Temple Guards In Vietnam, I came across these statues at the entrance of a temple in early 2018.

Red Dragonfly In the hustle and bustle of everyday life we like to overlook the small, but often even more spectacular details. It took some time to get this dragonfly with its red-orange colour in front of the camera lens on a bench in the Everglades Florida’s but resulted eventually in a spectacular macro [...]

Rockefeller Centre Reflections are one of my favourite motifs. For this shot, I positioned myself in the middle of a New York road in order to capture the Rockefeller Centre and its reflection in the opposite building.

Mushroom Couple Nature can produce the most beautiful things. In 2014/15 I escaped the Cologne city life for a year and discovered these mushrooms on the farm of my host family in Virginia.

Penny Mist Penny Mist is one of the small fishing boats that anchored in San Francisco Bay. The bright colours of the boats give a nice contrast to the typical San Francisco weather.

Emperor Blue Sometimes the simplicity of the picture is the convincing element, as with this blue palace roof photographed in Beijing, China.

Hongkongs Skyscrapers There are few cities in the world where living space is as scarce and thus as expensive as in the Asian metropolis of Hong Kong. For this reason, the buildings are built high up, as this picture shows.

Sea of Blooms A true (artificial) sea of blossoms pours out from the ceiling of one of the hotel complexes in the dazzling casino metropolis of Las Vegas in the US state of Nevada.

Chained Birds There may be some traditions that Westerners cannot or do not want to understand. At a bird market in the Chinese city of Nanjing (near Shanghai), I discovered these parakeets which were tied with cords.

Suzhous Waterways Suzhou is often referred to as "Venice of China". Although there are some small but subtle differences between the two cities, there are also branched waterways and canals in Suzhou. In combination with the white houses, there are great sceneries like this one, which I captured at the beginning of 2018. [...]