Blogs

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...

November 2020 More than half a year has passed since I made it back from Antarctica with difficulties. Due to the lock down I was not able to travel since then. Now finally...

November/December 2019 Last November I traveled for over 2 weeks to the tropical rainforest of Sarawak and Sabah in East Malaysia on the island of Borneo. Our group of 4 was guided...

August 2019 On July 2nd there was a total solar eclipse in the Atacama Region of Chile. For me it was the first total eclipse to see and photograph. I did some thorough preparation...

March 2019 I am very happy about the publication of my photo of the Very Large Telescope with the 4 laser guide star beams in the March edition of the National Geographic...

September 2018 In July I visited Costa Rica for the first time. The trip included four National Parks: Tortuguero at the Caribbean coast, Braulio Carrillio National Park and Yatama...

April 2018 April is the time to go far south to Patagonia. Autumn is arriving and the trees are starting to change their colors to yellow and red. The Lenga and Ñire trees...