Blogs

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...

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...