"May you ever sail favorable winds, feel the sun shine in your face and may the twists of fate carry you upward that you might dance amongst the stars!"
Travel
Discover the world!
Travelling has always been a part of my life. Exploring new cultures and unknown ways of living have been very inspiring to me and especially my time in South Africa changed my way of thinking and took great part in shaping the peron I am today. There is so much more than just the life that surrounds us and that we are used to. Listening to new perceptions or just observing foreign people in their daily life can have very benefiting effects.
Sometimes you don’t have to travel far – just a change of your every day life, a cheap trip for a couple of days or a hike through the landscape in your vicinity can change your point of view.
Photography tour Yasuni National Park | Mandari Panga Lodge | Part 1
When I travelled to Ecuador in December 2022, my final destination was the Galapagos Archipelago where I joined a liveaboard trip with the Master Fleet and had the best dives of my life. Getting there from Fiji was quite a ...
Galápagos Diving from a Photography Perspective | Rabida Island | Part 9
This series of posts is about an 11-day liveaboard trip throughout the Galápagos Islands aboard the Deep Blue with the Master Liveaboard Fleet. Having shot several thousand images, I thought to share a few more here than on my other social ...
Galápagos Diving from a Photography Perspective | Cabo Marshall | Part 8
This series of posts is about an 11-day liveaboard trip throughout the Galápagos Islands aboard the Deep Blue with the Master Liveaboard Fleet. Having shot several thousand images, I thought to share a few more here than on my other social ...
Galápagos Diving from a Photography Perspective | Punta Vicente Roca | Part 7
This series of posts is about an 11-day liveaboard trip throughout the Galápagos Islands aboard the Deep Blue with the Master Liveaboard Fleet. Having shot several thousand images, I thought to share a few more here than on my other social ...
Galápagos Diving from a Photography Perspective | Cape Douglas | Part 6
This series of posts is about an 11-day liveaboard trip throughout the Galápagos Islands aboard the Deep Blue with the Master Liveaboard Fleet. Having shot several thousand images, I thought to share a few more here than on my other social ...
Galápagos Diving from a Photography Perspective | Wolf Island | Part 5
This series of posts is about an 11-day liveaboard trip throughout the Galápagos Islands aboard the Deep Blue with the Master Liveaboard Fleet. Having shot several thousand images, I thought to share a few more here than on my other social ...
Galápagos Diving from a Photography Perspective | Darwin’s Arch | Part 4
This series of posts is about an 11-day liveaboard trip throughout the Galápagos Islands aboard the Deep Blue with the Master Liveaboard Fleet. Having shot several thousand images, I thought to share a few more here than on my other social ...
Galápagos Diving from a Photography Perspective | Darwin’s Arch | Part 3
This series of posts is about an 11-day liveaboard trip throughout the Galápagos Islands aboard the Deep Blue with the Master Liveaboard Fleet. Having shot several thousand images, I thought to share a few more here than on my other social ...
Photographing birds on North Seymour Island | Galápagos Archipelago | Part 2
This series of posts is about an 11-day liveaboard trip throughout the Galápagos Islands aboard the Deep Blue with the Master Liveaboard Fleet. Having shot several thousand images, I thought to share a few more here than on my other ...
Galápagos Diving from a Photography Perspective | Wolf Island | Part 1
This series of posts is about an 11-day liveaboard trip throughout the Galápagos Islands aboard the Deep Blue with the Master Liveaboard Fleet. Having shot several thousand images, I thought to share a few more here than on my other social ...
My physioshark documentary hits 100k views on YouTube!
When going through my Youtube Channel a few days ago, I noticed that my Physioshark documentary had hit about 97k views! Wow! Not long ago, and I was tweeting the documentary to reach 50k and now this! Seems like the ...
Ecotourism in Guyana | Iwokrama Forest | Part 2
In last week's blog post I wrote about how we flew to the Iwokrama Forest in Guyana's interior where we started to collect information on Guyana's fauna and flora and existing ecotourism operations. Already on day one, we were lucky ...
Ecotourism in Guyana | The Iwokrama Forest | Part 1
On a recent assignment for Urgewald, a German NGO that you can read about more here, I fly to a country many people will never have heard about: Guyana. This natural jewel lies in the north-east of South America and ...
Promotional Videos Vanuatu | South Pacific Tourism
Some of you might know that besides the environmental work I do, I also work for the tourism industry, creating content for resorts, hotels, dive centers, liveaboards, and tourism boards. Earlier this year I spend some time in Vanuatu and ...
Campervan travel in New Zealand’s Northland
Having grown up in Germany, New Zealand has always been a very far-away place that I wanted to visit. A few of my friends back home had gone and spent time/work & travel there and spoke highly of this country ...
REPICORE Feedback Expedition to the Pacific | #4
After a successful day in Gizo and a wonderful boat ride back (including a stop at the famous Lola café, where I was able to snap a couple of images of blacktip reefs shark cruising the shallow seagrass meadows), we ...
REPICORE Feedback Expedition to the Pacific | #3
I flew from Suva, via Nadi to Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands where the REPICORE feedback trip continued. Of the more than 620.ooo inhabitants of this independent island state, only a little more than 60.000 live in Honiara ...
REPICORE Feedback Expedition to the Pacific | #2
After we landed back in Suva we made our way down to the Coral Coast to spend the weekend in one of the hotels there. While Amanda, Janne and I packed all the gear into a taxi and arrived late ...
REPICORE Feedback Expedition to the Pacific | #1
The last months have been quite busy – after coming back from French Polynesia, I was working throughout December and January and then embarked on a five-week Pacific Expedition at the beginning of February. I joined the REPICORE team led by ...
#Physioshark Update – four weeks in the field on Moorea
It’s hard to imagine, but I’m closing in on being four weeks at the CRIOBE Research Station here on Moorea in French Polynesia. As the Media Manager of the #physioshark project, I have and am creating media content for future ...
Sharks and whales around Moorea | French Polynesia
Maybe a couple dozen blacktip reef sharks can be seen at the water surface circling around our little boat. Fully equipped with all our dive gear and sitting on the edge of the boat, we are ready to jump in ...
Helgoland in August | Camping and Photography
I had been looking forward to this trip for quite a while and at that moment it looked like it’s not gonna happen. We were sitting in the train from Bremen to Bremerhaven and kept stopping and delaying for no ...
The macaques of Ubud: the Monkey Forest from a photography perspective
I was really looking forward to visiting the long-tailed macaques in Ubud’s Monkey Forest for quite some time! I had been here a few years before, bringing home some beautiful shots at the time. Over the past years, I have ...
In 52 hours to Indonesia
It started more than half a year ago in dark and cold northern Germany. We were sitting in our flat in Bremen and planning what to do after Amanda hands in her PhD. We found a very cheap flight to ...
Germany’s North – Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania is the least densely populated federate state in Germany (only 70 people/km2) and thus a Mecca for nature and wildlife photography. Not only do you find three of Germany’s fourteen national parks here, but the state far in ...
It’s not always raining in England!
After I handed in my master thesis about two weeks ago, I spent quite some time travelling around in Germany and visiting friends in Trier and Mainz, two of the cities I lived in for several years. The thesis write-up ...
Cyclone Winston and the current situation in Fiji
It’s been quiet on my blog for a few weeks. A lot has happened here in Fiji since my last post: Cyclone Winston swooped through Fiji on the 20th of February and left a path of destruction behind, namely in some outer ...
#2 Camping on North Stradbroke Island, Australia | Koalas, Kangaroos and Mantas
After a day packed with beautiful and new experiences on North Stradbroke Island both of us were quite tired. We had walked a few kilometers and I had been carrying my tripod with the heavy Manfrotto head plus my camera bag ...
#1 Camping on North Stradbroke Island, Australia | Koalas, Kangaroos and Mantas
North Stradbroke Island is with its 275.2 km2 the second biggest sand island the world and just 50 km from Brisbane. In order to explore the island a little, find some wildlife and to finally get into the water again and blow ...
ISATEC Excursion to Helgoland | Baby seals, algae and copepods
Lying around 46km north of the mainland Helgoland is the only high seas island of Germany. This rather majestic looking island offers great insights into northern sea ecology, attracts every year thousand of ornithologists and nature lovers and bears impressive ...
#2 Sailing around Mallorca | 7 nights on a boat |
The third day aboard our sail boat started with the warm rising sun (once again) and a swim in the warm waters (around 26 degrees) of the Mediterranean sea. I went in with my snorkel and GoPro to check out ...
#1 Sailing around Mallorca | 7 nights on a boat |
I´ve just come back from a 7-nights sailing trip around the coast of Mallorca. Together with my little brother, my mom and stepdad and two friends of ours we chartered a sail boat in the harbour of Palma and spent ...
Holidays in northern Germany – Part #2 | Safari with a local – hares, landscapes and deers!
My girlfriend Gülsah, Rox and I were staying in a bungalow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in northern Germany to enjoy a couple of days in nature and find some peace and rest (see Holidays in northern Germany - Part #1 | ...
Holidays in northern Germany – Part #1 | Beautiful windmill photos in Mecklenburg-Pomerania
About three weeks ago, Gülsah and I packed all our stuff (especially photography equipment ;)) in our car and made our way to Kassel, where we were going to pick up Rox. Both of us were extermely excited - not ...
Fade away with this little Bali movie – what a beautiful island!
Roughly 4.2 million people inhabit Bali and the few other small islands surrounding it. Almost 85% of them practice the hinduism religion, another reason which makes this place so spectacular. All the tourists visiting it year by year, make Bali ...
First Reunion with Rox and my 25th birthday spent in nature with awesome photos!
The good man is the friend of all living things. Mahatma Gandhi A bit more than a week ago Gülsah surprised me with having organized a trip to Reichensachsen, about 400km from Aachen. I was quite exicited, as we were ...
Trip to the Lousberg in Aachen with some nice dog pictures
To escape all the drunk people and Carnival itself Gülsah and I took the two bikes of Gülsah´s flatmate and headed towards the Lousberg, a hill quite famous in Aachen. The Lousberg is 264m high and lies north of the ...
Being back and the everlasting wanderlust
It´s been a little over a month now since I am back in Germany. After spending some time with my family in Berlin and Trier I went to work in Mainz and stayed then in Aachen with Gülsah for about two ...
Looking back – my time in Dahab with beautiful photos
Finally the time had come to go back to Germany after almost six month in Dahab. Six months of sunshine (we had cold & cloudy days though), six months straight of wearing shorts and six months of diving. I initially ...
13 things good to know when travelling to Dahab!
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. (Anais Nin) My time in Dahab comes to an end, as I am flying home the 20th of January.. It´s been almost six months that I´ve ...
White Canyon, Ain Houdra Oasis, Mushroom Rock & the small Coloured Canyon
A week ago Gülsah and I joined a trip of Best Offer Safari to the White Canyon. It´s about an hours drive from Dahab in the direction of Nuweiba when you turn right into the desert. No prob for our ...
Beautiful Dahab Photos but the damn plastic
I´ve put together some pictures I´ve taken over the last couple of weeks. Dahab became my home and I have to say I am very happy here. The sun is really enhancing the quality of life in an immense way – ...
My little friends in my house..
When I moved into my little house in Assalah, I knew I wasn´t gonna live there alone - I had a couple of mice and - of course - Rox my dog. These were and are the only mice I have ...
NABQ – a protected area in the South Sinai, Egypt
Nabq is a protected area in the south Sinai, Egypt. It covers about 600 square kilometers and was established in 1992 in order to preserve this wonderful part of the world and safe it from the fate some other areas ...
Egyptian sand gecko found in my garden | Dahab – Egypt
I´ve found this little guy in my garden and enjoyed taking some real close-up´s of him/her. I don´t have a book or something, but think this one belongs to the Egyptian sand geckos. If anyone out there should be a ...
Sinai´s Agamid lizards | Dahab – Egypt
About two weeks ago Gülsah and me had a day out in the desert for her birthday. The guy living there kept two agamid lizards in a small aquarium like glass container. I took my chance and took a couple ...
That’s a dog – Welcome to the world of Rox | Dahab
Here are some of the maaaany images I've shot of Rox during the last few days/weeks. It´s great having him around at home - always somebody there to talk to 😉 I love this guy and we are really soul ...
Ten very happy days | Birthday in the Sinai desert | Dahab, Egypt
Gülsah and me had some awesome days. She came a day before her 25th birthday - we hadn´t seen eachother for nine weeks or so and so felt a bit strange but made me very happy at the same time ...
New house, new dog, new bike – my life in Dahab
A couple of days ago I was asked by a friend here, if I was still looking for a new house. I had actually planned to move into my own little place, after the time at RSEC would end in ...
Birds in Dahab – including the huge ospreys!
I´ve been able to photograph some of the bird life here in Dahab over the past two months or so.. I´m especially in love with the graceful ospreys, but there are many more birds in Dahab to observe and photograph ...
Boat trip, dolphins and the Blue Hole.. but sad news as well..
Past monday we went out by boat to El Shugurat, Gabr el Bint & Shaab Said about an hours boat drive from Dahab. The sun was shining at its best and the sea was calm and flat like a table of ...
First survey dives, Malaika & poisened dogs
After a whole week of practice, calibration dives and indicators study we finally completed our first survey dive site - moray garden. Yesterday we did two dives there and finished the 100m transect on 15m (fish survey, invertebrate survey, substrat survey & coral ...
Dahab´s Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) | What a bird!
Yesterday, during our lunch break, I saw "our" two ospreys sitting on their favourite place again: the antenna pole on the police station. I took my D90, put my 300mm Tamron on it and headed towards them. Just next to ...
Reef Check and RSEC (Red Sea Environmental Center) | Dahab – Egypt
The day after Gülsah had left I moved into the RSEC house in a different part of Dahab, as the Dahab Reef Monitoring Programm was about to start. RSEC (Red Sea Environmental Center, for more Information see http://www.redsea-ec.org/) is a ...
Bye bye Baby!
This morning was a very, very sad morning. Gülsah had to fly back home and we wont see eachother for at least seven weeks 🙁 A taxi came to fetch us at 2 am, really not a good time to ...
Diving, diving, diving | Dahab is awesome
Gülsah and me can now call us "Advanced open water" diver 🙂 We´ve had five beautiful dives with our instructor Frank, inlcuding one night dive here at Lighthouse, where we trained our beyonce control, navigation and other essential diving skills ...
A bit about Dahab | first impressions and a few photos
It´s been ten days now since we arrived in this little town around an hour north from Sharm el-Sheikh. The day we flew (16.08.2013), the whole of egypt was given the state "not to travel to" by the german department ...
