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