When we drove home at Christmas, we passed through a beautiful landscape full of frozen forests. Unfortunately I didn’t have the drone with me then, so yesterday I set off once more. Just before Stein am Rhein I spotted frozen treetops on a hill, drove there and unpacked the drone.
Ice and fog
From above, the forest showed itself in all its splendour: the frozen treetops glittered, banks of fog drifted just above, and on the ground old leaves added a few dabs of colour.
A spontaneous trip to the frozen forest
This spontaneous trip was worth it – pictures like these are only possible on a few days a year. Stein am Rhein lies where Lower Lake Constance flows into the High Rhine, roughly halfway between Schaffhausen and Konstanz; its medieval old town with its painted façades has survived to this day.
Hoarfrost at the edge of the forest beside a green meadow – frozen forest near Stein am Rhein.A dense white canopy of hoarfrost.Hoarfrost and green conifers in the fog, twice.Frosted crowns and dark conifers above brown ground.White crowns and a misty mixed forest.Green conifers between frosted broadleaf trees.A large green conifer in the middle of white hoarfrost.Almost nothing but white crowns in the fog.A narrow path running straight through the frosted forest.A dark conifer crown against white hoarfrost.Green conifers and a bend in the path amid the hoarfrost.Frosted treetops beneath grey fog.A bend in the path and a green tree in the hoarfrost.A winding forest path between hoarfrost and brown leaves – dabs of colour on the ground.Several green trees in the white hoarfrost.Frosted crowns vanishing into the fog.Green conifers scattered through the hoarfrost.Frosted treetops beneath white fog – the line blurs.Fog above frosted broadleaf trees and dark conifers.Ivy on tall trunks before frosted crowns.Slender trunks between hoarfrost and brown undergrowth.Two tall pines with brown trunks above the hoarfrost.A yellow wall on brown leaves before the frozen forest.Hoarfrost in the fog, dark conifers on the left.Green conifers beside orange-brown leaves.Dense hoarfrost, one especially white crown at the bottom right.Across the frosted crowns into the fog.Even rows of white treetops – pictures like this happen on only a few days a year.
