A well-trained eye for over 30 years.

I was about 11 years old when I got a used Olympus OM, 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>Boulders Beach Penguin Colony (Simon's Town), South Africa.</p>

<p>Colorful and beautiful traditional garments Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana. </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>Not a shooting star but just as rare to see in the sky at the moment: an airplane. Arosa, Switzerland.</p>

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

<p>At the EXPO2020 (Nov 21) in Dubai, UAE.</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>Neuschwanstein Castle with Königssee, Germany.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>A sad story: the Freiburg `Herbstmess` during the Corona Pandemic. 2020.<br />Freiburg, Germany.</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 Maracana in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.</p>

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

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

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

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

<p>Bethlehem, Palestinian West Bank.</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>At the Olifantsbad waterhole at Etosha NP, Namibia.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>Abandoned Hotel in Athens, Greece.</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>Two rhinos in the sunset in the South African Savannah, South Africa.</p>

<p>A curious Rock Hyrax at Erongo NP, Namibia.</p>

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

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

<p>Istanbul is still growing. Yakuplu, Istanbul, Turkey.</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>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 other way round. <br />Lüneburg, Germany.</p>

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

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

<p>Grand Central Station, NYC in 2002.<br />Good old analog times with my Canon EOS 50E.</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>View from the top of the Rigi, Switzerland.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>A seductive offer at the roadside somewhere in Ghana.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>Allotment garden colony. Zurich, Switzerland. </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>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>Rostock Ritz Desert Lodge at Namib-Naukluft NP, Namibia.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>Mirador Es Colomer in Mallorca, Spain.</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>Old harbor crane in the Hafenmuseum Hamburg, Germany.</p>

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

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

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

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

<p>Sicily, Italy.<br />@Zash Boutique Hotel Sicily.</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>Unfortunately, not everyone sees the uniqueness of the last remaining wonder of the world. At the Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>Berlin, Karl-Marx Allee, Germany.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>Ground Zero, NYC almost a year after 9/11. <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>At the EXPO2020 (Nov 21) the UK Pavilion in Dubai, UAE.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>Thousands of white small jellyfish in Bosporus, Istanbul, Turkey.</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>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>Abandoned parking lot in Athens, Greece.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>Me, myself and I – under the surface.</p>

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

<p>Women always doing tough jobs without complaining. <br />Also here: Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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