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