A mallard drake leaps vertically into the air with its ventral side in front of the camera, its bill almost touching the sun. Meanwhile, its female swims in the crystal-clear water of the spring-like Ferchensee in the Bavarian Alps, above Mittenwald, with the Wetterstein in the background.

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