October 2025 After some strong rain showers during the southern winter the Atacama Desert is in full bloom again. It is happening right now! This very special event happens...
August 2025 Few people visit the remote and impressive Cordillera Darwin in Southern Patagonia. It is one of the last untouched wildernesses of the planet and features impressive...
April/May 2025 During two weeks last April and May I visited the Galapagos Islands, a place that I wanted to see since a long time. We sailed on the ship “Samba”...
January 2025 A place that I wanted to visit since a long time is the remote island Alejandro Selkirk, which is part of the Juan Fernandez Archipelago about 780 kilometers...
December 2024 In December I spent a couple of weeks in Antarctica on board the MV Argus. We had two helicopters on the ship and did several spectacular flights over the snow...
October 2024 I visited the Tambopata Reserve in Peru for the first time in 2016. Since then I could not get the place out of my mind. I was so impressed with the nature that...
August 2024Last July I spent two weeks in the rarely visited Odzala-Kokoua National Park at the Republic of Congo. This national park is one of the oldest in Africa and protects...
October 2023 In October my new book “Very Large Telescope – 25 Years VLT” has been published by the German editorial KOSMOS-Verlag. It is a large format...
November 2022During last southern winter there were a few rain falls in the Atacama Desert. This happens only every 4-8 years and is related to the El Niño cycle. As a result...
May 2022In April I traveled to Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia Chile to photograph the forest and trees in autumn, something that I wanted to do since a long time. We went across...