Mecklenburg-West Pomerania - approx. 23,000 sparsely populated square kilometres in the north-east of Germany - a land full of vastness and light, endless beaches, deep mysterious forests, quiet moors and fractures, a unique flora and fauna, for centuries a place of longing for poets and painters, a land full of contrasts and contradictions and home to 3 dozen nature photographers who have found each other in Regional Group IX of the German Society for Nature Photograpy and look back on a long tradition.