“Bavarian Alpine Foreland: Homage to a Landscape” is the name of a photo exhibition that is well worth seeing and is currently on view at the Center for Environment and Culture.
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- The pictures are from the biologist and photographer Olaf Broders, who lives in Penzberg.
“I've always been passionate about nature.
As soon as I could crawl and run, I began to watch what was crawling and fleeing, ”recalls Broders, who grew up in Bautzen and was allowed to move to Germany with his parents in the early 1980s.
Broders spent his other youth in Rosenheim.
There he discovered his joy in photography.
Broders never took a photography course
With one of his father's old cameras, he went looking for motifs in nature.
“I've never taken a photography course,” says Broders.
“I did all of this self-taught.” He submitted his photos to competitions in order to receive an objective assessment of their quality.
The confirmation could not have been more positive: Broders was awarded, among other things, at the "Wildlife Photographer of the Year", the world's largest competition for nature photography.
"Then I knew: Okay, I'm good enough."
Broders studied biology and now lives with his family in Penzberg, where he works in pharmaceutical research for Roche.
He takes photos as a hobby.
"For a good reason: I don't have to constantly have to submit new, better pictures that can be sold."
Searching for motifs in the region - "This is how I can adjust to the weather"
With nature on the doorstep, Broders likes to look for motifs in the region.
“So I can adjust to the weather immediately and always adjust the mood that I need for the picture.
And I know the landscape very well because I move around in it a lot, be it on trips with the family or on my bike tours.
As a nature and animal photographer, he basically has to plan long waiting times until exactly what he wants comes in front of his lens, so Broders goes on a photo tour alone.
Because sometimes it not only takes hours, but even days.
"You have to be completely inconspicuous and camouflage yourself well."
The photographer waited weeks for a kingfisher
Broders waited weeks for the spectacular picture of a kingfisher that can be seen in the exhibition. “I happened to hear a kingfisher on a bike tour in Schönmühl,” he says. Several attempts followed to get the shy bird in front of the camera. When that finally happened, the photographer was extremely lucky: “He sat there for a full five minutes and even turned.” Broders took 30 pictures - and at such a moment he knows why he has to wait forever.
An equally spectacular photo shows a common buzzard approaching for landing.
A golden eagle captured in full majesty has the caption “Nothing escapes this eye”.
Such lines are attached to almost all photos.
They come from celebrities like Albert Schweitzer and Reinhold Messner or are borrowed from the Volksgut.
The photo of a young tiger cat that Broders took lying in the grass is commented on by Leonardo da Vinci's saying “The cat is nature's masterpiece”.
Photos show which masterpieces nature has created
A pair of swans in the fog, a dragonfly in its splendor of colors, a grasshopper on a bright pink blossom, a stream in the forest or a view of the treetops from below show which masterpieces nature has created.
Broders' message to the viewer is: “We have to preserve nature as the basis of our life!
The regenerative capacity of the planet is being overused.
We live on credit, that can't go well forever.
Countermeasures are required.
Because there is a lot of talk - but too little is done. "
Further information:
The exhibition can be seen until January 9, 2022 in the hallway of the ZUK adult education (1st floor of the central risalit in Maierhof) and is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is free.
The current corona protection regulations apply.
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