<p>Kingfisher, Switzerland, 2021</p>

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<p>Kingfisher, Switzerland, 2021.</p>

MOTIVATION.

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Waldhessen, Germany.

<p>At the 'Olifantsbad', Etosha NP, Namibia.</p>

<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>

<p>Colorful and beautiful traditional garments Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>

<p>Early bird Copacabana snapshot, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.</p>

<p>Switzerland in winter.<br />Elgg, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>

<p>Abandoned stadium in Šiauliai, Lithuania.</p>

<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>

<p>Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.</p>

<p>Palma de Mallorca, Spain.</p>

<p>View from the Cessna. <br />The colorful Salt Fields at the Skeleton Coast, Namibia.</p>

<p>Old harbor crane in the Hafenmuseum Hamburg, Germany.</p>

<p>The Saint Petersburg Mosque is the largest in Europe outside Turkey. St. Peterburg, Russia.</p>

<p>One of the most beautiful birds on earth, a lilac-breasted roller at the Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

<p>Serious soccer game in Hohoe, Voltaregion, Ghana. </p>

<p>Sirius - the brightest star in our solar system shines above the Swiss Alps. The clear starry sky allows the beautiful scene of light and shadow on the mountain peaks. Arosa, Switzerland.</p>

<p>You always know the entrance view from Instagram. <br />Here is what it looks like from the insight. <br />The famous Al-Khazneh temple in Petra, Jordan.</p>

<p>The most southern point of Africa, Kap Agulhas, South Africa.</p>

<p>The old Jewish cemetery, Prague, Czech Republic.</p>

<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>

<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>

<p>Snapshot of a yellow-billed hornbill (Toko) at Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

A curious fellow at the Etosha NP, Nambia.

<p>At the EXPO2020 (Nov 21) in Dubai, UAE.</p>

<p>A giraffe in the South African Savannah, South Africa.</p>

<p>Feathers of a white peacock.</p>

<p>Hohoe, Voltaregion, Ghana.</p>

<p>Auberge Kasbah Meteorites, Marocco.</p>

<p>„Palacio de Cristal“ in Madrid, Spain.</p>

<p>I´m such a fan of London, UK. It´s always a pleasure stoping by. </p>

<p>London, UK.</p>

<p>Mirador Es Colomer in Mallorca, Spain.</p>

<p>A weber bird building his nest, South Africa.</p>

<p>Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau – the Swiss classics.</p>

<p>Madrid, Spain.</p>

<p>Dubai, UAE.</p>

<p>Venice, Italy during lockdown 2020.</p>

<p>Gullfoss waterfall, located in the canyon of the Hvítá river in southwest Iceland.</p>

<p>The Namib desert, Namibia.</p>

<p>Boulders Beach Penguin Colony (Simon's Town), South Africa.</p>

<p>Milano, Italy.</p>

<p>Kathmandu, Nepal.</p>

<p>Dubai Marina, UAE</p>

<p>Pyongyang, D.P.R.K.</p>

<p>Full spring time. Our neighbor's magnolia tree in front of his somewhat difficult (#notaste) wall color, makes the flowers really shine even brighter.</p>

<p>Coober Pedy, Australia. </p>

<p>Art installation from Ólafur Elíasson at the Kunsthalle Zürich, 2020, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Kestrel in Switzerland</p>

<p>Back in the days in NYC in 2002.<br />Good old analog times with my Canon EOS 50E.</p>

<p>Barcelona, Spain.</p>

<p>Hallgrímskirkja, Hallgrim's church, Reykjavik, Iceland.</p>

<p>Coober Pedi, Australia.</p>

<p>Sirius - the brightest star in our solar system shines above the Swiss Alps. The clear starry sky allows the beautiful scene of light and shadow on the mountain peaks. Arosa, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Factory farming in Hong Kong.</p>

<p>Abandoned Theme Park, Muscat, Oman.</p>

<p>Scala dei Turchi, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy.</p>

<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>

<p>Atlas Mountains, Marocco.</p>

<p>Himalayan vulture (Gyps himalayensis) or Himalayan griffon vulture.</p>

<p>The ETH Zurich - so far 21 Nobel laureates, two Fields Medalists, two Pritzker Prize winners, and one Turing Award winner have been affiliated with the University.</p>

<p>Unique mountain scenery of the Churfirsten with a view of Lake Walen, Switzerland.</p>

<p>The Siberian tiger or Amur tiger is native to the Russian Far East, Northeast China, and possibly North Korea.</p>

<p>Ground Zero, NYC almost a year after 9/11. <br />Good old analog times with my Canon EOS 50E.</p>

<p>Murmansk, Russia.</p>

<p>The impressive panorama of the Swiss Alps. Although it has been seen hundreds of times... especially here on Insta,... but still fascinating and beautiful. Arosa, Switzerland.</p>

<p>„Palacio de Cristal“ in Madrid, Spain.</p>

<p>Prague, Czech Republic.</p>

<p>The Milky way with the Southern star, South Africa.</p>

<p>The coastline at the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>

<p>Giardino Garibaldi Palermo, Sicily, Italy.</p>

<p>The panther chameleon (Furcifer pardalis) is a species of chameleon found in the eastern and northern parts of Madagascar.</p>

<p>Tremola, St. Gotthard, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Pelican at Walvis Bay, Namibia.</p>

<p>Istanbul is still growing. Yakuplu, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>

<p>Kyanjing Gompa, Langtang, Nepal</p>

<p>The European lynx.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, not everyone sees the uniqueness of the last remaining wonder of the world. At the Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt.</p>

<p>Thousands of white small jellyfish in Bosporus, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>

<p>Coober Pedy, Australia. </p>

<p>Kaesŏng, D.P.R.K.</p>

<p>Roundabout in Dubai, UAE</p>

<p>Caumasee, Flims, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Staircase in an old Hamburg old town house. Hamburg, Germany. </p>

<p>Allotment garden colony. Zurich, Switzerland. </p>

<p>Pyongyang, D.P.R.K.</p>

<p>At the great pyramids of Giza, Egypt.</p>

<p>Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>

<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>

<p>At the EXPO2020 (Nov 21) in Dubai, UAE.</p>

<p>Kyanjin Gompa, Langtang, Nepal</p>

<p>The villas of Nad Al Sheba in Dubai, UAE.</p>

<p>Niyama Private Islands, The Maldives.</p>

<p>Niyama, Maldives.</p>

<p>Autumn in the Black Forest near Freiburg, the city where I grew up.<br />Freiburg, Germany. </p>

<p>Rostock Ritz Desert Lodge at Namib-Naukluft NP, Namibia.</p>

<p>Ephesos, Turkey.</p>

<p>Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.</p>

<p>Roundabout in Dubai, UAE </p>

<p>Yakuplu, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>

<p>Sossusvlei, Namibia.</p>

<p>Abandoned music club in East Amman, Jordan.</p>

<p>Rainforest nearby Hohoe, Volta Region Ghana.</p>

<p>A Baby-Southern Right Whale (±10-15 tons!) is fooling around in Gansbaai, South Africa. </p>

<p>Jebel Kawr, Oman.</p>

<p>The Lost Place in Mallorca

<p>The Sahara Desert at the border region of Algeria and Marocco.</p>

<p>Fullmoon shooting in Arosa, Switzerland.</p>

<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>

<p>Mölltaler Gletscher, Kärnten, Austria.</p>

<p>Prague, Czech Republic, 2019.</p>

<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>

<p>Kyanjin Ri, Langtang, Nepal</p>

<p>Mirador Es Colomer in Mallorca, Spain.</p>

<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>

<p>Dubai, UAE.</p>

<p>City-Center of Muscat, Oman.</p>

<p>The ETH Zurich - so far 21 Nobel laureates, two Fields Medalists, two Pritzker Prize winners, and one Turing Award winner have been affiliated with the University.</p>

<p>The great pyramids of Giza, Egypt.</p>

<p>The Kraftwerk Berlin is home to a popular club - the Tresor.<br />Berlin, Germany.</p>

<p>Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>

<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>

<p>'Monte Kali' near Heringen, 2020, Germany.<br />A Monte Kali, Kaliberg, or Kalimandscharo is the colloquial term for several slag heaps in Germany, which consists of spoil from potash salt production.</p>

<p>The squad arrives at the Olifantsbad waterhole at Etosha NP, Namibia.</p>

<p>Wrocław (Breslau), Polska.</p>

<p>The place, where I grew up. Freiburg, Germany.</p>

<p>Erongo NP, Namibia.</p>

<p>A small boy selling boiled eggs at a dancing festival in Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>

<p>The Lost Place in Mallorca

<p>View from the Siegessäule to the Tiergarten and the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany. </p>

<p>A cemetery in Likpe Bakwa, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>

<p>Boulders Beach Penguin Colony (Simon's Town), South Africa.</p>

<p>The lions square in Ramallah, Palestinian West Bank.</p>

<p>Gansbaai, South Africa.</p>

<p>Zurich Seeufer in winter. Switzerland.</p>

<p>Red Kite, Switzerland.</p>

St. Pauls Cathedral, UK.<br>Seen from the One New Change Shopping mall.

<p>Barcelona, Spain.</p>

<p>Me at the exhibition of Ólafur Elíasson at the Kunsthalle Zürich, 2020, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Two rhinos in the sunset in the South African Savannah, South Africa.</p>

<p>Please, write me a postcard. :)<br />Athens, Greece.</p>

<p>Fishmarket, Suhar, Oman.</p>

<p>Marina di Pisa. Tuscany, Italy.</p>

<p>Cairo, Egypt. <br />At the Campus of the German University in Cairo</p>

<p>The desert takes back the city of Dubai, UAE.</p>

<p>Abandoned villa in Accra, Ghana. </p>

<p>It has not yet been finally discussed whether my dear wife took this picture with my camera, or I... therefore, in case of doubt (and for my own safety): Picture Credits to Seda Sirin and myself.<br />Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

<p>Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.</p>

<p>Kathmandu, Nepal.</p>

<p>St. Gotthard, Switzerland.</p>

<p>At the EXPO2020 (Nov 21) the UK Pavilion in Dubai, UAE.</p>

<p>Boulders Beach Penguin Colony (Simon's Town), South Africa.</p>

<p>Container Terminal Hamburg, Germany.</p>

<p>Somewhere in Marocco. At some time in the year 2002.</p>

<p>The ancient entrance door of the Çırağan Palace, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>

<p>Litchfield NP, Australia. </p>

<p>A great place to sit, relax and watch people (and of course some art) – the British Museum, London, UK.</p>

<p>Where the Namib hits the Atlantic Ocean, Namibia.</p>

<p>Leaning Tower of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy.</p>

<p>Arosa/Lenzerheide, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, the migratory patterns of the storks have changed. This picture was taken in February. </p>

<p>Fans cheering for their club, Real Madrid at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, Spain.</p>

<p>St. Gotthard, Switzerland.</p>

<p>The villas of Nad Al Sheba in Dubai, UAE</p>

<p>At the EXPO2020 (Nov 21) in Dubai, UAE.</p>

<p>At the DMZ Information (a.k.a. propaganda) Center, D.P.R.K.</p>

<p>Nizza, France.</p>

<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>

<p>Paris, France.</p>

<p>The Lost Place in Mallorca

<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>

<p>The Pantheon, Rome, Italy.</p>

<p>King Togbui Ngoryifia Céphas Kosi Bansah with part of his retinue during an official ceremony in Hohoe, Ghana. In 2010 I had the opportunity to visit his tribe in the Volta Region together with him for the first time.</p>

<p>Şile, Turkey.</p>

<p>Venice during Corona Lockdown 2020, Italy.</p>

<p>The Goalie, Kumasi, Ghana. </p>

<p>Casino, Monte Carlo, Monaco.</p>

<p>Kathmandu, Nepal.</p>

<p>View from the top of the Rigi, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Offenbach(Main) Kaiserlei, Germany.</p>

<p>Kumasi Market, Ghana. </p>

<p>Kids are always posing when seeing a camera. So great.<br />Accra, Ghana. </p>

<p>Paris, France.</p>

<p>Litchfield NP, Australia. </p>

<p>Etosha NP, Namibia.</p>

<p>Sicily, Italy.<br />@Zash Boutique Hotel Sicily.</p>

<p>Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

<p>The Maracana in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.</p>

<p>A great place to sit, relax and watch people (and of course some art) – the British Museum, London, UK.</p>

<p>Venice during Corona Lockdown 2020, Italy.</p>

<p>Walvis Bay, Namibia.</p>

<p>St. Gotthard pass, 2106 m, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Maybe I exaggerated a bit with the pink slider in Lightroom... Pretty nice here in Zurich/Bertastrasse.</p>

<p>Moscow metro in 2005, Moscow, Russia.</p>

<p>CaixaForum Madrid, Spain.</p>

<p>Not a shooting star but just as rare to see in the sky at the moment: an airplane. Arosa, Switzerland.</p>

<p>The lovely bright voice of the robin is a real sign of spring. </p>

<p>Accra, Ghana. </p>

<p>View on the top of the Cheops Pyramid in Giza, Egypt.</p>

<p>Me in my element – entertaining while talking about my passion (a.k.a. job) – at the TH OWL in front of interested architects and other creatives, Detmold, Germany.<br />Picture: Johannes Brückner</p>

<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>

<p>The famous Al-Khazneh temple in Petra, Jordan.</p>

<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>

<p>Abandoned music club in East Amman, Jordan.</p>

<p>Venice with my pinhole camera. </p>
<p>This picture is 1 of 9 (!) pictures I took during my whole stay in Venice in 1999. </p>
<p>I know it sounds silly to take only 9 pictures in total, but the thousands of mobile phone pictures you take nowadays don't look any better. </p>

<p>Tällistock, Switzerland.</p>

<p>The Kunsthaus Zürich with the new annex by David Chipperfield, which will be officially opened next year, 2021.</p>

<p>Snapshot of my mother during a Don Giovanni performance at the Vienna State Opera, October 2017, Vienna, Austria. </p>

<p>Dubai, UAE.</p>

<p>At the Olifantsbad waterhole at Etosha NP, Namibia.</p>

<p>Himalayan vulture (Gyps himalayensis) or Himalayan griffon vulture.</p>

<p>The awesome blossom of Glyzine or Wisterie in Zurich, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>

<p>Arosa, Switzerland.</p>

<p>The panther chameleon (Furcifer pardalis) is a species of chameleon found in the eastern and northern parts of Madagascar.</p>

<p>Oryx at Damaraland, Namibia.</p>

<p>The Bosphorus Bridge of Istanbul, Turkey.</p>

<p>First snow in Zurich in 2018, Zurich, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Young girls discuss their pictures taken in traditional Korean robes in front of Changdeokgung Palace, Seoul, South Korea.</p>

<p>Protea sometimes also called sugarbushes, South Africa.</p>

<p>The three stooges of the Swiss alps.</p>

<p>Personal motivation.</p>

<p>Me in my element, Svalbard 2025</p>

<p>Big brother is watching you. <br />Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

<p>Kids in Accra, Ghana. </p>

<p>Kos, Greece</p>

<p>A zebra with her calf at the Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

<p>On the way to Nizwa, Oman.</p>

<p>Grand Central Station, NYC in 2002.<br />Good old analog times with my Canon EOS 50E.</p>

<p>Somewhere in a Kasbah in Marocco.</p>

<p>05:32 at Kenton-on-Sea, South Africa.</p>

<p>Mallorca, Spain.</p>

<p>Me in my hotel room in Pyongyang, 2019, D.P.R.K.</p>

<p>CaixaForum Madrid, Spain.</p>

<p>Bambi</p>

<p>Grindelwald, Switzerland</p>

<p>Niyama, Maldives.</p>

<p>The great pyramids of Giza, Egypt.</p>

<p>At the beach at Wilderness, South Africa.</p>

<p>The coastline at Barton on Sea, UK.</p>

<p>3:55 am at Langtang valley, Nepal.</p>

<p>Sardinia, Italy.</p>

<p>Waldhessen, Germany.</p>

<p>CaixaForum Madrid, Spain.</p>

<p>Zelyonyi Bor, Kazakhstan.</p>

<p>Kyanjing Gompa, Nepal.</p>

<p>A red kite is circling over our house in Zurich. As a notoriously impatient person, I am then grateful to be able to have a home office right now.</p>

<p>Chewton Glen, New Milton, UK.</p>

<p>Cairo Downtown, Egypt.</p>

<p>The highest mountain in eastern Switzerland, the Säntis, even if only 2502m high, but with an exceptional view of the surrounding Alps. </p>

<p>The two stooges at the Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

<p>Istanbul, Turkey.</p>

<p>Moscow metro in 2005, Moscow, Russia.</p>

<p>Evening mood in the Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>

<p>View from the top of the Rigi, Switzerland.</p>

<p>A short stopover in a random village on the way to Accra, Ghana.</p>

<p>Flumserberg, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>

<p>Colori di Venezia, Italia.</p>

<p>Magnolias in Zurich, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Rainforest evening mood somewhere in the Volta Region, Ghana. </p>

<p>The wall on the way to Bethlehem, Palestinian West Bank.</p>

<p>Madrid, Spain.</p>

<p>Venice during Corona Lockdown 2020, Italy.</p>

<p>Colorful and beautiful traditional garments Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>

<p>Muscat, Oman.</p>

<p>2024, I had the opportunity to do gorilla trekking in Uganda.</p>

<p> Cristo Redentor Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.</p>

A snapshot in the capital Nur-Sultan,<br>formerly known as Astana, Kazakhstan.

<p>Litchfield NP, Australia. </p>

<p>London, UK.</p>

<p>A sheep on the soccer field while playing a serious match. <br />A fully normal thing in Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>

<p>Autumn in the Black Forest near Freiburg, the city where I grew up.<br />Freiburg, Germany. </p>

<p>St. George's Chapel (Berschis), Walenstadt, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Kakum-NP, Ghana. </p>

<p>One of the big landmarks in Switzerland - the Landwasser Viaduct. <br />Graubünden, Switzerland.</p>

<p>The Stoupa, Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal.</p>

<p>Teufelsbrücke, Andermatt, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>

<p>Sicily, Italy.</p>

<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>

<p>Encounters at the Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

<p>Nkawkaw, Ghana. </p>

<p>Langtang, Nepal</p>

<p>The Sky on a random day in Mallorca, Spain.</p>

<p>Litchfield NP, Australia. </p>

<p>One of the big landmarks in Switzerland - the Landwasser Viaduct. <br />Graubünden, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Caumasee, Flims, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Ortaköy Mosque Istanbul, Turkey.</p>

<p>Factory farming in Hong Kong.</p>

<p>A Cheetah mother lets her cubs eat first after a successful hunt of an Impala, South Africa.</p>

<p>I´m such a fan of London, UK. It´s always a pleasure stoping by. </p>

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