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

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

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<p>Evening mood in the Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

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

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

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

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

<p>Venice 2020 (during Lockdown), Italy.</p>

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

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

<p>At the EXPO2020 (Nov 21) the UK Pavilion in Dubai, UAE.</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>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>The Kunsthaus Zürich with the new annex by David Chipperfield, which will be officially opened next year, 2021.</p>

<p>The famous Al-Khazneh temple in Petra, Jordan.</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>The two stooges at the Etosha National Park, Namibia.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>St. Gotthard pass, 2106 m, Switzerland.</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>Berlin, Karl-Marx Allee, Germany.</p>

<p>Leaning Tower of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy.</p>

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

<p>A Baby-Southern Right Whale (±10-15 tons!) is fooling around in Gansbaai, South Africa. </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>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>Zurich during Corona lockdown, 2020. Switzerland</p>

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

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

<p>Niyama Private Islands, The Maldives.</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>Auberge Kasbah Meteorites, Marocco.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>The place, where I grew up. Freiburg, Germany.</p>

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

<p>Neuschwanstein Castle with Königssee, Germany.</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 ghost village of Al Madam, Sharja, UAE.</p>

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

<p>Back in the days in NYC in 2002.<br />Good old analog times with my Canon EOS 50E.</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>White Turf, St. Moritz, Switzerland.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>Scenic flight over the South Atlantic Ocean.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>The Sky on a random day in Mallorca, Spain.</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>Serious soccer game in Hohoe, Voltaregion, Ghana. </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>Abandoned stadium in Šiauliai, Lithuania.</p>

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

<p>The Sahara Desert at the border region of Algeria and Marocco.</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>A short stopover in a random village on the way to Accra, Ghana.</p>

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

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

<p>Me, myself and I – under the surface.</p>

<p>Big brother is watching you. <br />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>The desert takes back the city of Dubai, UAE.</p>

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

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

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

<p>The panther chameleon (Furcifer pardalis) is a species of chameleon found in the eastern and northern parts of Madagascar.</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>At the DMZ Information (a.k.a. propaganda) Center, D.P.R.K.</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>One of the big landmarks in Switzerland - the Landwasser Viaduct. <br />Graubünden, Switzerland.</p>

<p>At the Olifantsbad waterhole at Etosha NP, Namibia.</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>'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>Tremola, St. Gotthard, Switzerland.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>Snapshot Paris Nightlife, France.</p>

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

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

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

<p>View from the Siegessäule to the Tiergarten and the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany. </p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>Somewhere in Marocco. At some time in the year 2002.</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>At the beach at Wilderness, South Africa.</p>

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

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

<p>A Cheetah mother lets her cubs eat first after a successful hunt of an Impala, South Africa.</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>Gullfoss waterfall, located in the canyon of the Hvítá river in southwest Iceland.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>First snow in Zurich in 2018, Zurich, Switzerland.</p>

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

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

<p>Magnolias in Zurich, Switzerland.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>The Siberian tiger or Amur tiger is native to the Russian Far East, Northeast China, and possibly North Korea.</p>

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

<p>Rainforest nearby Hohoe, Volta Region Ghana.</p>

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

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