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Henrik Spranz 🦋
@spranz.org
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Nature Photographer
#noAI
Occasionally speaker and competition judge
National Geographic Germany/APOY contest winner
Based in Austria
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Henrik Spranz 🦋 @spranz.org · Nov 25
Hi everybody!

It's update time - with a thread and a new grid.
Glad to meet you! 🦋
I'm Henrik, living in #Austria - and wildlife and the small world occupies most of my #photography. #Bokeh plays a big role in many of my photos.
Other main genres are landscape and ICM/double exposures.

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A 3x3 grid of example photos - with a profile photo on the middle. Subjects span from wildlife, butterflies, wildflowers, fungi, landscapes and experimental photography.
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Dear friends 🦋 Thanks so much for the kind likes and follows while I’ve been offline. I appreciate you all very much for sticking around. Life happens and it's no harm to take a break when needed. So I'll ease back in gently with some lovely lavender from my garden 💜
#flowerphotographer #lavender
September 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Light filters through & gently touches the foothills of the Tombstone mountains, painted in a kaleidoscope of mesmerizing autumn tundra. For scale, note the size of the subalpine fir trees! Yukon, Canada.

#photography #travel #bluesky #nature #landscape
#naturephotography #landscapephotography
November 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Bloody sunset from the French Alps, in the Chamonix valley…

#photography #nature #art #sunset
October 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Spot light in the Icelandic Highlands…
Shot from a Cessna plane.

#photography #landscape #nature #art
November 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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~Breathe~

This place took my breath away...and has filled me with humbleness and bliss.

Canon EOS R5 +Canon RF 14-35mm f/4L IS USM + polarizer

f/13, 1/2s, ISO-400, 27mm

#Nature #Photography #naturephoto #waterfall #waterfalls #naturephotography #longexposure #canon
A photo of an autumnal scene with orange and red leaves on rocks and moss in the foreground and a big waterfall coming out between mossy rock formations with the water running into the foreground - over a small cascade.
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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— Time to Leave —

#PoetryReading for #ImageAndVerse and #StunDay

#EastCoastKin collaboration

With Henrik @spranz.org

#poetry #ECKCollab

My #original voice with pitch increased 2 levels in Kinesmaster for rabbit voice
October 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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~Little Paradise~

A place I loved to be - you can feel the healing power of nature there.

Canon EOS R5 +Canon RF 14-35mm f/4L IS USM + @kfconcept_de magnetic polarizer

f/13, 1/2s, ISO-500, 20mm

#Nature #Photography #naturephoto #waterfall #naturephotography #longexposure #WaterfallWednesday
A photo of an autumnal scene with orange and red leaves on rocks and moss in the foreground and a small waterfall coming out between mossy rock formations with the water running into the foreground. The pool beneath the waterfall shows a typical turquoise in that region.
October 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Deep in the arid lands of northern Namibia, a miraculous artery of water traces the western and central border to Angola, and graces one of our planet's most beautiful waterfalls in a desert environment.

#bluesky #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #nature
September 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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~ Sunrise View ~

I'm still wondering if it's a common blue [Polyommatus icarus] or a Chapman's blue [Polyommatus thersites], but I'm tending to the first one.
1/80s, f/3.5, 180mm, ISO-400
#Canon EOS R5 + Canon EF 180mm f/3.5L Macro USM
#insects #macrophotography #naturephotography
#bokeh #butterfly
A photo of (very likely )common blue butterfly - still roosting on a burnet in front of the rising sun. Through using a long macro lens and open aperture the sun appears as a big orange disc behind the butterfly. The tones in the photo range from violet to orange - on this hazy early morning.
September 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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~ Start of a Day ~

A Marbled White [Melanargia galathea] starting for its first flight of the day.

Such movies usually don't get much love, but perhaps it sends some love to you 😊.

#Canon EOS R5 + Canon EF 180mm f/3.5L Macro USM

#insects #macrophotography #naturephotography
#bokeh #butterfly
September 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Overcast darkness & crystal clear iceberg reflection creates this otherworldly scene, captured around 2am in Disko Bay few weeks ago, while sailing back to Ilulissat.

Greenland is beautiful in dark to 🇬🇱🖤…

#photography #darkness #reflection #art
August 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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~ Meadow Brown ~

A Meadow brown [Maniola jurtina] in the very early morning. Those beauties are not rare, but it's rare to find them still roosting.

f/4, 1/160s, ISO-320, 180mm
#Canon EOS R5 + Canon EF 180mm f/3.5L Macro USM

#insects #macrophotography #naturephotography
#bokeh #butterfly
A photo of a Meadow brown [Maniola jurtina] in the very early morning. Only the butterfly is in focus, leaving the surrounding habitat as a bokeh lit by the early morning sun - and showing tones of green and yellow with some great pasque flowers standing out. The butterfly is still roosting on dried vegetation from last year.
August 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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~Hidden II~

A lovely and remote waterfall in #Slovenia.
Can't wait to go there again.

Canon EOS R5 + RF 14-35/4 + polarizer
f/13, 1/4s, ISO-100, 28mm

#Nature #Photography #naturephoto #waterfall #naturephotography #longexposure
A photo of a waterfall in the distance falling in two stages between rocky slows, partly covered with moss. In the foreground the water flows quite calmly between little rocks and stones. Branches on the right side bring the colours of autumn into the scene - some colourful leaves can be seen on the rocks too.
August 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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10 years to the day since I took what is probably my most acclaimed image.

Caister, Norfolk 2015.

#photography
#landscape
#seascape
A long exposure of a zig-zag groyne on the beach at Caister-on-Sea in Norfolk. The image had long streaks of white water as a wave draws back into the sea. This image was awarded the Adobe Prize in the 2016 Landscape Photographer of the Year award and featured in several national newspapers and websites. © Damian Ward 2015.
August 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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~ Three of a Kind ~

The time of photographing cyclamen has begun - I'm happy to have them growing wild in the forests around my home.

© Henrik Spranz #Austria 2025
#wildflowers #bokeh #photography #flower #nature
A photo of three wild growing cyclamen being in focus and using an open wide aperture. Their petals are pink. The rest of the scene is blurred. The bokeh of the surrounding vegetation shows tones of green of the surrounding vegetation and the brown of the forest floor and leaves from last year. You can also see some bokeh circles caused by reflections A photo of an An Elder-flowered orchid with only the flower being in focus and using an open wide aperture. The rest of the scene is blurred. The bokeh of the surrounding vegetation and the light of the setting sun shows tones of green and orange.
August 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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A double-crested cormorant basks in the morning sun at Izaak Walton Nature Area in Longmont, Colorado.

#StunDay #EastCoastKin
#ClassicMono #Monochrome #BW
#BlackandWhite #bird #birds #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos
June 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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A wild orchid beauty for your Monday:

A tongue-orchid [Serapias lingua] in the afternoon – in a light forest in Croatia.

© Henrik Spranz #Croatia 2023

#Canon EOS R5 + #meyergörlitz Trioplan 100 f2.8 II + ext. tube

No alteration/removal of image elements/just basic RAW development.
A photo of a tongue-orchid [Serapias lingua] with only the flower being in focus and using an open wide aperture. The rest of the scene is quite blurred. The bokeh of the surrounding vegetation includes a tree in the background and the scene is photographed against light of the late afternoon sun. The Trioplan produces the famous soap bubble bokeh, which can be easily recognized in this photo.
June 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Goose panic! The race to change your settings before they disappear 😁

So nice to see the fresh greens of spring a few weeks ago.

#LandscapePhotography #Landscapes #Photography
A calm morning with a little birch tree reflected in a loch. Geese fly overhead.
May 20, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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A new image from our Tuscany workshop few weeks ago…
Very productive trip, feels like I’ll never have time to edit all the good shots we got 😆!

#photography #landscape #phototours #nature #art
May 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Good morning. I made a visit to the cemetery yesterday photographing rhododendron. I turned & to my surprise found I was being watched. My fox!

#UKWildlife #UKbirding #Birds #wildlifephotography #photographersunited #PhotographersofBluesky #Photography #Fox #PhotoHour
A friendly fox sat looking alert. Bright eyes, upright ears and just wonderful.
May 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Soča River in spring

#slovenia #julianalps #trigalvnationalpark #spring #naturephotography
March 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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🎵 Karma camellia, red, gold and green...

It's a glorious Monday morning somewhere, and my inner world is going to find it.

#flowers #photography
May 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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~Last Light~

An Elder-flowered orchid [Dactylorhiza sambucina] with the last light of the day shining through some bushes.

#Canon EOS R5 + EF 180/3.5 macro

1/3.5, 1/2s, 180mm, ISO-125

© Henrik Spranz #Austria 2025

#wildflowers #bokeh #photography #flower #orchid #nature
A photo of an An Elder-flowered orchid with only the flower being in focus and using an open wide aperture. The rest of the scene is blurred. The bokeh of the surrounding vegetation and the light of the setting sun shows tones of green and orange.
May 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Studies have found that “forest bathing” (Shinrin-yoku) has positive physiological effects, such as blood pressure reduction, improvement of autonomic & immune functions, as well as psychological effects of alleviating #depression & improving #mentalhealth

#trees
#nature
#photography
#biophilia
A view up a large tree trunk to the tree canopy above with a huge array of stunning greens displayed in the leaves
January 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Copperline, Death Valley 2022 - one of my favorite sand dune photographs.
April 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM