Photostream of M. Kniebes.

When I was standing in the kitchen at lunchtime with the window open so that the smell of cooking wouldn’t spread throughout the flat, I spotted a few mushrooms down on the grass in front of the house.

Two ducks are swimming in a sea of duckweed and feeding.

A young fallow deer rests on the autumnal forest floor among beech leaves and moss-covered wood.

A black-and-white photograph of the observatory’s dome, with its standing seam lines, set against a thick blanket of clouds.

A young moorhen balances on a branch over a stretch of water densely covered with duckweed in the floodplain forest, searching for food.

A white hibiscus flower in black and white against a dark background.

An autumn anemone in black and white, photographed from above.

Mallard swimming on a quiet pond at dusk, ringed by concentric ripples in water that reflects green foliage and warm golden light.

Common moorhen with red frontal shield and yellow-tipped bill walking across a meadow of autumn leaves, a blade of grass on its bill.

Head-on close-up of a common moorhen, its dark plumage dissolving into shadow while the red bill stays sharp.