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