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Dienstag, 30 Mai 2017 12:12

Bild des Monats Mai - "Sonnenuntergang in Berlin"

Bild des Monats Mai - "Sonnenuntergang in Berlin"

Manchmal muss man einfach an einen bereits bekannten Spot zurückkehren, um ein völlig anderes Bild zu machen als bei einem vorherigen Besuch. Das Bild des Monats im Monat Mai ist vom gleichen Spot aus enstanden wie das Bild des Monas März, zeigt jedoch eine völlig andere Stimmung und gibt euch einen Einblick in diverse Techniken, die ich nutze, um meine Ergebnisse zu erzielen. In diesem Beitrag geht es um die Kombination zweier Aufnahmen, um eine möglichst gleichmäßige Belichtung zu erzielen, ohne dabei auf Techniken wie HDR zurückgreifen zu müssen.


Einführung

Als Landschaftsfotograf ist man inzwischen mehr oder weniger an die Nachbearbeitung gefesselt. Das meine ich überhaupt nicht negativ, im Gegenteil, es macht Spaß mit LR/PS noch das letzte aus den Bildern raus zu kitzeln. Auch wenn natürlich manche Dinge noch spontan im Workflow entstehen, sollte man die groben Schritte der Bearbeitung aber schon beim Aufnehmen des Bildes im Kopf haben. Hinterher irgendwie an den Reglnern schieben bis es passt kann zwar funktionieren, zeugt aber wenig von zielorientiertem Arbeiten. Gleichzeitig ist man als Fotograf aber immer abhängig vom Licht, d.h. man kann zwar zuhause den Spot planen, den Wetterbericht prüfen und die Ausrüstung entsprechend gestalten, aber wenn vor Ort das Licht nicht zu dem passt, was man sich vorgestellt hat, muss man flexibel sein oder es eben sein lassen.


Planung

Ich versuche in der Regel die Aufnahmen so gut es geht vorher zu planen. Gerade bei Sonnenuntergängen ist das aber äußerst schwierig, da kleinste Wolken darüber entscheiden können, ob der Himmel blutrot oder einfach graublau wird. In Berlin hat man im Frühling/Sommer leider oft das Problem, dass in Brandenburg Gewitter ist, während man in der Stadt blauen Himmel vorfindet. Als Resultat hängen am Horizont oft dicke Wolken, die in der Stadt den Sonnenuntergang ruinieren. :D Der Wetterbericht sah aber denkbar gut aus dieses mal, warm, trocken und kleinere Wölkchen am Himmel, perfekte Bedingungen für eine gelungene Aufnahme zum Sonnenuntergang. Mit TPE (hier ein Video von uns dazu) ermittelte ich den Stand der Sonne zum Zeitpunkt des Untergangs, der inzwischen deutlich weiter rechts (vom Spot aus gesehen) liegt, als noch vor 2 Monaten als dieses Bild entstanden ist (logisch, die Tage werden länger ;)).

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Vor Ort

Mit 5DM3, 17-40 f4.0 L, Polfilter und 64x ND-Filter bewaffnet erreichte ich schließlich das Ziel und traf dort direkt auf Mitstreiter. Enttäuscht mussten wir leider feststellen, dass Brandenburg mal wieder zugeschlagen hatte und die gerade untergehende Sonne sich hinter einem schmalen Wolkenband befand. Aber wie hat ein gewisser Herr Jaworkskyj schon gesagt: Oft sind es die 15 Minuten NACH dem Sonnenuntergang, die entscheidend sind. Dies sollte sich auch hier bewahrheiten, nur dass es 15 Minuten gedauert hat, bis es überhaupt wieder brauchbares Licht gab. Die schon hinterm Horizont verschwundene Sonne färbte den Himmel samt Wolken wieder angenehm rot. Für die tiefer stehenden Wolken im Vordergrund reichte es nicht auf Grund des oben erwähnten Wolkenbandes.

Das Helligkeitsgefälle zwischen Himmel und Stadt war inzwischen deutlich größer geworden. Es ist nicht möglich gewesen mit einer einzelnen Belichtung den gesamten Dynamikumfang abzubilden. Natürlich wäre es möglich gewesen ein HDR vorzubereiten mit einer ganzen Belichtungsserie. Dies erschien mir aber auch wieder nicht sinnvoll, da erstens der Himmel gut aussah, wie er war, und zweitens lediglich die Stadt im Vordergrund etwas mehr Licht benötigte. Ich habe mich daher relativ spontan dafür entschieden nur 2 Aufnahmen zu machen, eine für den Himmel, eine für die Stadt und diese später durch simples Maskieren in Photoshop zu kombinieren. Der grobe Bearbeitungsplan stand zu diesem Zeitpunkt aber schon fest, so dass ichh meine Aufnahmen gezielt an meinen Plan anpassen konnte.


Die Rohaufnahmen

Die Ausrüstung viel entgegen aller Erwartungen auch sehr übersichtlich aus. Den ND-Filter habe ich aus mehreren Gründen direkt wieder eingepackt:

  1. Der rote Teil des Himmels war auf Grund der Wolkenlage ohnehin schon "schlierig" genug.
  2. Die kleinen dunklen Wolkenfetzen bieten mir in ihrer Struktur wesentlich mehr Dramatik, als graue Schleier, die nur das rot verdecken.

Auch der Polfilter blieb in der Tasche, denn:

  1. Das Licht traf fast frontal auf die Linse, die Auswirkungen des Polfilters sind dann überschaubar.
  2. Bei der Einstellung, wo er tatsächlich was am Himmel bewegt hätte, wären sämtliche Reflektionen auf dem Wasser weg gewesen. Diese sind mir aber sehr wichtig gewesen, da sie an dieser Stelle noch einmal angenehmes Licht ins Bild bringen und somit eine führende Linie zum Berliner Dom bilden.

Beide Aufnahmen sind im M-Modus entstanden. Die ISO habe ich auf 50 gestellt, Blende 8 für durchgehende Schärfe. Die Aufnahme für den Himmel ist mit 1s Verschlusszeit entstanden, die für die Stadt und die Straße mit 5s. Die perspektive erlaubte 17mm ohne große Verzerrungen, auch weil ich mich bemüht habe, den Fernsehturm nicht an den Bildrand zu quetschen, wo die Verzerrungen am größten sind.

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Die Bearbeitung

Eine erste RAW-Entwicklung habe ich bereits in LR vollzogen. Insbesondere ist mir wichtig gleich am Anfang CAs zu korrigieren. Das 17-40 ist eine schöne Linse, aber man sieht oft deutliche Farbsäume und so ist auch hier der Fernsehturm nicht verschont geblieben. Später lassen sich die CAs sehr viel schlechter korrigieren, da sie durch zusätzliche Filter nicht mehr so eindeutig identifizierbar sind. Daher werden solche grundlegenden Dinge in meinem Workflow gleich am Anfang erledigt. Ansonsten wurde in der ersten Entwicklung lediglich der Kontrast optimiert über eine Kombination aus Tiefen/Lichter und Schwarz/Weiß Reglern, wie ich sie auch in diesem Video beschreibe.

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Maskierung

Alle weiteren Schritte erfolgten dann in Photoshop. Das schwierigste war es eine gute Auswahl zu erzeugen, auf deren Basis dann die Layermaske entstehen konnte, um die korrekt belichtete Stadt in den korrekt belichteten Himmel zu blenden. Ich habe dabei auf die Kanäle zurückgegriffen und auf Basis des Blau-Kanals und Tonwertkorrekturen die grundlegende Auswahl gebaut, die durch etwas Verkleinern und mit weichem Rand perfektioniert wurde. Angewendet auf den Stadt-Layer ergab sich ein bereits ansehnliches Ergebnis.

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NIK ColorEfex

Für etwas mehr Wärme und noch ein wenig Kontrast nutzte ich dann die Nik Color Efex, speziell Warmth/Brilliance und den Detail Extractor. Ich habe mir grundsätzlich angewöhnt den dadurch entstehenden Layer sofort auf 50% Deckkraft zu stellen, um damit den Effekt zu halbieren. Anschließend verlasse ich für mindestens 10 Minuten den Bildschirm und nur wenn ich beim Zurückkehren denke, dass es zu wenig ist, stelle ich die Deckkraft höher. Das verhindert bei mir sehr gut, dass ich es mit den Effekten übertreibe.
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Farbgebung durch Verlaufsumsetzung

Für etwas mehr Lila am rechten Bildrand, der ja sowieso etwas dunkler ausfällt, nutze ich eine Verlaufsumsetzung, die mit einer Layermaske und Gradienten wirklich nur in der Ecke rechts unten angewendet wird. Der Effekt bewirkt, dass die Farbgebung auf der Straße und den hellen Gebäuden deutlich weniger grün wird, was mehr dem Gesamteindruck des Bildes entspricht.
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Schärfen

Danach erfolgte eine Schärfung per Hochpassfilter. Zum Schärfen gibt es ja sehr eigene Philosophien, ich persönlich finde die Hochpassschärfung nach wie vor absolut brilliant, da sie quasi den "Maskieren"-Regler aus Lightroom automatisch beinhaltet. Wichtig auch hier wieder: Mit Bedacht vorgehen, nicht überschärfen!
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Letzter Schliff

Den Abschluss bildete eine weitere RAW-Entwicklung, bei der aber lediglich Teile im Bild per Korrekturpinsel mehr betont wurden. Dies erfolgte mit einem weichen Pinsel, für den die Belichtung um eine halbe Blendenstufe erhöht wurde.
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Abschluss

Wer unseren Blog regelmäßig liest, dem ist vermutlich aufgefallen, dass das Bild des Monats März aus identischer Perspektive gemacht wurde. Damals lag der Fokus aber wesentlich mehr auf fotografischen Effekten, während es dieses mal hauptsächlich um Techniken der Nachbearbeitung ging. Für kommende Beiträge aus dieser Serie werde ich aber wieder auf andere Locations zurückgreifen :)

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  • Kommentar-Link Thomasrainy Freitag, 13 Juni 2025 17:26 gepostet von Thomasrainy

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    Three people have lived in the deserted cathedral in the past two years, with each occupant — an electrician, a sound engineer and a journalist — paying a monthly fee to live in the priest’s quarters.
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  • Kommentar-Link KevinJarty Freitag, 13 Juni 2025 17:21 gepostet von KevinJarty

    President Donald Trump wants to bring back American manufacturing in ways that would reshape the United States economy to look more like China’s. The campaign, which has led to a rapidly escalating trade war with China, has given ample social media fodder to Chinese and American observers alike.
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    Announcing a series of sweeping tariffs in a move dubbed “Liberation Day,” Trump said last week that it will lead factories to move production back to American shores, boosting the U.S. economy after “foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American dream.”
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    In a Truth Social post Wednesday, Trump announced that he is raising tariffs on goods imported from China to 125%, up from the 104% that took effect the same day, due to “the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets.” Higher targeted tariffs on other countries have been paused for 90 days, although the 10% baseline tariff will remain in place for all countries.
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    Meme-makers and Chinese government officials have in recent days begun pointing out the irony of Trump’s tariff-driven manufacturing pivot through AI-generated satire and political cartoons that have percolated online, with many American users boosting the jokes.
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  • Kommentar-Link Ronniephexy Freitag, 13 Juni 2025 17:09 gepostet von Ronniephexy

    Elon Musk stood next to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Friday, but the physical proximity belied a growing philosophical divide between two of the world's most powerful men, resulting in the tech mogul's abrupt announcement that he is departing Washington — without having achieved his goal of decimating the federal government.
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    Trump took a more charitable view of Musk's tenure during a sprawling news conference in which he also declined to rule out pardoning Sean "Diddy" Combs, who is on trial on charges of sex trafficking and other alleged crimes; said he dislikes "the concept" of former first lady Jill Biden being forced to testify before Congress about her husband's mental fitness; and predicted again that Iran is on the cusp of making a deal that would suspend its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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    In a battle of plutocrats against populists, Bannon, a longtime advocate for reducing the size and scope of government, found Musk's methods and policy preferences to be sharply at odds with those of the MAGA movement. So, ultimately, did Musk, who broke with Trump repeatedly on agenda items as narrow as limiting visas for foreign workers and as broad as Trump's signature "big beautiful" budget bill — which Musk belittled for threatening to add trillions of dollars to the national debt.

    “I was, like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decrease it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing," Musk said in an interview with CBS' "Sunday Morning," which will air this weekend.
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    "I love the gold on the ceiling," he said.

    Musk has argued that inertia throttled his efforts to reduce government spending — a conclusion that raises questions about whether he was naive about the challenge of the mission he undertook.

    “The federal bureaucracy situation is much worse than I realized,” he told The Washington Post this week. “I thought there were problems, but it sure is an uphill battle trying to improve things in D.C., to say the least.”

    On Friday, he drew an implicit parallel between American government and the Nazi regime that committed a genocide, invoking the "banality of evil" that Hannah Arendt used to describe the atrocities in Germany.
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  • Kommentar-Link Andrewtup Freitag, 13 Juni 2025 16:24 gepostet von Andrewtup

    Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The water is running out — but not the kind that fills lakes, streams and reservoirs.
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    The amount of groundwater that has been pumped out of the Colorado River Basin since 2003 is enough to fill Lake Mead, researchers report in a study published earlier this week. Most of that water was used to irrigate fields of alfalfa and vegetables grown in the desert Southwest.

    No one knows exactly how much is left, but the study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, shows an alarming rate of withdrawal of a vital water source for a region that could also see its supply of Colorado River water shrink.

    “We’re using it faster and faster,” said Jay Famiglietti, an Arizona State University professor and the study’s senior author.

    In the past two decades, groundwater basins – or large, underground aquifers – lost more than twice the amount of water that was taken out of major surface reservoirs, Famiglietti’s team found, like Mead and Lake Powell, which themselves have seen water levels crash.

    The Arizona State University research team measured more than two decades of NASA satellite observations and used land modeling to trace how groundwater tables in the Colorado River basin were dwindling. The team focused mostly on Arizona, a state that is particularly vulnerable to future cutbacks on the Colorado River.
    Groundwater makes up about 35% of the total water supply for Arizona, said Sarah Porter, director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy at Arizona State University, who was not directly involved in the study.

    The study found groundwater tables in the Lower Colorado River basin, and Arizona in particular, have declined significantly in the last decade. The problem is especially pronounced in Arizona’s rural areas, many of which don’t have groundwater regulations, and little backup supply from rivers. With wells in rural Arizona increasingly running dry, farmers and homeowners now drill thousands of feet into the ground to access water.

    Scientists don’t know exactly how much groundwater is left in Arizona, Famiglietti added, but the signs are troubling.

    “We have seen dry stream beds for decades,” he said. “That’s an indication that the connection between groundwater and rivers has been lost.”

  • Kommentar-Link Stevenadusa Freitag, 13 Juni 2025 15:03 gepostet von Stevenadusa

    Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The water is running out — but not the kind that fills lakes, streams and reservoirs.
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    The amount of groundwater that has been pumped out of the Colorado River Basin since 2003 is enough to fill Lake Mead, researchers report in a study published earlier this week. Most of that water was used to irrigate fields of alfalfa and vegetables grown in the desert Southwest.

    No one knows exactly how much is left, but the study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, shows an alarming rate of withdrawal of a vital water source for a region that could also see its supply of Colorado River water shrink.

    “We’re using it faster and faster,” said Jay Famiglietti, an Arizona State University professor and the study’s senior author.

    In the past two decades, groundwater basins – or large, underground aquifers – lost more than twice the amount of water that was taken out of major surface reservoirs, Famiglietti’s team found, like Mead and Lake Powell, which themselves have seen water levels crash.

    The Arizona State University research team measured more than two decades of NASA satellite observations and used land modeling to trace how groundwater tables in the Colorado River basin were dwindling. The team focused mostly on Arizona, a state that is particularly vulnerable to future cutbacks on the Colorado River.
    Groundwater makes up about 35% of the total water supply for Arizona, said Sarah Porter, director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy at Arizona State University, who was not directly involved in the study.

    The study found groundwater tables in the Lower Colorado River basin, and Arizona in particular, have declined significantly in the last decade. The problem is especially pronounced in Arizona’s rural areas, many of which don’t have groundwater regulations, and little backup supply from rivers. With wells in rural Arizona increasingly running dry, farmers and homeowners now drill thousands of feet into the ground to access water.

    Scientists don’t know exactly how much groundwater is left in Arizona, Famiglietti added, but the signs are troubling.

    “We have seen dry stream beds for decades,” he said. “That’s an indication that the connection between groundwater and rivers has been lost.”

  • Kommentar-Link Robertoignig Freitag, 13 Juni 2025 00:00 gepostet von Robertoignig

    Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned up the sound and found himself unable to look away.
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    “The whole screen exploded,” he said.

    Beutel, a computer engineer specializing in mountain monitoring, had just witnessed a glacier collapse. On May 28, an avalanche of millions of tons of ice and rock barreled down the slope, burying Blatten, a centuries-old village nestled in the valley below.

    Local authorities had already evacuated the village after parts of the mountain had crumbled onto the glacier; a 64-year old man believed to have stayed remains missing.

    But no one expected an event of this magnitude.

    Successive rock avalanches onto the glacier increased the pressure on the ice, causing it to melt faster and the glacier to accelerate, eventually destabilizing it and pushing it from its bed. The collapse was sudden, violent and catastrophic. “This one just left no moment to catch a breath,” Beutel said.
    The underlying causes will take time to unravel. A collapse of this magnitude would have been set in motion by geological factors going back decades at least, said Matthias Huss, a glaciologist at the Swiss university ETH Zurich.

    But it’s “likely climate change is involved,” he said, as warming temperatures melt the ice that holds mountains together. It’s a problem affecting mountains across the planet.

    People have long been fascinated with mountains for their dramatic beauty. Some make their homes beneath them — around 1 billion live in mountain communities — others are drawn by adventure, the challenge of conquering peaks.

    These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, they are becoming much more unpredictable and much deadlier.

    “We do not fully understand the hazard at the moment, nor how the dangers are changing with climate change,” said David Petley, an Earth scientist at the University of Hull in England.

  • Kommentar-Link Timothysog Donnerstag, 12 Juni 2025 22:29 gepostet von Timothysog

    Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned up the sound and found himself unable to look away.
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    “The whole screen exploded,” he said.

    Beutel, a computer engineer specializing in mountain monitoring, had just witnessed a glacier collapse. On May 28, an avalanche of millions of tons of ice and rock barreled down the slope, burying Blatten, a centuries-old village nestled in the valley below.

    Local authorities had already evacuated the village after parts of the mountain had crumbled onto the glacier; a 64-year old man believed to have stayed remains missing.

    But no one expected an event of this magnitude.

    Successive rock avalanches onto the glacier increased the pressure on the ice, causing it to melt faster and the glacier to accelerate, eventually destabilizing it and pushing it from its bed. The collapse was sudden, violent and catastrophic. “This one just left no moment to catch a breath,” Beutel said.
    The underlying causes will take time to unravel. A collapse of this magnitude would have been set in motion by geological factors going back decades at least, said Matthias Huss, a glaciologist at the Swiss university ETH Zurich.

    But it’s “likely climate change is involved,” he said, as warming temperatures melt the ice that holds mountains together. It’s a problem affecting mountains across the planet.

    People have long been fascinated with mountains for their dramatic beauty. Some make their homes beneath them — around 1 billion live in mountain communities — others are drawn by adventure, the challenge of conquering peaks.

    These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, they are becoming much more unpredictable and much deadlier.

    “We do not fully understand the hazard at the moment, nor how the dangers are changing with climate change,” said David Petley, an Earth scientist at the University of Hull in England.

  • Kommentar-Link RobertHex Donnerstag, 12 Juni 2025 21:34 gepostet von RobertHex

    Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned up the sound and found himself unable to look away.
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    “The whole screen exploded,” he said.

    Beutel, a computer engineer specializing in mountain monitoring, had just witnessed a glacier collapse. On May 28, an avalanche of millions of tons of ice and rock barreled down the slope, burying Blatten, a centuries-old village nestled in the valley below.

    Local authorities had already evacuated the village after parts of the mountain had crumbled onto the glacier; a 64-year old man believed to have stayed remains missing.

    But no one expected an event of this magnitude.

    Successive rock avalanches onto the glacier increased the pressure on the ice, causing it to melt faster and the glacier to accelerate, eventually destabilizing it and pushing it from its bed. The collapse was sudden, violent and catastrophic. “This one just left no moment to catch a breath,” Beutel said.
    The underlying causes will take time to unravel. A collapse of this magnitude would have been set in motion by geological factors going back decades at least, said Matthias Huss, a glaciologist at the Swiss university ETH Zurich.

    But it’s “likely climate change is involved,” he said, as warming temperatures melt the ice that holds mountains together. It’s a problem affecting mountains across the planet.

    People have long been fascinated with mountains for their dramatic beauty. Some make their homes beneath them — around 1 billion live in mountain communities — others are drawn by adventure, the challenge of conquering peaks.

    These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, they are becoming much more unpredictable and much deadlier.

    “We do not fully understand the hazard at the moment, nor how the dangers are changing with climate change,” said David Petley, an Earth scientist at the University of Hull in England.

  • Kommentar-Link MartinsAina Donnerstag, 12 Juni 2025 20:33 gepostet von MartinsAina

    Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned up the sound and found himself unable to look away.
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    “The whole screen exploded,” he said.

    Beutel, a computer engineer specializing in mountain monitoring, had just witnessed a glacier collapse. On May 28, an avalanche of millions of tons of ice and rock barreled down the slope, burying Blatten, a centuries-old village nestled in the valley below.

    Local authorities had already evacuated the village after parts of the mountain had crumbled onto the glacier; a 64-year old man believed to have stayed remains missing.

    But no one expected an event of this magnitude.

    Successive rock avalanches onto the glacier increased the pressure on the ice, causing it to melt faster and the glacier to accelerate, eventually destabilizing it and pushing it from its bed. The collapse was sudden, violent and catastrophic. “This one just left no moment to catch a breath,” Beutel said.
    The underlying causes will take time to unravel. A collapse of this magnitude would have been set in motion by geological factors going back decades at least, said Matthias Huss, a glaciologist at the Swiss university ETH Zurich.

    But it’s “likely climate change is involved,” he said, as warming temperatures melt the ice that holds mountains together. It’s a problem affecting mountains across the planet.

    People have long been fascinated with mountains for their dramatic beauty. Some make their homes beneath them — around 1 billion live in mountain communities — others are drawn by adventure, the challenge of conquering peaks.

    These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, they are becoming much more unpredictable and much deadlier.

    “We do not fully understand the hazard at the moment, nor how the dangers are changing with climate change,” said David Petley, an Earth scientist at the University of Hull in England.

  • Kommentar-Link Jamesliaft Donnerstag, 12 Juni 2025 18:33 gepostet von Jamesliaft

    Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned up the sound and found himself unable to look away.
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    “The whole screen exploded,” he said.

    Beutel, a computer engineer specializing in mountain monitoring, had just witnessed a glacier collapse. On May 28, an avalanche of millions of tons of ice and rock barreled down the slope, burying Blatten, a centuries-old village nestled in the valley below.

    Local authorities had already evacuated the village after parts of the mountain had crumbled onto the glacier; a 64-year old man believed to have stayed remains missing.

    But no one expected an event of this magnitude.

    Successive rock avalanches onto the glacier increased the pressure on the ice, causing it to melt faster and the glacier to accelerate, eventually destabilizing it and pushing it from its bed. The collapse was sudden, violent and catastrophic. “This one just left no moment to catch a breath,” Beutel said.
    The underlying causes will take time to unravel. A collapse of this magnitude would have been set in motion by geological factors going back decades at least, said Matthias Huss, a glaciologist at the Swiss university ETH Zurich.

    But it’s “likely climate change is involved,” he said, as warming temperatures melt the ice that holds mountains together. It’s a problem affecting mountains across the planet.

    People have long been fascinated with mountains for their dramatic beauty. Some make their homes beneath them — around 1 billion live in mountain communities — others are drawn by adventure, the challenge of conquering peaks.

    These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, they are becoming much more unpredictable and much deadlier.

    “We do not fully understand the hazard at the moment, nor how the dangers are changing with climate change,” said David Petley, an Earth scientist at the University of Hull in England.

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