unstrut river.
i had two weeks off in november last year in which i spent my time at my parent's place for the first week, before travelling with them to potsdam in the second.
my mom & me shared quite some time together in that week, taking walks around some of my favourite places of my home state. we often visit a part of the unstrut river around the city of sömmerda that i particularly like and that i never visited when i was a child. i don't know why my parents never introduced me to this area, i guess they just weren't interested enough in visiting a place they thought of as mundane. mundane! even though the river's rather small & contemplative here, i don't think it's mundane at all. it is surrounded by willow tress & poplars & it absolutely reminds me of a jungle river sometimes. i am deeply in love with this body of water, and when i think of it the feeling of home sets in immediately.
fortunately my parents finally think of this river differently now as well. they often go for walks there & i hear they absolutely love the tranquility of the river & the nature surrounding it.
well, for the whole of november i couldn't stop using the HDR function on my camera, so please bare with the overdramatic pictures that are about to wash over you. i know it's too much, sometimes, but back then i didn't shoot alternative settings. i think i really liked the effects, especially in a time where there's lots of greys surrounding you and all you want is a dash of colour. looking back now i wish i had tried to photograph things in my usual style, just to see how it really looked & to see the contrast. so, consider this an experimentation phase 😉
gangster rap mom. idk why, but i really like this moody picture.
lines & triangles.
one of the train bridges leading over a particularly torrenty river.
november mood galore.
i really like this phase of late autumn where some trees are about to shed their summer clothing all over the place. to walk through the leaves on the ground, kicking them up with your feet or listening to the crunch you create stepping on them is just something my heart beats faster for.
we watched the sun go down in the most glorious way possible, with lots of orange hues. it had been raining all day, with the exception of the time we did our walk, and when the sun peaked through the thick clouds a last time it was like a little blessing.
i actually love how these sunset pictures turned out, really dramatic & over the top.
bye-bye, lovely unstrut river.
heyda water reservoir
the woods around the water reservoir near tiny village heyda are well-known for an abundance of mushrooms and my parents often drive here to pick some. there are a lot of pines here and very sandy grounds, which is allegedly perfect for the growth of shroomies. it's always a lot of fun to search for fungi, and it kind of gets out of hand fast, as it's so addicting. every time you find one you want to keep looking for more and sometimes you end up with 2 big baskets full of edible awesomeness. on this walk we didn't find a lot ( the time for edible mushrooms is about to end in november, most of the times you just find too old or too poisonous ones ), but we did enjoy our time walking the woods.
the barrier lake looking all lovely & tranquil.
i found a creepy doll arm on the grounds? finding things like that is quite eerie sometimes, haha.
mom wandering through a mossy wonderland.
the concrete dam of the barrage. love the autumnal colours of the reeds on the banks of the barrier lake.
a last view over the lake.
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