Well, 2021 turned out to be a very active year again. While the first half was marked mostly by short trips, like Maine and the Jersey...

2020, what a year it was! It started off pretty good ...

At the end of October, I had the great pleasure to participate in an Infrared Workshop in Bandon, Oregon.

About a month and a half has passed since my last blog entry and the focus is shifting from Corona, with currently over 7 million cases...

Corona - rarely has one word impacted so many people all over the world, what comes to my mind with equal impact are names, Hitler and...

I think it’s time to write about my software choices and the ups and downs I experience with them.

Recently I had the great pleasure of travelling with Amazing Views to Norway’s Lofoten Islands again, for the second time within 4 months.

One more year - I hope to have at least that much time left to do what I like the most these days, taking photographs in interesting and...

Now that I am done for the year with major travelling activities, I do have some time to make this website a little more "modern." I will...

I rang in the Fall with not one but two wonderful photographer trips ...

Wow, this was a long summer, or so it felt at least! July was brutally hot, August extremely wet. But now it's September and things start...

Traveling to Germany is, wouldn’t you know it, always something special for me, given that I am a first generation immigrant from...

Since joining the Essex Photo Club late last year I have not only participated in several of the club competitions, but also in a few...

At the beginning of April, my wife and I were visiting the South of the United States, or, to be more precise, we flew to Savannah,...

Well, in itself this toy is not all that new, but it is new to me: The Miops Smart Trigger! I just got it two days ago, so I haven’t done...

In the last couple of weeks I got the idea to shoot bubbles, soap bubbles to be precise. Not that this hasn't been done before - there...

Well, after not having been willing to brave the very cold temperatures last month, this month's full moon, called a Super Snow Moon,...

Yesterday I had the great pleasure to shoot Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, New York. While everyone is allowed to photograph this...

This week I attended another great meeting at the Essex Photo Club where Claire Gentile presented some of her fabulous works on...

Little Planets, also called Tiny Planets or Tiny Worlds, are basically warped photographs that, when finished, look like a little world....