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