I usually do not blog about my photography, but everyone who knows me or follows me on Twitter knows that I’ve quite a passion for it. This time I make an exception, since it’s not every day that one of my photos gets published in National Geographic.
The photo below showing the “Lindwurm” (a monument in my home city Klagenfurt) was published in the April 2010 issue of National Geographic Russia. The photo is also available on my Flickr account, where the photo editor of National Geographic Russia originally found it.
Their photo editor contacted me some time ago. They were going to write a story on the Lindwurm in their April 2010 issue on “Fossil Countrymen”. The story is about how the Lindwurm came to be as a monument modeled after an animal skull of a woolly rhinoceros, an extinct mammal originally at home (not only) in Russia. At least, this is what I could translate from the original National Geographic article, which can be seen below.
I’m very happy that my photo was selected for this. Additionally, now I know how my name is written in Russian: МИХАЭЛЬ РАНСБУРГ 
If you want to take a look at my other photos, please visit my Flickr page!
