Blogs

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...

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...