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