Born and raised in Berlin, I started with travel photography 27 years ago at the age of 17 with a two months trip through the USA. My first serious camera was a Nikon F3 with just a 50 mm lens. As a student I spent nearly three months in the rainforest of Costa Rica taking macro images of insects, frogs and reptiles. Later I did some experiments with high speed photography, building my own trigger equipment and taking images of exploding light bulbs. Since 1999 I’ve specialised in landscape photography in and around the wild places of this planet. I’m always looking for dramatic and beautiful light and clean compositions. My preferred subjects at the moment are flowing water and rainforests. Typically I use lenses in the range between 15 mm and 60 mm and often GND and ND filters.