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>A great place to sit, relax and watch people (and of course some art) – the British Museum, London, UK.</p>
<p>The Grossmünster, Zurich, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Giardino Garibaldi Palermo, Sicily, Italy.</p>
<p>Grand Central Station, NYC in 2002.<br />Good old analog times with my Canon EOS 50E.</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>Dubai, UAE.</p>
<p>A great place to sit, relax and watch people (and of course some art) – the British Museum, London, UK.</p>
<p>I´m such a fan of London, UK. It´s always a pleasure stoping by. </p>
<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>
<p>Hallgrímskirkja, Hallgrim's church, Reykjavik, Iceland.</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>Old harbor crane in the Hafenmuseum Hamburg, Germany.</p>
<p>Venice during Corona Lockdown 2020, Italy.</p>
<p>Kyanjin Gompa, Langtang, Nepal</p>
<p>Abandoned music club in East Amman, Jordan.</p>
<p>Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.</p>
<p>Yakuplu, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>
<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>
<p>At the great pyramids of Giza, Egypt.</p>
<p>London, UK.</p>
<p>The Saint Petersburg Mosque is the largest in Europe outside Turkey. St. Peterburg, Russia.</p>
<p>At the DMZ Information (a.k.a. propaganda) Center, D.P.R.K.</p>
<p>Colori di Venezia, Italia.</p>
<p>The Pantheon, Rome, Italy.</p>
<p>Moscow metro in 2005, Moscow, Russia.</p>
<p>Offenbach(Main) Kaiserlei, Germany.</p>
<p>Athens, Greece.</p>
<p>Murmansk, Russia.</p>
<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>
<p>CaixaForum Madrid, Spain.</p>
<p>Chewton Glen, New Milton, UK.</p>
<p>Please, write me a postcard. :)<br />Athens, Greece.</p>
<p>Back in the days in NYC in 2002.<br />Good old analog times with my Canon EOS 50E.</p>
<p>Abandoned music club in East Amman, Jordan.</p>
<p>Şile, Turkey.</p>
<p>Madrid, Spain.</p>
<p>Staircase in an old Hamburg old town house. Hamburg, Germany. </p>
<p>Accra, Ghana. </p>
<p>Auberge Kasbah Meteorites, Marocco.</p>
<p>The Piazza della Rotonda is located close to the Pantheon in<br />Rome, Italy.</p>
<p>Volcano Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy.</p>
<p>Dubai, UAE.</p>
<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>
<p>Casino, Monte Carlo, Monaco.</p>
<p>Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.</p>
<p>Prague, Czech Republic.</p>
<p>Athens, Greece.</p>
<p>The Maracana in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.</p>
<p>Zelyonyi Bor, Kazakhstan.</p>
<p>Murmansk, Russia.</p>
<p>The lions square in Ramallah, Palestinian West Bank.</p>
<p>One of the big landmarks in Switzerland - the Landwasser Viaduct. <br />Graubünden, Switzerland.</p>
<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>
<p>The Bosphorus Bridge of Istanbul, Turkey.</p>
<p>Dubai, UAE.</p>
<p>Zurich during Corona lockdown, 2020. Switzerland</p>
<p>Moscow metro in 2005, Moscow, Russia.</p>
<p>At the EXPO2020 (Nov 21) in Dubai, UAE.</p>
<p>One of the big landmarks in Switzerland - the Landwasser Viaduct. <br />Graubünden, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Hamburg Airport, Germany.</p>
<p>I´m such a fan of London, UK. It´s always a pleasure stoping by. </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>Juist, Germany.</p>
<p>Factory farming in Hong Kong.</p>
<p>The famous Al-Khazneh temple in Petra, Jordan.</p>
<p>Personal motivation.</p>
<p>One of several harbors. Yakuplu, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>
<p>Seoul Incheon Airport, South Korea.</p>
<p>Allotment garden colony. Zurich, Switzerland. </p>
<p>Sicily, Italy.<br />@Zash Boutique Hotel Sicily.</p>
<p>Prague, Czech Republic, 2019.</p>
<p>Istanbul is still growing. Yakuplu, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>
<p>Ground Zero, NYC almost a year after 9/11. <br />Good old analog times with my Canon EOS 50E.</p>
<p>Kathmandu, Nepal.</p>
<p>Rag shop 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>„Palacio de Cristal“ in Madrid, Spain.</p>
<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>
<p>Venice during Corona Lockdown 2020, Italy.</p>
<p>Istanbul is still growing. Yakuplu, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>
<p>Venice, Italy during lockdown 2020.</p>
<p>Nkawkaw, Ghana. </p>
<p>Nizza, France.</p>
<p>Madrid, Spain.</p>
<p>Moscow metro in 2005, Moscow, Russia.</p>
<p>Snapshot Paris Nightlife, France.</p>
<p>Ortaköy Mosque Istanbul, Turkey.</p>
<p>On the way to Nizwa, Oman.</p>
<p>Streetlife, Seoul, South Korea.</p>
<p>Abandoned Theme Park, Muscat, Oman.</p>
<p>Early bird Copacabana snapshot, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.</p>
<p>Abandoned Hotel in Athens, Greece.</p>
<p>Factory farming in Hong Kong.</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>Pyongyang, D.P.R.K.</p>
<p>Gansbaai, South Africa.</p>
<p>The Kraftwerk Berlin is home to a popular club - the Tresor.<br />Berlin, Germany.</p>
<p>Athens, Greece.</p>
<p>Container Terminal Hamburg, Germany.</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 old Jewish cemetery, Prague, Czech Republic.</p>
<p>Seoul, South Korea.</p>
<p>Workshop Seoul, South Korea.</p>
<p>At the EXPO2020 (Nov 21) in Dubai, UAE.</p>
<p>Hohoe, Voltaregion, Ghana.</p>
<p>Paris, France.</p>
<p>Fishmarket, Suhar, Oman.</p>
<p>Dubai Marina, UAE</p>
<p>Somewhere in a Kasbah in Marocco.</p>
<p>Sicily, Italy.</p>
<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>
<p>Venice during Corona Lockdown 2020, Italy.</p>
<p>City-Center of Muscat, Oman.</p>
<p>At the EXPO2020 (Nov 21) in Dubai, UAE.</p>
<p>The great pyramids of Giza, Egypt.</p>
<p>„Palacio de Cristal“ in Madrid, Spain.</p>
<p>Kakum-NP, Ghana. </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>Abandoned villa in Accra, Ghana. </p>
<p>CaixaForum Madrid, Spain.</p>
<p>Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.</p>
<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>
<p>The Pantheon, Rome, Italy.</p>
<p>The ancient entrance door of the Çırağan Palace, 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>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</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>Seoul, South Korea.</p>
<p>Jebel Kawr, Oman.</p>
<p>Abandoned parking lot in Athens, Greece.</p>
<p>Barcelona, Spain.</p>
<p>„Palacio de Cristal“ in Madrid, Spain.</p>
<p>Berlin, Karl-Marx Allee, Germany.</p>
<p>Cairo, Egypt. <br />At the Campus of the German University in Cairo</p>
<p>Milano, Italy.</p>
<p>Murmansk, Russia.</p>
<p>Madrid, Spain.</p>
<p>CaixaForum Madrid, Spain.</p>
<p>The Goalie, Kumasi, Ghana. </p>
<p>Bethlehem, Palestinian West Bank.</p>
<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>
<p>Seoul, South Korea.</p>
<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>
<p>View on the top of the Cheops Pyramid in Giza, Egypt.</p>
<p>Rag shop in Athens, Greece.</p>
<p>The great pyramids of Giza, Egypt.</p>
<p>London, UK.</p>
<p>Kathmandu, Nepal.</p>
<p>Athens, Greece.</p>
<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>
<p>The wall on the way to Bethlehem, Palestinian West Bank.</p>
<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>
<p>Cairo Downtown, Egypt.</p>
<p>At the EXPO2020 (Nov 21) the UK Pavilion in Dubai, UAE.</p>
<p>Kaesŏng, D.P.R.K.</p>
<p>Madrid, Spain.</p>
<p>Mallorca, Spain.</p>
<p>Teufelsbrücke, Andermatt, Switzerland.</p>
<p>The Kunsthaus Zürich with the new annex by David Chipperfield, which will be officially opened next year, 2021.</p>
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