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>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>
<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>
<p>Two rhinos in the sunset in the South African Savannah, South Africa.</p>
<p>Kyanjing Gompa, Langtang, Nepal</p>
<p>Auberge Kasbah Meteorites, Marocco.</p>
<p>Not a shooting star but just as rare to see in the sky at the moment: an airplane. Arosa, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Gullfoss waterfall, located in the canyon of the Hvítá river in southwest Iceland.</p>
<p>The Sky on a random day in Mallorca, Spain.</p>
<p>The most southern point of Africa, Kap Agulhas, 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>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>
<p>Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>
<p>Chäserugg, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Berlin Treptow, Germany.</p>
<p>05:32 at Kenton-on-Sea, South Africa.</p>
<p>Arosa/Lenzerheide, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Arosa, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Langtang NP, Nepal.</p>
<p>View on the top of the Cheops Pyramid in Giza, Egypt.</p>
<p>Venice during Corona Lockdown 2020, Italy.</p>
<p>Wrocław (Breslau), Polska.</p>
<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>
<p>The villas of Nad Al Sheba in Dubai, UAE.</p>
<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>
<p>Coober Pedi, Australia.</p>
<p>Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.</p>
<p>Teufelsbrücke, Andermatt, Switzerland.</p>
<p>View from the top of the Rigi, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Roundabout in Dubai, UAE</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 highest mountain in eastern Switzerland, the Säntis, even if only 2502m high, but with an exceptional view of the surrounding Alps. </p>
<p>Maybe I exaggerated a bit with the pink slider in Lightroom... Pretty nice here in Zurich/Bertastrasse.</p>
<p>Sossusvlei, Namibia.</p>
<p>View from the Siegessäule to the Tiergarten and the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany. </p>
<p>Arosa, Switzerland.</p>
<p>View from the top of the Rigi, Switzerland.</p>
<p>The coastline at the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>
<p>Tällistock, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Oryx at Damaraland, Namibia.</p>
<p>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>The Milky way with the Southern star, South Africa.</p>
<p>One of several harbors. Yakuplu, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>
<p>Autumn in the Black Forest near Freiburg, the city where I grew up.<br />Freiburg, Germany.  </p>
<p>Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.</p>
<p>Serious soccer game in Hohoe, Voltaregion, Ghana. </p>
<p>Zurich during Corona lockdown, 2020. Switzerland</p>
<p>Rainforest evening mood somewhere in the Volta Region, Ghana. </p>
<p>Seoul, South Korea.</p>
<p>St. Gotthard, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Langtang, Nepal</p>
<p>Masada at the dead sea, Israel.</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>Kaesŏng, D.P.R.K.</p>
<p>The villas of Nad Al Sheba in Dubai, UAE</p>
<p>Caumasee, Flims, 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>Flumserberg, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Bláa Lónið, Iceland</p>
<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, 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>Kyanjin Ri, Langtang, Nepal</p>
<p>Giardino Garibaldi Palermo, Sicily, Italy.</p>
<p>Istanbul is still growing. Yakuplu, Istanbul, Turkey.</p>
<p>Campsite at Damaraland, Namibia.</p>
<p>Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>
<p>Fullmoon shooting in Arosa, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Caumasee, Flims, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Tällistock, Switzerland.</p>
Adalaide, Australia
<p>At the great pyramids of Giza, Egypt.</p>
On the way to Ouarzazate crossing the Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
<p>Container Terminal Hamburg, Germany.</p>
<p>Wadi Rum, Jordan.</p>
<p>Scenic flight over the South Atlantic Ocean.</p>
<p>Switzerland in winter.<br />Elgg, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Rhône Glacier, Switzerland.</p>
<p>St. Gotthard, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Evening mood in the Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>
<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>
<p>The other way round. <br />Lüneburg, Germany.</p>
<p>Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>
<p>Tremola, St. Gotthard, Switzerland.</p>
<p>The great pyramids of Giza, Egypt.</p>
<p>Pelican at Walvis Bay, Namibia.</p>
<p>Atlas Mountains, Marocco.</p>
<p>Niyama Private Islands, Maldives</p>
<p>Allotment garden colony. Zurich, Switzerland. </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>Protea sometimes also called sugarbushes, South Africa.</p>
<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>
<p>The desert takes back the city of Dubai, UAE.</p>
<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>
<p>Jebel Kawr, Oman.</p>
<p>Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.</p>
<p>The Sahara Desert at the border region of Algeria and Marocco.</p>
<p>Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria.</p>
<p>Niyama, Maldives.</p>
<p>The ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>
<p>Litchfield NP, Australia. </p>
<p>Off-road is always big fun, like in the Wadi Rum, Jordan.</p>
<p>Niyama, Maldives.</p>
<p>Abandoned Theme Park, Muscat, Oman.</p>
<p>New Forest National Park, Southampton, UK</p>
<p>The coastline at Barton on Sea, UK.</p>
<p>Rostock Ritz Desert Lodge at Namib-Naukluft NP, Namibia.</p>
<p>Niyama, Maldives.</p>
<p>St. Gotthard, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Autumn in the Black Forest near Freiburg, the city where I grew up.<br />Freiburg, Germany.  </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>St. George's Chapel (Berschis), Walenstadt, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Mirador Es Colomer in Mallorca, Spain.</p>
<p>A sad story: the Freiburg `Herbstmess` during the Corona Pandemic. 2020.<br />Freiburg, Germany.</p>
<p>The famous Al-Khazneh temple in Petra, Jordan.</p>
<p>Fishmarket, Suhar, Oman.</p>
<p>Walvis Bay, Namibia.</p>
<p>Simon's Town, South Africa.</p>
<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>
<p>Mirador Es Colomer in Mallorca, Spain.</p>
<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</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>Niyama Private Islands, Maldives.</p>
<p>Magnolias in Zurich, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Venice during Corona Lockdown 2020, Italy.</p>
<p>A cemetery in Likpe Bakwa, Volta Region, Ghana. </p>
<p>Volcano Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy.</p>
<p>Seoul, South Korea.</p>
<p>Pyongyang, D.P.R.K.</p>
<p>Roundabout in Dubai, UAE </p>
<p>Sardinia, Italy.</p>
<p>Volcano Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy.</p>
<p>First snow in Zurich in 2018, Zurich, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Dubai, UAE.</p>
<p>Kumasi Market, Ghana. </p>
<p>At the beach at Wilderness, South Africa.</p>
<p>Rainforest nearby Hohoe, Volta Region Ghana.</p>
<p>Scenic flight over the Namib desert, Namibia.</p>
<p>One of the big landmarks in Switzerland - the Landwasser Viaduct. <br />Graubünden, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Dubai, UAE.</p>
<p>The awesome blossom of Glyzine or Wisterie in Zurich, Switzerland.</p>
<p>3:55 am at Langtang valley, Nepal.</p>
<p>Waldhessen, Germany.</p>
<p>Litchfield NP, Australia. </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>'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>Kyanjing Gompa, Nepal.</p>
<p>Mölltaler Gletscher, Kärnten, Austria.</p>
<p>One of the big landmarks in Switzerland - the Landwasser Viaduct. <br />Graubünden, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Venice during Corona Lockdown 2020, Italy.</p>
<p>Niyama, Maldives.</p>
<p>Wadi Rum, Jordan.</p>
<p>Opal mining in Coober Pedy, Australia. </p>
<p>Marina di Pisa. Tuscany, Italy.</p>
<p>The great pyramids of Giza, Egypt.</p>
<p>St. Gotthard pass, 2106 m, Switzerland.</p>
<p>Erongo NP, Namibia.</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>The place, where I grew up. Freiburg, Germany.</p>
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