A well-trained eye for over 30 years.

I was about 11 years old when I got a used Olympus OM1, and 3 black and white films from my aunty in the mid-80s, I was ultimately enthusiastic about photography itself.
Years later, during my design and communication studies, I found the right professional approach to photography in the obligatory photography classes.
The Olympus eventually became a Canon EOS 50E. Since then, I have been loyal to Canon for over 20 years.
Since 2012, my loving wife's wedding present was a Leica X2, which showed me that there is another league as well in the (photography)-cosmos.
For more than 2 years another toy was added to my toolbox - a Mavic Pro 2 from DJI. Such a fun and great gimmick.

Photography was, is, and will always be the main focus of my leisure time activities just capturing the fleeting moment. This also helps me in my work in the experience economy and marketing in general.

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

<p>In 2007 I crossed the border between Israel and Jordan on foot. <br />This is what no man's land (the area between these two borders) looks like. </p>

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

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

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

EQUIPMENT.

Take a look into my tool-box.

But please don't think that I always carry all this stuff with me. Usually, I limit myself to one camera and - depending on the location - the DJI Mavic Pro 2 drone. The big toys (Canon EOS R6 + lenses) I only take along on explicit journeys or jobs.

Key learning: Good strong lenses are more important than a body. Period.

Cam-Bodies:

Canon EOS R6
DJI Mavic Pro2 + DJI Smart Controller
DJI Osmo Pocket 60p, 4K
Leica X2

Lenses:

Canon R-Mount Adapter
Canon EF 50 mm, f/1.4
Canon EF 35 mm, f/1.4
Canon EF 70 - 200 mm f/2.8 L IS
Canon EF 70 - 300 mm f/4.0-5.6 L IS USM
Canon EF-S 18 - 135mm f/3.5 - 5.6 IS USM
Multi-layer Coated Lens Filter ND4 ND8 ND16 ND32 UV CPL

Tripods:

Manfrotto Stativ Compact Light
Joby GorillaPod 3K Kit

Cases/Bags:

Herschel Rucksack Classic, Little America
Tineer water-resistant DJI Mavic Pro2 drone body Case
Tineer water-resistant DJI Smart Controller Case

Plus a few more photographic toys, tools, and gadgets to have fun with, like my DIY kit of a pinhole camera (wide-angle 6 x 6 – you can see the results at the bw-section) for analog medium format development, several lightboxes, and flashlights, or further filters and converters.

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

<p>During my photo class, I did a lot of analog photography as well as the development by myself. This set was done in an abandoned publisher's house around 2000/2001. </p>

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

<p>Pogona (aka. bearded dragon), Australia.</p>

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

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

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

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

<p>In 2013, as co-founder, I was able to bring L`Arbre Switzerland AG on the road. <br />The company was basically focused on the development, production, and of course, the sales of exclusive accessories, such as the L`Arbre d`Or, a – in a special electroplating process – gold-plated bonsai.<br />If you are interested in the product,... please, let me know.</p>

<p>The Grossmünster, Zurich, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Istanbul is still growing. Yakuplu, Istanbul, Turkey.</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>Venice, Italy during lockdown 2020.</p>

<p>The Piazza della Rotonda is located close to the Pantheon in<br />Rome, Italy.</p>

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

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

<p>Togbe Cephas Kosi Bansah, King of Hohoe Gbi Traditional Ghana. In 2010 I had the opportunity to visit his Ewe tribe in the Volta Region for the first time. Here he is with his insignia and his official robe (Kente).</p>

<p>The Sahara Desert at the border region of Algeria and Marocco.</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>Berlin, Karl-Marx Allee, Germany.</p>

<p>A curious Rock Hyrax at Erongo NP, Namibia.</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>Offenbach(Main) Kaiserlei, Germany.</p>

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

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

<p>Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria.</p>

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

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

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

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

<p>Zurich during Corona lockdown, 2020. Switzerland</p>

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

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

<p>Volcano Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy.</p>

<p>A selfie shadow snapshot in the office, 2020</p>

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

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

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

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

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

<p>A brown snake at Litchfield NP, Australia. </p>

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

<p>Off-road is always big fun, like in the Wadi Rum, Jordan.</p>

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

<p>A messy´s storage in Athens, Greece.</p>

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

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

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

<p>The coastline at Barton on Sea, UK.<span class=

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

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

<p>Opal mining in Coober Pedy, Australia. </p>

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

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

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

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

<p>Fooling around with some kids in Hohoe, Ghana.<br />Picture: Mirka Laura Severa </p>

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

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

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

<p>Snapshot Paris Nightlife, France.</p>

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

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

<p>New Forest National Park, Southampton, UK</p>

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

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

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

<p>Abandoned parking lot in Athens, Greece.</p>

<p>Bethlehem, Palestinian West Bank.</p>

<p>Encounters at the Etosha National Park, Namibia.</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>The squad arrives at the Olifantsbad waterhole at Etosha NP, Namibia.</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>Women always doing tough jobs without complaining. <br />Also here: Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>

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

<p>The other way round. <br />Lüneburg, Germany.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>Pre-Corona: Metallica – what a massive show. Letzigrund 2019, Zurich, Switzerland.</p>

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

<p>Redback spider also known as the Australian black widow is one of the highly venomous spiders in the world.<br />Sydney, Australia.</p>

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

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

<p>Neuschwanstein Castle with Königssee, Germany.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>A chaffinch at lunch. Switzerland.</p>

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

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

<p>One of several harbors. Yakuplu, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>

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

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

<p>Savety first in Kathmandu, Nepal.</p>

<p>Seebrücke/Limmat during Corona lockdown, Zurich, Switzerland. </p>

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

On the way to Ouarzazate crossing the Atlas Mountains, Morocco.

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

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

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

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

<p>A seductive offer at the roadside somewhere in Ghana.</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 highest mountain in eastern Switzerland, the Säntis, even if only 2502m high, but with an exceptional view of the surrounding Alps. </p>

<p>Communication is key. Wadi Rum, Jordan.</p>

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

<p>Seoul Incheon Airport, South Korea.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>A sad story: the Freiburg `Herbstmess` during the Corona Pandemic. 2020.<br />Freiburg, Germany.</p>

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

<p>A small boy selling boiled eggs at a dancing festival in Hohoe, Volta Region, 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>The place, where I grew up. Freiburg, Germany.</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 awesome blossom of Glyzine or Wisterie in Zurich, Switzerland.</p>

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

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

<p>White Turf, St. Moritz, Switzerland.</p>

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

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

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

<p>Abandoned Hotel in Athens, Greece.</p>

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

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

<p>Scenic flight over the South Atlantic Ocean.</p>

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