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>Snapshot of a yellow-billed hornbill (Toko) at Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

<p>Opal mining in Coober Pedy, Australia. </p>

<p>Boulders Beach Penguin Colony (Simon's Town), South Africa.</p>

<p>During my photo class, I did a lot of analog photography as well as the development by myself. This set was done in an abandoned publisher's house around 2000/2001. </p>

<p>A brown snake at Litchfield NP, Australia. </p>

<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>

<p>Seoul Incheon Airport, South Korea.</p>

<p>Gullfoss waterfall, located in the canyon of the Hvítá river in southwest Iceland.</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.

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<p>Back in the days in NYC in 2002.<br />Good old analog times with my Canon EOS 50E.</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>Me, myself and I – under the surface.</p>

<p>Volcano Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy.</p>

<p>The lovely bright voice of the robin is a real sign of spring. </p>

<p>Somewhere in Marocco. At some time in the year 2002.</p>

<p>Bethlehem, Palestinian West Bank.</p>

<p>The two stooges at the Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

<p>A sad story: the Freiburg `Herbstmess` during the Corona Pandemic. 2020.<br />Freiburg, Germany.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, the migratory patterns of the storks have changed. This picture was taken in February. </p>

<p>Fans cheering for their club, Real Madrid at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, Spain.</p>

<p>The three stooges of the Swiss alps.</p>

<p>2024, I had the opportunity to do gorilla trekking in Uganda.</p>

<p>The great pyramids of Giza, Egypt.</p>

<p>A giraffe in the South African Savannah, South Africa.</p>

<p>Venice, Italy during lockdown 2020.</p>

<p>I´m such a fan of London, UK. It´s always a pleasure stoping by. </p>

<p>Container Terminal Hamburg, Germany.</p>

<p>05:32 at Kenton-on-Sea, South Africa.</p>

<p>The Stoupa, Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal.</p>

<p>Pre-Corona: Metallica – what a massive show. Letzigrund 2019, Zurich, Switzerland.</p>

<p>A Cheetah mother lets her cubs eat first after a successful hunt of an Impala, South Africa.</p>

<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), 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>

<p>Abandoned stadium in Šiauliai, Lithuania.</p>

<p>Where the Namib hits the Atlantic Ocean, Namibia.</p>

<p>Fullmoon shooting in Arosa, Switzerland.</p>

<p>At the EXPO2020 (Nov 21) in Dubai, UAE.</p>

<p>Grand Central Station, NYC in 2002.<br />Good old analog times with my Canon EOS 50E.</p>

<p> Cristo Redentor Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.</p>

<p>A cemetery in Likpe Bakwa, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>

<p>The ETH Zurich - so far 21 Nobel laureates, two Fields Medalists, two Pritzker Prize winners, and one Turing Award winner have been affiliated with the University.</p>

<p>Me in my hotel room in Pyongyang, 2019, D.P.R.K.</p>

<p>Giardino Garibaldi Palermo, Sicily, Italy.</p>

<p>View from the top of the Rigi, Switzerland.</p>

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<p>A Secretarybird at the Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

<p>The coastline at Barton on Sea, UK.</p>

<p>Old harbor crane in the Hafenmuseum Hamburg, Germany.</p>

<p>A great place to sit, relax and watch people (and of course some art) – the British Museum, London, UK.</p>

<p>Serious soccer game in Hohoe, Voltaregion, Ghana. </p>

<p>A small boy selling boiled eggs at a dancing festival in Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>

<p>Teufelsbrücke, Andermatt, Switzerland.</p>

<p>View on the top of the Cheops Pyramid in Giza, Egypt.</p>

<p>The coastline at the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>

<p>Switzerland in winter.<br />Elgg, Switzerland.</p>

<p>A curious Rock Hyrax at Erongo NP, Namibia.</p>

<p>Abandoned villa in Accra, Ghana. </p>

<p>A Baby-Southern Right Whale (±10-15 tons!) is fooling around in Gansbaai, South Africa. </p>

<p>The Piazza della Rotonda is located close to the Pantheon in<br />Rome, Italy.</p>

<p>Neuschwanstein Castle with Königssee, Germany.</p>

<p>One of the most beautiful birds on earth, a lilac-breasted roller at the Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

<p>The wall on the way to Bethlehem, Palestinian West Bank.</p>

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<p>Istanbul is still growing. Yakuplu, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>

<p>Colorful and beautiful traditional garments Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>

<p>Offenbach(Main) Kaiserlei, Germany.</p>

<p>Magnolias in Zurich, Switzerland.</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>Snapshot Paris Nightlife, France.</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>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>First snow in Zurich in 2018, Zurich, Switzerland.</p>

<p>New Forest National Park, Southampton, UK</p>

<p>Mölltaler Gletscher, Kärnten, Austria.</p>

<p>Thousands of white small jellyfish in Bosporus, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>

<p>Somewhere in a Kasbah in Marocco.</p>

<p>The Sahara Desert at the border region of Algeria and Marocco.</p>

<p>Abandoned Hotel in Athens, Greece.</p>

<p>Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.</p>

<p>Early bird Copacabana snapshot, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.</p>

<p>Maybe I exaggerated a bit with the pink slider in Lightroom... Pretty nice here in Zurich/Bertastrasse.</p>

<p>The Milky way with the Southern star, South Africa.</p>

<p>At the Olifantsbad waterhole at Etosha NP, Namibia.</p>

<p>St. Gotthard pass, 2106 m, Switzerland.</p>

<p>St. George's Chapel (Berschis), Walenstadt, Switzerland.</p>

<p>At the EXPO2020 (Nov 21) the UK Pavilion in Dubai, UAE.</p>

<p>At the DMZ Information (a.k.a. propaganda) Center, D.P.R.K.</p>

<p>Scala dei Turchi, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy.</p>

<p>A red kite is circling over our house in Zurich. As a notoriously impatient person, I am then grateful to be able to have a home office right now.</p>

<p>Abandoned music club in East Amman, Jordan.</p>

<p>Zurich during Corona lockdown, 2020. Switzerland</p>

<p>Moscow metro in 2005, Moscow, Russia.</p>

<p>Please, write me a postcard. :)<br />Athens, Greece.</p>

<p>The villas of Nad Al Sheba in Dubai, UAE</p>

<p>The old Jewish cemetery, Prague, Czech Republic.</p>

<p>Not a shooting star but just as rare to see in the sky at the moment: an airplane. Arosa, Switzerland.</p>

<p>„Palacio de Cristal“ in Madrid, Spain.</p>

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<p>Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria.</p>

<p>The Grossmünster, Zurich, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Kids are always posing when seeing a camera. So great.<br />Accra, Ghana. </p>

<p>Redback spider also known as the Australian black widow is one of the highly venomous spiders in the world.<br />Sydney, Australia.</p>

<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>

<p>The desert takes back the city of Dubai, UAE.</p>

<p>A seductive offer at the roadside somewhere in Ghana.</p>

<p>Mirador Es Colomer in Mallorca, Spain.</p>

<p>A zebra with her calf at the Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

<p>Berlin, Karl-Marx Allee, Germany.</p>

<p>White Turf, St. Moritz, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Young girls discuss their pictures taken in traditional Korean robes in front of Changdeokgung Palace, Seoul, South Korea.</p>

<p>The squad arrives at the Olifantsbad waterhole at Etosha NP, Namibia.</p>

<p>Fooling around with some kids in Hohoe, Ghana.<br />Picture: Mirka Laura Severa </p>

<p>Savety first in Kathmandu, Nepal.</p>

<p>At the beach at Wilderness, South Africa.</p>

<p>Protea sometimes also called sugarbushes, South Africa.</p>

<p>The other way round. <br />Lüneburg, Germany.</p>

<p>Auberge Kasbah Meteorites, Marocco.</p>

<p>Autumn in the Black Forest near Freiburg, the city where I grew up.<br />Freiburg, Germany. </p>

<p>The most southern point of Africa, Kap Agulhas, South Africa.</p>

<p>Staircase in an old Hamburg old town house. Hamburg, Germany. </p>

<p>Scenic flight over the South Atlantic Ocean.</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 place, where I grew up. Freiburg, Germany.</p>

<p>Snapshot of my mother during a Don Giovanni performance at the Vienna State Opera, October 2017, Vienna, Austria. </p>

<p>I‘m grateful that my passion for traveling is already passing on to my children. Here I was with my son, exploring the Sahara, 2024</p>

<p>A sheep on the soccer field while playing a serious match. <br />A fully normal thing in Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>

<p>A short stopover in a random village on the way to Accra, Ghana.</p>

<p>It has not yet been finally discussed whether my dear wife took this picture with my camera, or I... therefore, in case of doubt (and for my own safety): Picture Credits to Seda Sirin and myself.<br />Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

<p>Allotment garden colony. Zurich, Switzerland. </p>

<p>Tremola, St. Gotthard, Switzerland.</p>

<p>The Bosphorus Bridge of Istanbul, Turkey.</p>

<p>In 2013, as co-founder, I was able to bring L`Arbre Switzerland AG on the road. <br />The company was basically focused on the development, production, and of course, the sales of exclusive accessories, such as the L`Arbre d`Or, a – in a special electroplating process – gold-plated bonsai.<br />If you are interested in the product,... please, let me know.</p>

<p>Encounters at the Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

<p>One of the big landmarks in Switzerland - the Landwasser Viaduct. <br />Graubünden, Switzerland.</p>

<p>A chaffinch at lunch. Switzerland.</p>

<p>Leaning Tower of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy.</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 Siberian tiger or Amur tiger is native to the Russian Far East, Northeast China, and possibly North Korea.</p>

<p>Big brother is watching you. <br />Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

<p>Rostock Ritz Desert Lodge at Namib-Naukluft NP, Namibia.</p>

<p>The ancient entrance door of the Çırağan Palace, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>

<p>The Kunsthaus Zürich with the new annex by David Chipperfield, which will be officially opened next year, 2021.</p>

<p>Hallgrímskirkja, Hallgrim's church, Reykjavik, Iceland.</p>

<p>Niyama Private Islands, The Maldives.</p>

<p>King Togbui Ngoryifia Céphas Kosi Bansah with part of his retinue during an official ceremony in Hohoe, Ghana. In 2010 I had the opportunity to visit his tribe in the Volta Region together with him for the first time.</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>Abandoned Theme Park, Muscat, Oman.</p>

<p>Venice during Corona Lockdown 2020, Italy.</p>

<p>Abandoned parking lot in Athens, Greece.</p>

<p>A messy´s storage in Athens, Greece.</p>

<p>The lions square in Ramallah, Palestinian West Bank.</p>

<p>Himalayan vulture (Gyps himalayensis) or Himalayan griffon vulture.</p>

<p>The Sky on a random day in Mallorca, Spain.</p>

<p>Off-road is always big fun, like in the Wadi Rum, Jordan.</p>

<p>The famous Al-Khazneh temple in Petra, Jordan.</p>

<p>The panther chameleon (Furcifer pardalis) is a species of chameleon found in the eastern and northern parts of Madagascar.</p>

On the way to Ouarzazate crossing the Atlas Mountains, Morocco.

<p>Rainforest evening mood somewhere in the Volta Region, Ghana. </p>

<p>Ground Zero, NYC almost a year after 9/11. <br />Good old analog times with my Canon EOS 50E.</p>

<p>Seebrücke/Limmat during Corona lockdown, Zurich, Switzerland. </p>

<p>One of several harbors. Yakuplu, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>

<p>The Kraftwerk Berlin is home to a popular club - the Tresor.<br />Berlin, Germany.</p>

<p>A weber bird building his nest, South Africa.</p>

<p>Women always doing tough jobs without complaining. <br />Also here: Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>

<p>Communication is key. Wadi Rum, Jordan.</p>

<p>3:55 am at Langtang valley, Nepal.</p>

<p>You always know the entrance view from Instagram. <br />Here is what it looks like from the insight. <br />The famous Al-Khazneh temple in Petra, Jordan.</p>

<p>Cairo, Egypt. <br />At the Campus of the German University in Cairo</p>

<p>Two rhinos in the sunset in the South African Savannah, South Africa.</p>

<p>A selfie shadow snapshot in the office, 2020</p>

<p>Pogona (aka. bearded dragon), Australia.</p>

<p>Zurich Seeufer in winter. Switzerland.</p>

<p>Metallica – what a massive show. Letzigrund 2019, Zurich, 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>Rainforest nearby Hohoe, Volta Region Ghana.</p>

<p>At the great pyramids of Giza, Egypt.</p>

<p>Art installation from Ólafur Elíasson at the Kunsthalle Zürich, 2020, Switzerland.</p>

<p>The awesome blossom of Glyzine or Wisterie in Zurich, Switzerland.</p>

<p>Me at the exhibition of Ólafur Elíasson at the Kunsthalle Zürich, 2020, Switzerland.</p>

<p>The Maracana in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.</p>

<p>Sicily, Italy.<br />@Zash Boutique Hotel Sicily.</p>

<p>The Saint Petersburg Mosque is the largest in Europe outside Turkey. St. Peterburg, Russia.</p>

<p>Togbe Cephas Kosi Bansah, King of Hohoe Gbi Traditional Ghana. In 2010 I had the opportunity to visit his Ewe tribe in the Volta Region for the first time. Here he is with his insignia and his official robe (Kente).</p>