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...
January 2022 I added a gallery of photos that I took during a trip to the Kamchatka Peninsula last September 2021. The trip took us to the Kronotsky protected area where we had the chance...
December 2021 New photo gallery from Iceland from a trip last October. Many photos of abstract patterns are taken from the air with a drone. They show thermal hot springs...
July 2021 Due to the Pandemic my travel activities have been very limited. On the other hand this gave me time to review my archives. I played with black and white and after...
March 2021 Today a new snake species was described, it was named “Inger’s Slug-eating Snake” (Asthenodipsas ingeri). Its habitat are the cool and wet mountain...
December 2020 To have two total solar eclipses within a bit over one year in the same country does not occur very often. In July 2019 there was a total eclipse in the north...
November 2020 My new book “Tambopata – a rainforest experience” is now finished. It shows a selection of photos that I took during an expedition to the Tambopata...