Name: Levi Fitze
Picture title: Beautiful world
Category: Youth
Nationality: Switzerland
Occupation: I’m doing an apprenticeship in a photo store. My work there isn’t focused on wildlife photography, so I try to go out as often as possible at the weekends.
Technical information
Camera: Alpha 7R IV
Lens: FE 200–600 mm F5,6–6,3 G OSS
EXIF: 1/8000s, f/10 (-3.0 e/v), ISO 100
Accessories: None
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Levi Fitze | Beautiful world
Name: Levi Fitze
Picture title: Beautiful world
Category: Youth
Nationality: Switzerland
Occupation: I’m doing an apprenticeship in a photo store. My work there isn’t focused on wildlife photography, so I try to go out as often as possible at the weekends.
Technical information
Camera: Alpha 7R IV
Lens: FE 200–600 mm F5,6–6,3 G OSS
EXIF: 1/8000s, f/10 (-3.0 e/v), ISO 100
Accessories: None
Levi Fitze says:
A young Alpine Ibex strolls dreamily across an alpine meadow. The flowers in the foreground and the sun breaking through the clouds in the background give this image something unique. It shows the beauty of our nature and the carefree life that this young Ibex is living during the warm summer months. I’ve been following the Alpine Ibex several times into his beautiful habitat in the Swiss Mountains and I almost always get rewarded with fantastic encounters with these massive animals. As usual I spent the night in a mountain bivouac to photograph in the morning and evening hours. The situation this evening was just perfect. I was already happy with the nice flowers, when suddenly the sun broke through the clouds and a beautiful backlight situation was created.
About Levi Fitz:
Switzerland
Levi lives in Sankt-Gallen (Switzerland), close to the Alpstein mountain range. From his early childhood he was interested in birds. At the age of 10 birdwatching totally got a grip on him when he attended a presentation about birdwatching, followed by a birdwatching trip the next day. During that weekend he realized that many people were interested in birds. He joined a group of young birdwatchers and started to go on excursions more often. He put so much effort and time in birdwatching that his parents every now and then had to remind him that school was also important. At the age of twelve things changed when he got his first camera and began taking photos of birds. This gradually turned him from twitcher into nature photographer and after two years photography became his main interest.