September 2011, click on the picture for large version.

After all these years finally some landscapes with flowering heather I'm happy with. In the past years I've struggled to get the right circumstances all together. Two years ago the heather beetle devastated the heather and turned it into ugly colorless dead plants during the flowering period also. This year wasn't also much promising in the area that I would normally visit. The heather was still not completely recovered from the heather beetle outbreak and suffered too much from the draught earlier this year. I had to do research all over again. Special thanks to nature photographer Heike Odermatt who has helped me to find the right spot in time.