flies.

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^{Canon EOS R | SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM C
ISO 100 . f/6.3 . 1/320 sec . @600 mm}

Austrian Air Defense - Goldhaube - Wikipedia

Castle Griffen

On the same morning when I took the above photos I drove on a different road back home and so I could take some photos of the Castle ruin Griffen in the village of the same name.

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^{Canon EOS R | EF 70-200mm f/4 L IS II USM
ISO 100 . f/8 . 1/80 sec . @181 mm}

I believe the mountain range in the background must be the Obir mountain range, the highest mountain range in the North Karawanks with its highest peak, the Hochobir (2,139 m / 7,017.7 ft).

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^{Canon EOS R | EF 70-200mm f/4 L IS II USM
ISO 100 . f/8 . 1/250 sec . @200 mm} Hive Alphabet Hunt: Castle Griffen

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^{Canon EOS R | EF 70-200mm f/4 L IS II USM
ISO 100 . f/8 . 1/125 sec . @139 mm}

Castle Griffen - Wikipedia
Hochobir - Wikipedia

The Great Soča Gorge

I haven't posted any photos of the beautiful emerald green Soča river in Slovenia for quite a while, and I still haven't been there since the borders are open again. So I had to search for some photos of the Great Soča Gorge, which I haven't posted before.

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^{Canon EOS R | RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM
ISO 100 . f/11 . 0.3 sec . @50 mm}

I took these photos in November 2019 after a few rainy days. If it had rained more there would have been more little streams flowing and falling into the river from both sides of the gorge.

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^{Canon EOS R | RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM
ISO 100 . f/11 . 0.4 sec . @98 mm} Hive Alphabet Hunt: Great Soča Gorge

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^{Canon EOS R | RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM
ISO 100 . f/9 . 1/15 sec . @24 mm}

Soča - Wikipedia

New Green Growth

Finally the word Growth came into my mind and I remembered the following two photos.

I have taken the first photo a few weeks ago at the Drau reservoir and I have no idea what the name of this plant is, but these fresh leaves looked quite interesting to me.

I wanted to make a focus stacked image, but at home it turned out that I had taken too less photos or didn't seem to have captured all of the focus levels. Below you can see the result with quite a few blurry areas.

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^{Canon EOS R | SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM
ISO 100 . f/5.6 . 1/30 sec . @105 mm}

On my forest walk last weekend I have seen this little baby tree which has grown on a rotten and mossy tree trunk. Of course, I photographed it, because you never know when you might need a photo of a little tree 😉

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^{Canon EOS R | SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM
ISO 100 . f/5.6 . 1/60 sec . @105 mm}

So, that was it for today - 6 words starting with G and I am fully aware, that the word Green dominates my post, but I do hope you like my photos anyway 😊

Information

All photos were shot with the Canon EOS R and one of these lenses: Canon RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM, Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L IS II USM, Canon EF 16-35mm 1:4 L IS USM, Canon EF 50mm 1:1.8 L STM, SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM, SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM C.

I leave all EXIF and IPTC information stored in the pictures.

If you like my photos I would appreciate an upvote, nice comment or maybe you want to share my post on your blog 😊 ... and maybe you would like to follow me, so that you never miss a post from me.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog,
have a nice evening and a great week ahead,

^{Photos and Text: Johann Piber | All rights reserved - do not use without my permission}

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