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Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
A friend in the US just posted many great pictures from the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta last week. This brought back many memories of my own visit there six years…
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Visit to the Reptile House
The first photo course in the Vivarium, the small but nice zoo in Darmstadt, had been so much fun for me, it was immediately clear that I wanted to repeat…
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Horses in the Morning Haze
For me, every season has its own set of images fixed in my mind that I immediately think of. In winter, it’s snow and Christmas decorations; in spring, it’s the…
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Symmetry
How often have I been annoyed by a power transmission tower spoiling the scene when taking landscape photos? So why not turn the tables and make the tower itself the…
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Bursting Water Balloons
Highspeed photography using external flashes has been a topic here before, with the matches. Now it is time for that again – but the new idea relates to the old…
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Frankfurt at Night
Shots of big cities at night adorn many posters and canvases – the countless colored lights simply have a mesmerizing effect. And with Frankfurt right around the corner, such photos…
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Freezing Soap Bubbles
Soap bubbles are filigree and fascinating creations, with which you can easily occupy small children as well as photographers for hours – especially in winter. Photography in Winter What fascinates…
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Total Eclipse of the Moon
The moon shines bright and the stars give a light… Or not, as in this particular case. Because on 27 July 2018, there was the longest lunar eclipse of the…
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Little Planet “Railway World”
When you are getting yourself into post-processing photos on the computer, you quickly stumble across all sorts of effects and ideas. One of them is the “little planet”. However, for…
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Starry sky over the Allgäu
There’s a well-known saying that you should combine the pleasant with the useful. So, what do you do when a business trip of several days promises magnificent photo opportunities including…
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Of Flowers and Bees
Macro shots, especially of insects, have fascinated me not only since I began to seriously engage in photography. These images provide a glimpse into a world all of its own,…
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Boneyard Beach
There are moments when you are looking for something very specific, and then end up finding something completely different. That’s how I felt last year in the USA, when I…
