A photo exhibition in the town hall in Dorfen shows views of the “nature at home”.
Dorfen
- "Nature at home" is the name of the exhibition by the two renowned Dorfen nature photographers Andreas Hartl and Stefan Masur.
A total of 25 motifs can be seen in the town hall until July 16.
The viewer is shown the scenic beauty of the Isental valley and the local bird life.
Hartl started taking photos as a ten-year-old boy, he says.
"I had an Aqua box camera - films and development were expensive at the time, so you had to think carefully about when to press the shutter button," recalls the 73-year-old GAL city councilor.
First he photographed storks, then later native fish - many of them are now "highly threatened", and storks in large numbers used to take a break in villages and devour themselves before they flew south.
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Mayor Heinz Grundner (center) thanked the photographers Andreas Hartl (left) and Stefan Masur for their commitment to the photo exhibition “Natur dahoam”.
© Michaele Heske
"What has been lost in nature over the course of my generation is terrifying as a result," says Hartl.
The former head of administration at the Dorfen town hall tried to minimize interference with nature while still working.
"We have tried to take a lot of compensatory measures - at a time when the legislature has not yet considered it necessary," he says of his 40-year term in office.
Hartl warns: "If something doesn't happen, we are responsible for what gets lost in nature."
The nature photographer wants to hold on.
For example the little bittern - the bird portrait can also be seen in the town hall and is one of Hartl's highlights.
“I set up a photo tent and sit in it for hours - until the birds get used to it.
The animals always have priority, never the photo. "
Stefan Masur is also out early in the morning to take photos.
He relies on macro photography and makes structures visible that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
Rare insects are best captured with the camera at dawn, says the 47-year-old commercial employee.
Masur is not just about mood and light.
Butterflies are by no means as agile in the early morning dew as they are at a later hour: "Even dragonflies in paralysis can be approached within a few centimeters without any problems."
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For this snapshot of a bittern, Andreas Hartl lay in wait for hours in a photo tent.
© Andreas Hartl
Masur's photographic highlight in the exhibition: an aerial view of the Geislbachtal near Esterndorf.
“It's something new for me to take photos with a drone,” enthuses the native of Traunreut and an enthusiastic Wahl-Dorfener.
“As a result of the renaturation, the Isen meanders through the valley.
The lighting mood has something very special. "
The nature conservationists and photographers Hartl and Masur got to know each other at the local branch of the State Association for Bird Protection, the initiator of the exhibition: "We have the same photographic interests, exchange ideas and love nature."
MICHAELE HESKE
