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 exciting locations. ...

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 even try to add a c...

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 to heat up, but thi...

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

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 competitions of the par...

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, Georgia, spent 3 days the...

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 too much with it ye...

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 are plenty of examples...

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

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

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

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

It's only February, but I think I am finished with laying out my travel plans for this calendar year, most of which have already been booked and paid for. We...

As a recent member of the Essex Photo Club, I was given the chance to participate in the club's internal photo contest, a monthly recurring event that, depen...

As I had mentioned in an earlier entry, last weekend we had this "once in a long time" event of a Super Wolf Blood Moon. Of course I was eager to be out and...

At the end of last year I joined the Essex Photo Club to which I had been introduced to by a fellow photographer whom I met on my Norway trip last November. ...

Although most photos of this series were taken already last year, I only got to process some of them yesterday. What series, you ask? Bulbs, or light bulbs t...