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>The villas of Nad Al Sheba in Dubai, UAE</p>
<p>One of several harbors. Yakuplu, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>
<p>The famous Al-Khazneh temple in Petra, Jordan.</p>
<p>Walvis Bay, Namibia.</p>
<p>Seoul, South Korea.</p>
<p>At the beach at Wilderness, South Africa.</p>
<p>Teufelsbrücke, Andermatt, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Rainforest nearby Hohoe, Volta Region Ghana.</p>
<p>Auberge Kasbah Meteorites, Marocco.</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>

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