Stories about a photographer’s life

75 Years – 75 Memorials – Stage 5: The Oderbruch Soviet memorials

Stage 5 of the photo project “75 years – 75 memorials” leads me to the very important Soviet memorials of Oderbruch region, where Red Army crossed Oder River for the first time back in the beginning of 1945. I start this ~90 kilometres ride in Küstrin-Kietz, cycle on the Oder dike Oderdeich to Kienitz, Groß Neuendorf and Letschin as well as Manschnow, Reitwein, Lebus and Booßen, to finish in Frankfurt (Oder)… Read More

75 Years – 75 Memorials – Stage 2: Berlin’s Southeast

Stage 2 of the photo project “75 years – 75 memorials” on May 9th, the Russian Day of Victory, that is Den Pobedy, the memorial tour leads from Blankenfelde-Mahlow via Glasow and Zeuthen to nearby Wildau, then up to Erkner and Grünheide as well as to the memorials in Woltersdorf and Schöneiche… Read More

75 Years – 75 Memorials – Stage 1: Berlin’s Northeast

Stage 1 of the photo project “75 years – 75 memorials”, on May 8th from Berlin-Buch via Bernau, Seefeld and Blumberg, to Ahrensfelde and Berlin-Marzahn, as well as Alt-Hohenschönhausen, Berlin-Lichtenberg, Berlin-Rummelsburg to Berlin-Treptow, where main celebrations take place… Read More

How to install Litchi on DJI Smart Controller

The DJI Smart Controller is a great thing. Finally the miserable fiddling around with smartphone and remote controller is a waste of time if you want a quick fly. However, the smart controller is yet missing the fine Litchi app. Here is a guide how to change that… Read More

In the Final Round…!

I am on the way to Moscow now, to attend to the award ceremony of Golden Turtle, a big international photo contest and […] the largest international eco-cultural educational project, carried out in Russia. I have no idea which one of my photos made it into the final round and I have no clue if I’ll win or not, but it’s quite an honour having reached the last round of the first photo contest I have ever joined at the first go.… Read More

Syria photo series revised

I am more than happy to have visited Syria…! The country plunged into complete disaster as the civil war threw the country at incredible turmoil. The war tore families, friends and everyday life apart and had a massive impact on all cultural sites as well of course. Nothing is like it was before…, which is pretty inconceivable for us stability-blessed westerners.… Read More

xflo:w photo calendar 2015 – South Pacific and Architecture

Also the year 2015 will see again two high quality variants of the annually produced xflo:w photo calendar. Thematically the first calendar reflects the South Seas, a journey I made earlier this year through the island world of the South Pacific. The other calendar shows architecture photos I have taken throughout the last years with images featuring a strong geometrical or abstract aspect.… Read More