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Philipp Maier
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Veterinarian, Zoologist
Master Beekeeper at https://www.imkerei-maier.at
Mead Maker at metkeller.at
Potpourri of Entomology, Microscopy, Photography, Botany, Fermentation, All Creatures Great and Small, Metal, Dry humor and everything in between. (he/him)
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Gerade bei der Adventjause des Lichtblickhofes. Für alle katzenbegeisterten Menschen kann ich das nagelneue Buch "Dr. Katze" von Roswitha Zink, Renate Deimel & Karin Hediger sehr empfehlen.
Buch Dr. Katze, Therapie auf samtenen Pfoten. Cover mit Katze auf der Schulter einer Person.
November 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Instant relaxation. Sound on!!
About 45 minutes after a thunderstorm near the only Austrian UNESCO world natural site.
#nature #relax #birds #landscape
July 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Highland stream. 2025

#canon #landscape #photography #water #scotland #longexposure
A longer exposure image of brown, peaty water of a small stream splashing over rocks. A rhododendron plant is to the left - its branches reaching to the lower center of the image. Tufts of dead redish brown grass hang dow at the top right. Big rocks have been washed to the sides of the stream their colours varying from greenisch grey to rusty red-brown.
July 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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"Time; fabric of plasticity"

#macro #photography #canon #sand #beach
A macro of fine white coral sand mixed with small black stones and rounded parts of red to orange and white pieses of shell. The pieces of coral are everything from round to short twig-like and ground to organic rounded shapes.
July 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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'Tiere (ohne Hund / Katze)' #FotoVorschlag

Kelpie. Scotland 2025

#monochrome #scotland #photography #horses #kelpie
B&W image of one of the Kelpies, Scotland.
July 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Bullfinch having lunch. Edinburgh 2025

#birds #wildlife #photography #nature #trees #edinburgh #canon
A male bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) with its redish-pink chest feathers and black cap on its head sitting on a branch eating seeds from the tree it is sitting in. There is a branch with oval green leaves in the foreground and one to the left of the image. They carry tiny wilted flowers (brown) and green fruit or seed pods.
June 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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@compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social Hard to believe...i actually had one there - with a cup of coffee. Room for debate but I eat them Devon style with the jam on the cream... the cask ale sort of happened later 😁
A scone with clotted cream and jam on a beige/grey rounded triangular plate. The scone is placed on a folded serviette, the cream is in a sealed dish (Rodda's clotted cream) and the scottish jam is in a small jar with a brownisch red lid.
June 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Culross, Scotland 2025

#scotland #village #photography #urban #canon #history
A photograph of two old 16-17th century houses behind the Mercat Cross. The houses are painted white with the windows left in natural stone around the frames. Roofs are terra cotta tiles.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Jackdaw, Scotland 2025

#FotoVorschlag #photography #wildlife #birds #vögel #canon #nature
An inquisitive jackdaw pirched on some rocks. The bird is in the center looking to the left front of the image, the sun is shining from the right. Its light blue eyes of the jackdaw are a nice contrast to the black plumage. The background are out of focus rocks and tufts of green-beige grass.
June 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Longer exposure try. Trumpan, Scotland 2025

#scape #seascape #longexposure #photography #canon #stones
A long exposure image of a stoney shore with nice dark grey, round rocks. Sunset in the background. The light waves show as a grey mist on the surface due to exposure time.
June 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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European robin (Erithacus rubecula), Scotland 2025

#photography #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #canon #birds #robin #scotland #garden
Lateral close up of a european robin (Erithacus rubecula) standing on a rock and looking to the right. Background is out of focus green foliage.
June 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Beauly Firth. Scotland 2025.

#travel #photography #landscape #weather #rain #clouds #scotland #nature #canon
A landscape image of hills behind Beauly Firth. Gloomy dark blue-grey clouds hanging over everything and heavy rain to the right coming in at an angle from the right. In the centre a light patch where the sun is trying to come through with some white clouds. In front of the firth - low tide.
June 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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A million promises.

Edinburgh 2025.

#scotland #mobile #blackabdwhite #urban #photography
Black & white image of the top of the news steps. The image shows the dark railing with a white sign with dark letters "the news steps". On the railing toward the lower part of it there are hundreds of padlocks. The steps go toward the right of the image.
May 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Evening walk.

#photography #scotland #mobile #urbanphotography #architecture #blackandwhite
B&W image of St. Giles' Cathedral at night with a few passers by. Darker, highly detailed main front with illuminated central spire.
May 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Secrets.

#photography #doors #flowers #plants #arches #canon
A brick-arched green wooden door, framed by trees, ivy and red peonies.
May 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Iris near our Mead cellar. Lower Austria. 2025

#iris #flowers #macro #plants #photography #nature #canon
An Image of an Iris flower. The top petals are white, the "lip" is a light violett. Background green grass and leaves.
May 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Slow Food Connection. Protaetia sp. on Plantago media. Lower Austria, 11.05.2025

#macro #austria #photography #wildlife #plants #flowers #insects #beetle #nature #canon
A metallic Rose-Chafer (Protaetia sp.) feasts head down on pollen of the pink and white efflorescence of Plantago media.(Hoary Plantain) The background is an out of focus lush, light green of herbs and grasses.
May 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Vienna. Austria. 14.05.2025

#vienna #landscape #sky #mobilephotography #photography
Sonst over Vienna toward the West. The sun has set with orange clouds on a background of blue Sky. The houses of Vienna in the low third of the image.
May 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Tranquil moment. A speckled wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria) hanging out in the sun. Lower Austria 2025

#canon #macro #nature #wildlife #photography #wildlifephotography #buttefly #insects
An image of a speckled wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria) sitting on a blade of lush green grass.The butterfly is dark brown with orange patches on its wings. The front wing has an eye spot toward the tip. the hind wing has a row of eye spots in orange patches parallel to the rounded edge. The background is light and dark tones of green and out of focus.
May 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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The Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) usually one of the first messengers of spring.

#photography #macro #canon #wildlife #wildlifephotography #insects #butterfly #nature
An image of a Brimstone butterfly sitting on a dandelion flower drinking nectar. The right side of the light yellow butterfly is facing the camera a little above the center of the picture. The dandelion in strong dark yellow is to the right of it. The background is composed of out of focus blades of grass of lush shades of green and dark gaps.
April 29, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Orange tip (Anthocharis cardamines), male, on one of its food plants Alliaria petiolata - Garlic mustard. Lower Austria 2025

#wildlifephotography #photography #nature #canon #butterflies #macro
A photgraph showing a male Orange tip butterfly sitting on an efflorescence of garlic mustard. The orange tip with its wings spread is generally white on top but has orange tips on the front wings around half way down. Right at the tip there is a small black area. The body is a fluffy dark grey. The garlic mustard flowers are small, white with 4 petals on each flowerand the come in bunches of about 8 per cluster. The image has 4 of these clusters. The leaves are light green, heart shaped with jagged edges. The background consists of out of focus twigs and foliage in greens and browns.
April 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata)

#macro #ladybird #wildlife #nature #photography #beetle #canon #wildlifephotography
A ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata) on a blade of grass. The orange ladybird is sitting in the middle of the blade of green grass. The background is out of focus green plants.
April 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Taking some pictures of a Xylocopa sp. today this pretty little sparkle crossed my path. One of the many Chrysisidae species. (Ruby tailed wasp) Lower Austria 22.04.2025

#macro #insects #photography #nature #wildlifephotography #canon
A macro image of a Chrysididae wasp (Ruby tailed wasp) siting on a withered piece of wood. The wood is textured and is a fibery grey-brown with black lines. The wasp has a metallic green-blue head and thorax, eyes black. The abdomen is a metallic ruby red. Wings are clear and folded on the back.
April 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Polygonia c-album basking in the sun. Lower Austria.

#nature #wildlife #butterfly #macro #insects #photography #wildlifephotography
A macro of Polygonia c-album sitting on a dead vine branch. P. c-album has light to dark orange wings with black and yellow spots the edges of the wings are jagged. The background is out of focus and shades of green.
April 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Evening Rainbow. Lower Austria.
#landscape #evening #photography #sky #nature #photography #canon #austria
An indirect sunset image with blue-grey clouds in the top half of the picture. The lower part of the picture is dark green fields and trees to the horizon. A wedge of yellow-orange sunset in between coming from the right and at the tip of the wedge there is a vertical rainbow with dominant reds reaching from the clouds nearly to the ground. Rain is visible as a blue-grey haze to the left of the rainbow.
April 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM