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>New Forest National Park, Southampton, UK</p>
<p>Simon's Town, South Africa.</p>
<p>Mirador Es Colomer in Mallorca, Spain.</p>
<p>The Sky on a random day in Mallorca, Spain.</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>Fullmoon shooting in Arosa, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Coober Pedy, Australia. </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>The great pyramids of Giza, Egypt.</p>
<p>The villas of Nad Al Sheba 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>Dubai, UAE.</p>
<p>View from the top of the Rigi, Switzerland.</p>
<p>The Sahara Desert at the border region of Algeria and Marocco.</p>
<p>Rainforest nearby Hohoe, Volta Region Ghana.</p>
<p>Chäserugg, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Caumasee, Flims, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Seoul, South Korea.</p>
<p>St. Gotthard pass, 2106 m, Switzerland.</p>
<p>St. George's Chapel (Berschis), Walenstadt, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Kumasi Market, Ghana. </p>
<p>Masada at the dead sea, Israel.</p>
<p>Bláa Lónið, Iceland</p>
<p>Sossusvlei, Namibia.</p>
<p>Off-road is always big fun, like in the Wadi Rum, Jordan.</p>
<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>
<p>Kyanjing Gompa, Nepal.</p>
<p>Opal mining in Coober Pedy, Australia. </p>
<p>Niyama, Maldives.</p>
<p>Sardinia, Italy.</p>
<p>Rostock Ritz Desert Lodge at Namib-Naukluft NP, Namibia.</p>
<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, 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>Volcano Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy.</p>
<p>Protea sometimes also called sugarbushes, South Africa.</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>Atlas Mountains, Marocco.</p>
<p>Autumn in the Black Forest near Freiburg, the city where I grew up.<br />Freiburg, Germany.  </p>
<p>Abandoned Theme Park, Muscat, Oman.</p>
<p>The other way round. <br />Lüneburg, Germany.</p>
<p>Rhône Glacier, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>
<p>View from the top of the Rigi, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Flumserberg, Switzerland.</p>
<p>The coastline at Barton on Sea, UK.</p>
<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</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>Roundabout in Dubai, UAE</p>
<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>
<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>
<p>Zurich during Corona lockdown, 2020. Switzerland</p>
<p>One of the big landmarks in Switzerland - the Landwasser Viaduct. <br />Graubünden, Switzerland.</p>
<p>The Milky way with the Southern star, South Africa.</p>
<p>Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>
<p>The villas of Nad Al Sheba in Dubai, UAE.</p>
<p>Campsite at Damaraland, Namibia.</p>
<p>Langtang, Nepal</p>
<p>First snow in Zurich in 2018, Zurich, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Coober Pedi, Australia.</p>
<p>Kaesŏng, D.P.R.K.</p>
<p>Venice during Corona Lockdown 2020, Italy.</p>
<p>Jebel Kawr, Oman.</p>
<p>Maybe I exaggerated a bit with the pink slider in Lightroom... Pretty nice here in Zurich/Bertastrasse.</p>
<p>Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.</p>
<p>3:55 am at Langtang valley, Nepal.</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>Seoul, South Korea.</p>
<p>Walvis Bay, Namibia.</p>
<p>Fishmarket, Suhar, Oman.</p>
<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>
Adalaide, Australia
<p>One of several harbors. Yakuplu, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>
<p>Caumasee, Flims, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Niyama Private Islands, Maldives.</p>
<p>Roundabout in Dubai, UAE </p>
<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>
<p>Serious soccer game in Hohoe, Voltaregion, Ghana. </p>
<p>Teufelsbrücke, Andermatt, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>
<p>The famous Al-Khazneh temple in Petra, Jordan.</p>
<p>Kyanjing Gompa, Langtang, Nepal</p>
<p>Niyama Private Islands, Maldives</p>
<p>Pelican at Walvis Bay, Namibia.</p>
<p>Istanbul is still growing. Yakuplu, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>
<p>Switzerland in winter.<br />Elgg, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Niyama, Maldives.</p>
<p>Erongo NP, Namibia.</p>
<p>View on the top of the Cheops Pyramid in Giza, Egypt.</p>
<p>Tällistock, Switzerland.</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>Allotment garden colony. Zurich, Switzerland. </p>
<p>Arosa, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Arosa/Lenzerheide, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Berlin Treptow, Germany.</p>
<p>Marina di Pisa. Tuscany, Italy.</p>
<p>The awesome blossom of Glyzine or Wisterie in Zurich, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>
<p>Litchfield NP, Australia. </p>
<p>View from the Siegessäule to the Tiergarten and the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany. </p>
<p>Mirador Es Colomer in Mallorca, Spain.</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>Not a shooting star but just as rare to see in the sky at the moment: an airplane. Arosa, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Rainforest evening mood somewhere in the Volta Region, 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>Litchfield NP, Australia. </p>
<p>Volcano Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy.</p>
<p>Arosa, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Two rhinos in the sunset in the South African Savannah, South Africa.</p>
<p>Wadi Rum, Jordan.</p>
<p>Evening mood in the Etosha National Park, Namibia.</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>Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.</p>
<p>Kyanjin Ri, Langtang, Nepal</p>
<p>Pyongyang, D.P.R.K.</p>
<p>05:32 at Kenton-on-Sea, South Africa.</p>
<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>
<p>Tremola, St. Gotthard, Switzerland.</p>
<p>The most southern point of Africa, Kap Agulhas, South Africa.</p>
<p>Container Terminal Hamburg, Germany.</p>
<p>Dubai, UAE.</p>
<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>
<p>Langtang NP, Nepal.</p>
<p>Wadi Rum, Jordan.</p>
<p>A cemetery in Likpe Bakwa, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>
<p>Giardino Garibaldi Palermo, Sicily, Italy.</p>
<p>Scenic flight over the South Atlantic Ocean.</p>
<p>A sad story: the Freiburg `Herbstmess` during the Corona Pandemic. 2020.<br />Freiburg, Germany.</p>
<p>Venice during Corona Lockdown 2020, Italy.</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>
On the way to Ouarzazate crossing the Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
<p>At the great pyramids of Giza, Egypt.</p>
<p>St. Gotthard, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>
<p>Mölltaler Gletscher, Kärnten, Austria.</p>
<p>St. Gotthard, Switzerland.</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>Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria.</p>
<p>Niyama, Maldives.</p>
<p>The great pyramids of Giza, Egypt.</p>
<p>Tällistock, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.</p>
<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>
<p>The coastline at the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>
<p>Wrocław (Breslau), Polska.</p>
<p>Oryx at Damaraland, Namibia.</p>
<p>Magnolias in Zurich, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Niyama, Maldives.</p>
<p>Autumn in the Black Forest near Freiburg, the city where I grew up.<br />Freiburg, Germany.  </p>
<p>The place, where I grew up. Freiburg, Germany.</p>
<p>Waldhessen, Germany.</p>
<p>The desert takes back the city of Dubai, UAE.</p>
<p>One of the big landmarks in Switzerland - the Landwasser Viaduct. <br />Graubünden, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Gullfoss waterfall, located in the canyon of the Hvítá river in southwest Iceland.</p>
<p>Auberge Kasbah Meteorites, Marocco.</p>
<p>At the beach at Wilderness, South Africa.</p>
<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>
<p>St. Gotthard, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>
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