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On the short walk between the cable car and cog train down at Eisbee I was drawn to these lone frosted trees and plants – they were just calling out to make some images :).

Twisted Tales

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 300 mm, 1/640 sec at f/5.6, ISO 3200

Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger. To see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer click any of the images.

Whitewashed

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 230 mm, 1/250 sec at f/8, ISO 1100

It’s always interesting to discover just what can make an interesting image – even these few frost covered plants in a car park between a cable car and train station.

Frosted

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 300 mm, 1/320 sec at f/5.6, ISO 320

Snow White

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 300 mm, 1/320 sec at f/5.6, ISO 640

One final look before leaving this amazing place.

Zugspitze Long View

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 68 mm, 1/250 sec at f/9, ISO 100 x 11 Frames

Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger. To see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer click any of the images.

Shadowlines

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 135 mm, 1/400 sec at f/8, ISO 100

A stitched panorama of the view from the top looking southward over the ski basin below. To the left the golden cross marking the highest point (2,962m) around to some of the viewing platforms on the right.

Skiers Paradise

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28 mm, 1/800 sec at f/9, ISO 100 x 9 Frames

Meringue

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 250 mm, 1/160 sec at f/9, ISO 100

Finally time for us to be leaving Zugspitze – the end of a fantastic day trip out.

Down

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28 mm, 1/60 sec at f/8, ISO 160

To the south of the peak in the valley below lies the Ski resort of Zugspitzeplatt (the highest in Germany with 20km of pistes on the glacier). It’s also where the cog train ends (had we stayed on that rather than switch to the much faster cable car to reach the peak).

Downhill

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 68 mm, 1/160 sec at f/9, ISO 100

We took the short cable car ride from the top down to the resort so the girls could go out and play in the snow (and make their first ever snowman :)).

Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger. To see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer click any of the images.

Zugspitzeplatt

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28 mm, 1/160 sec at f/8, ISO 100

X Factor

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 98 mm, 1/125 sec at f/8, ISO 100

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 62 mm, 1/500 sec at f/6.3, ISO 100

Maypole

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 170 mm, 1/320 sec at f/8, ISO 100

Then it was on the cable car back to the peak so we could catch the new Seilbahn Zugspitze back down on the other side to begin our return back to Munich.

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 78 mm, 1/320 sec at f/8, ISO 100

It wasn’t all just looking at the amazing view (tho it was very spectacular).

2950m

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 42 mm, 1/500 sec at f/7.1, ISO 100

It was also a good time for some photographs with the girls enjoying their first time experiencing snow.

Snow Balls

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 44 mm, 1/500 sec at f/5.6, ISO 100

Stairs with a View

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28 mm, 1/100 sec at f/8, ISO 100

The Summit

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 44 mm, 1/250 sec at f/8, ISO 100

Chills

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28 mm, 1/200 sec at f/8, ISO 100

Well the top of Germany at least – and certainly on land as high as any of us had ever been before… It certainly felt like we were at the top of the world.

The view was staggering and these small scale stitched panoramas of the view from the top of the mountain don’t really do it justice.

Seilbahn Zugspitze

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28 mm, 1/320 sec at f/9, ISO 100 x 6 Frames

The first is a view of the new cable car terminal with lake Eibsee down the bottom on the left (where the cable car starts) and the village of Garmisch-Partenkirchen down the bottom in the middle.

Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger. To see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer click any of the images.

Eibsee

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28 mm, 1/250 sec at f/10, ISO 100 x 8 Frames

This second panorama is further to the left with Eibsee in the middle and a view more north (towards Munich and the rest of Bavaria).

Austrian Views

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28 mm, 1/320 sec at f/10, ISO 100 x 8 Frames

This view is westward into Austria and gives you a glimpse of those amazing mountain ranges.

Lastly here’s a view with a much longer focal length to get in really tight on those peaks. This 22 Frame stitched panorama shows a roughly 180 degree view from south to north.

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 122 mm, 1/250 sec at f/9, ISO 100 x 22 Frames