Henrik Spranz 🦋

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Nature Photographer #noAI Occasionally speaker and competition judge National Geographic Germany/APOY contest winner Based in Austria https://linktr.ee/henrik_spranz

A photo of a snowdrop flower - photographed before sunset with reflections in the foreground and the ball of the setting sun in the background. Only the wildflower is in focus - so the surrounding grass and the background is blurred. The colours are warm.
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.
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.
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.
A short video of a Marbled White butterfly spreading and vibrating its wings to warm up on a cool morning. It warms up for its first flight and at the end of the video it's flying out of view. Only the butterfly and the dandelion it's sitting on are in focus, the surrounding vegetation is rendered in a colourful bokeh.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A photo of a Southern festoon butterfly in the early morning - opening its wings to warm up and prepare for the first flight. Only the butterfly is in focus, leaving the surrounding habitat as a bokeh lit by the early morning sun. The butterfly is still roosting on a dried grass from last year.
A photo of a Brown Argus butterfly [Aricia agestis] sitting on some dry plant. Only the plant and the butterfly are in focus. The meadow in the blurred part of the photo (bokeh) is coloured in the warm tones of the morning sunshine. Reflections in the dew on the grass create bokeh circles in different sizes. The butterfly has opened its wings to warm up for the first flight of the day.
A photo of a wild European rabbit in its urban habitat: some rail tracks in the city. The rabbit is just starting its jump across the track and the low point of view and wide open aperture on the long lens is blurring the rest of the scene. In the background there are bokeh circles caused by traffic signs.
A photo of a group (European) wood anemone [Anemone nemorosa] - photographed from a very low point of view . Only one of those wildflowers is in focus - so the other flowers and their leaves are shown blurred and the sky behind the trees in the background gives the space around the focused flower a bright bokeh.
A photo of a waterfall with typical green water in that region - surrounded by trees with the colourful leaves of autumn.
A photo of a group of small pasque flowers [Pulsatilla pratensis subsp. nigricans] - photographed at sunrise with reflections in the foreground and the ball of the rising sun in the background. Only the wildflowers are in focus - so the surrounding grass and the background is blurred.
A photo of a roosting butterfly - likely a pale clouded yellow [Colias hyale]. Only the butterfly and the dry plant it is roosting on are in focus. The rest of the scene is more or less blurred by using a longer tele macro and wide open aperture. There is the abstracted version of typical vegetation of a meadow on end of September to see. In the lower right corner a reflection caused a rainbow like impression.
A photo of group of Liverleaves [Hepatica nobilis] in the late afternoon. Only three Liverleaves are in focus - the two in the middle look like they are hugging each other. A fourth Liverleaf can be seen at the right, blurred because it is out of focus. A big bokeh circle above the flowers shows the silhouette of another flower. The leaves on the ground are blurred by more bokeh circles.
A movie with moving versions of my photographs showing wildflowers and butterflies just filming instead of a single shot with my Canon. The subject - like a liverleaf wildflower for example - is in focus, while the rest of the scene is blurred being out of focus using a wide open aperture on tele lenses, leading to a dreamlike bokeh.
A photo of a bigger group of liverleaves [Hepatica nobilis] photographed with a very low point of view on the forest ground. Only two of the wildflowers are in focus, while the rest can be recognized as blurred silhouettes in the bokeh. Besides the blue to violet colours of the flowers the orange colours of leaves and trees dominate.
A photo of a gorge in Austria. In the middle ground there is a basin of green water - on the left sine there's a swirl of autumnal leaves blurred by a long exposure to make the movement visible. The rocks in the foreground have some fallen leaves on them too. Higher rock formations in the background surround the small waterfall feeding the basin. Moss is covering part of the rocks.
A photo of a group of three wild orchids of the species Anacamptis pyramidalis. There is another one slightly in the background and it's already blurred because of the open aperture used on a tele lens. Only the group of three wild orchids is in focus and the rest of the scene is filled with the bokeh of the grass and other vegetation and the bokeh circles of the light shining through some canopy of leaves of a tree behind.
A photo of a violet fritillary butterfly [Boloria dia] covered with frost and lit by the sun from the back by the very early morning sun. Only the butterfly and the withered plant it's sitting on are in focus - leaving the rest of the scene with the bokeh of many other withered plants of an early spring meadow.
A photo of a creek with small falls in the fore and middle ground, flowing between mossy rocks and right underneath the viewer. In the background there is an old water mill and the colourful trees of autumn. The atmosphere is humid as it was a rainy day.
A photo of a Scilla vindobonensis (or probably Scilla bifolia, but the habitat makes Scilla vindobonensis more likely) between a lot of snowdrops in a floodplain forest south of Vienna. Only the Scilla is in focus, so the snowdrops are blurred, but still recognizable.
A photo of snowdrops and a scilla in a floodplain forest. Only one snowdrop is in focus - there is a blurred silhouette of a scilla in the background and more blurred snowdrops in the fore- and background. Blue tones dominate the scene - the white balance has been tweaked to blue.
A photo of a red beech tree in the foreground with a twig carrying orange leaves. The silhouettes of many red beeches can be seen in the background - they are covered by a layer of fog. The tree in the foreground is put on the right side according to the rules of thirds.
A photo of a bee orchid [Ophrys apifera] in a sunlit meadow - lit by the evening sun. Only the wild orchid is in focus and the surrounding bokeh is filled with the colours of a late spring meadow and grass textures.
A photo of a dragonfly - very likely a ruddy darter - still roosting on a plant in the very early morning. The dragonfly is covered with dew. Photographed from the side with quite open aperture its body and the plant are in focus. The rest of the scene is filled with blurred and abstracted vegetation of the habitat.
A photo of two black-veined white butterflies [Aporia crataegi] roosting on a Carthusian pink in the early morning. The butterflies and the plant are in focus and the habitat is shown as an abstract version of the surrounding flowers because they are out of focus.
A photo of a group of liverleaves [Hepatica nobilis] on the forest floor. Only two of them are in focus - and with all the blurred silhouettes of the other liverleaves in the bokeh, you could think it's a kind of gathering or party. Those two in focus fade into some foreground bokeh circles - so those two really stand out of the flower crowd.
A photo of a chalkhill blue sitting on a tiny bellflower - opening its wings for the first flight. The befflower and most of the butterfly are in focus. The embedding vegetation is out of focus, but there are textures of grasses and other plants to see.
A photo of two ducklings in a studio setting. One seems to say something aloud to the other - and the second looks in to the camera like in a sketch.
A photo of a group of small pasque flowers being in focus and the lights of the still sleeping city in the background. Those lights appear as big bokeh circles in the background. About 30 minutes before sunrise the tones in the sky are ranging from blue to pink - the grass and vegetation in the foreground is out of focus.
A photo of a lake in Austria on a foggy day. There are two islands with trees on it to see - the one further away is vanishing a bit more in the fog. There is a reflection of both island and the trees on it to see. The impression is very moody.
A photo of a six-spot burnet (moth) roosting on a burnet (plant) . Both of them are in focus and the rest of the scene! Is not, but you can tell by the colours and textures that it's sitting in a meadow filles with clover and burners. The scene is filled with tones of violet and green and the yellow of the sunlight.
A photo of wild growing Cyclamen . On the left side of the photo there is a group of three Cyclamen to see they are all in focus. The rest of the scene if quite blurred, but you can make still make out leaves and other Cyclamen in the bokeh. The floor is covered with leaves but there are only visible very blurred, but they give a calm bokeh near the bottom of the photo.
A photo of an autumnal forest consisting mainly of red beeches. The floor is covered with orange to red coloured leaves, the colours of the leaves still up on the trees range from green to yellow to orange. Fog is concealing the trees further away.
A photo of a grey cat raising it's paw like it want to greet someone - this happened while playing. Only the cat is in focus and is embedded in a bokeh of the lawn in the foreground and the sun lit leaves of some bushes in the background.
A photo of a red beech tree in the foreground with a twig carrying orange leaves. The silhouettes of many red beeches can be seen in the background - they are blurred of using a quite open aperture and using intentional camera movement. The many snowflakes appear as smaller and big bokeh circles because of using a flash.
A photo of a landscape in Saxon Switzerland located in Germany. The landscape shows hills covered with forests and layers of fog in between. The forests show the beautiful colours of autumn. In the middle right of the photo between patches of fog and trees, a few houses of a small village can be discovered.
A photo of a ale marbled white butterfly [Melanargia galathea] still roosting just as the sun rises above the horizon. It is roosting on a knapweed plant and only the plant and butterfly are in focus. The surrounding vegetation is blurred by being out of focus, but you can still guess what it is. The blossoms are violet - and the scene is filled with a soft orange red light.
A photo of two greater pasque flowers, both with their calyx open, with light illuminating their fine hairs (trichomes) - besides the blossoms everything is more or less out of focus, getting a bokeh of surrounding grass, reflections of light and leaves from last autumn.
A photo of a gorge with waterfall coming in from the side - and the water of the gorge filled with turquoise water, which is typical for this place. The rocky walls of the gorge are like six to seven meters high if I remember correctly.
A short video of hoar frost covering trees, branches and twigs in a forest with the blue sky above.
A photo of a forest in winter - with leaves and needles of trees covered in hoarfrost. The forest floor is covered with fallen red leaves from autumn.
A photo of a small butterfly still roosting in a meadow during golden hour in September. Only the butterfly and it's roosting plant are in focua. The rest of the image is more or less out of focus showing the vegetation around like Scabioses and big bokeh circles.
A photo of a dove drinking from the mouth of a Stube sculpture belonging to an ancient fountain in Italy. The dove needs to put its head down and tail up to drink, while the eyes of stone animal sculpture seem to look under it.
A photo of a Alpine squill [Scilla bifolia] wildflower - being in focus, embedded in lots of bokeh circles immersed in warm colours.
A photo of an old spiral staircase in Vienna - when the lights went out. In the upper part of the photo there's a bright round window to see. From there the the staircase is going in spirals down to the viewer. The strong contrasts only let you see the textures of the railing.
A photo of a beautiful gorge with a stream containing reddish water, surrounded by mossy stones. Many stones have colourful leaves on them. In the background there are trees to see - also a mall waterfall. The stream continues under right into the viewer - as it was photographed from in the water. The water looks very creamy from using a longer shutter time of 10 seconds.
A photo of a snowy forest. Using intentional camera movement through tilting the camera during a longer exposure, the trees look like quite abstract. The falling snow is represented by bokeh circles and curly lines all over the photo.
A photo of a brimstone butterfly sitting on a twig with leaves. The background is lit by the early morning sun and quite bright - with more leaves and twigs in the bokeh. The butterfly and parts of the twig is in focus - leaving the surroundings quite blurred.
A photo of a beautiful rock formation in Saxon Switzerland with fog between the different layers of hills in the background. The trees show it has been photographed in autumn - as the leaves of many trees show their autumnal yellow leaves. The sunrise bathes the landscape in warm and delicate colours.
A photo of a path leading through oak trees the famous Wienerwald. It was photographed in early December - only a few leaves are left on the trees and the forest ground is covered with them. The path vanishes in the foggy background.
A photo of a group of three wildflowers of the species cyclman. Only those flowers are in focus, the rest of the photo is filled with out-of-focus flowers and other plants and bokeh circles caused by light and reflections - and the predominant colours are pink and green.
A photo of a mountain range in blueish tones. It was a stormy day and the clouds look like waves crushing onto a rocky coast.
A photo of a pearly heath butterfly already roosting for the night. It was photographed during blue hours and there are out of focus grasses and wildflowers of a Scabiosa species to see.