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I’ve Been Dreaming Of Visiting Hallstatt, Austria Ever Since I Saw A Picture Of It, Here Are 30 Pics I Took There
To be honest, I've been to lots of European villages, but it was the most truly marvelous and fabulous fairytale place I have ever seen before!
I’ve been dreaming of visiting this magical village ever since I first saw a picture of it, and I knew instantly that I wanted to visit in winter, during Christmas time and finally, I did it!
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My journey as a photographer started in 2008, while I was shooting photos with my Sony Ericsson phone (3-megapixel camera), it was the era of new phones with cameras, and I fell in love with it. '90s guys will understand what it feels like when you upgrade your phone with a colored screen. It was a really impressive year. Then I got my first cyber-shot camera and I realized that I was fully in photography, people were telling me compliments that I was expressing my vision very differently.
I was shooting mostly documentary photos, this was a very different thing for a small boy like me. I was going to social events and places and I was shooting people and their lives. For example, I took pictures of a very ancient tradition of the funeral (called "Svanuri Zari") in Ushguli, Georgia (Ushguli is one of the highest continuously inhabited settlements in Europe, 2,100 meters). I liked telling the stories with a camera, not only with one photo, I liked doing photo series. After some time I started traveling all around the world and mostly I started doing some landscape and nature photography.
Hallstatt is a place I have wanted to visit ever since I first saw a photo of it. You know the one... I have been to many small villages but... Hallstatt is very different with its nature and coziness. As my car was getting closer and closer to Hallstatt, I was so excited. Large blue lakes, grey rocky mountains and the fresh air all around. The atmosphere is unique and you feel very special while walking in the tiny streets of the village. It is like a fairytale on Earth.
Photography is a great tool to show people how you can see the moments, no need for words. Only you can see the world like you do. You are creating the story, you are creating the moment or moment that creates you to the author of itself. There are surely lots of things which nobody would see unless you photographed them. It not only means discovering new places, but it can make you fall in love with somewhere you never even knew existed.
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Photography is the thing that flourishes my life. I can't even imagine life without my cameras. Creative thinking is the process that makes my life more interesting and productive. My future plan is to go to France, the French Riviera and Paris and shoot there!
Looking for someone local or knowledgeable to answer this. My reaction was “Well, that’s a right champion espalier!” and then I wondered if there is any organization there that maintains a registry of “champion” trees (oldest, tallest, most massive, best specimen, etc.) along the lines of what the National Register of Champion Trees has for the US (americanforests.org). Now of course I well know that “espalier” is a horticultural technique and not a “tree” and where I live it is most often applied to climbing roses, but I was just curious about this amazing specimen and the other one shown in this series of photos.
I'm getting antsy seeing those pillows on the window ledge... I cannot bear it if I lose a pillow
It is a fairytale for you - but it is an extreme overtourism-nightmare for the people who live there. Hallstatt, a village of 780 people and basicly only one road is crushed by more the one million visiters per anno. That should not be forgotten and kept in mind by everyone who looks at these beautiful pictures.
Exactly my thoughts too, notice how none of the pics show streets? It was probably insane.
Load More Replies...Please note that none of the photos show the ground, because it's swamped with tourists. In that sense, the pandemic was fabulous. I live in a very touristy place (island in the Mediterranean), and when there was a quasi lockdown, and no tourists were allowed to enter, we visited all those tourist hotspots and there was NOBODY there. it was absolutely wonderful. Yes, it cost 25% of our GDP, and it's killed 15 million people worldwide, but being able to admire the beauty of a place in peace and quiet is terrific.
All the photos from Austria and Switzerland look so amazing but the realist in me wonders are these really so magical wonderlands that is portrayed, because I also see the photos about my country Finland on the internet and those definitely do not represent what most of the finns see in their every day life. Sure there are lots of beautiful places outside the cities but not everything is winter wonderland with aurora borealis showing every night :D
I can tell you, it is really nice. But the town is packed with tourists. That is why OP cropped the street level out of the pictures. It is basically super crowded and it would kill this gorgeous scenery. Nice pictures.
This looks beautiful! Just like where I stayed in Switzerland, surrounded by hills and mountains. But why is it being overrun by tourists? I see that it’s amazing but is there another reason?
https://www.cnn.com/travel/amp/overtourism-frozen-hallstatt-austria/index.html
Load More Replies...No!!! Shut up!! Don't anyone go there!!! I don't want it to be crowded when I go!!!
It is a fairytale for you - but it is an extreme overtourism-nightmare for the people who live there. Hallstatt, a village of 780 people and basicly only one road is crushed by more the one million visiters per anno. That should not be forgotten and kept in mind by everyone who looks at these beautiful pictures.
Exactly my thoughts too, notice how none of the pics show streets? It was probably insane.
Load More Replies...Please note that none of the photos show the ground, because it's swamped with tourists. In that sense, the pandemic was fabulous. I live in a very touristy place (island in the Mediterranean), and when there was a quasi lockdown, and no tourists were allowed to enter, we visited all those tourist hotspots and there was NOBODY there. it was absolutely wonderful. Yes, it cost 25% of our GDP, and it's killed 15 million people worldwide, but being able to admire the beauty of a place in peace and quiet is terrific.
All the photos from Austria and Switzerland look so amazing but the realist in me wonders are these really so magical wonderlands that is portrayed, because I also see the photos about my country Finland on the internet and those definitely do not represent what most of the finns see in their every day life. Sure there are lots of beautiful places outside the cities but not everything is winter wonderland with aurora borealis showing every night :D
I can tell you, it is really nice. But the town is packed with tourists. That is why OP cropped the street level out of the pictures. It is basically super crowded and it would kill this gorgeous scenery. Nice pictures.
This looks beautiful! Just like where I stayed in Switzerland, surrounded by hills and mountains. But why is it being overrun by tourists? I see that it’s amazing but is there another reason?
https://www.cnn.com/travel/amp/overtourism-frozen-hallstatt-austria/index.html
Load More Replies...No!!! Shut up!! Don't anyone go there!!! I don't want it to be crowded when I go!!!