Jul
31
2016Farne Islands – Puffin & Angels Photo Workshop
Believe me, once you see one you are hooked ! Puffins are the most adorable little birds, they are about the size of a duck and look somewhat like a penguin with a big round orange beak. They are cute just sitting there, truly amazing when in flight, and real funny when they land, putting out big orange feet, landing and half falling down, like they haven’t quite mastered the act of a proper landing yet.
Happy landing
Nov
01
2015PART 2 of the INDIAN CANYONS PHOTO TOUR with Christian Heeb
So we saw the Grand Canyon, did a photo shoot with a native Indian model, we photographed Antilope Canyon, Horseshoe Bend, Rimrock Hoodoos, Monument Valley and Canyonlands N.P, and that was only the first week. We were afraid it couldn’t get better…. but it did !
DAY 7: around Moab
It is rather hard getting up at 05:15 but we don’t want to be sissies, besides, I saw a photo of the Dead Horse Outlook and it looked real good. Christian drove much too fast so we get there in the pitch dark and decide to do some stars and light up a little tree in the foreground. The whole thing proceded a little messy, everybody pressed their shutter at a different time, and so one gets a lot of light, others little, it’s just practise ! As we get too much light for the stars to really show we proceed to the canyons rim. This is probably the best outlook I’ve seen so far, this is really special, I just love the scenery here.
Dead Horse Overlook, not a horse in sight…
Oct
25
2015We met in a bar. In the gigantic casino in the lobby of the Las Vegas hotel. All around us poker, blackjack, roulette, machines jingling, bells ringing, the noise level was deafening, people all around us. We are 8, the boss is the guy with the hat, his wife is the manager, maybe she’s the real boss ? The other 6 that’s us: two German and four Swiss amateurs, and we are ready to learn from him…. how to shoot…
Shoot a really good photo ! Let’s get on the road and start the :
INDIAN CANYONS PHOTO TOUR
with Christian Heeb
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08
2015SVALBARD PHOTO TOUR – Mai 2015
We are on Svalbard in Longyearben, the capital, an ugly little town in the Isfjord on the west coast of the island of Spitsbergen at latitude 78°N. Only 1338km to the North Pole! They say there are more polar bears here than inhabitants (about 2200), so our chances of finding one should be pretty good.
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09
2015
After showing Mustafa (a friend of mine at work) my fireworks photos taken at the “Seenachtsfest” in Lachen (our neighbour village),
Seenachtsfest Lachen 2014
Seenachtsfest Lachen 2014
he revealed to me that he had signed up for a “Night-Photography” photo work-shop in the city of Zurich. So I decided to join him and also convinced Markus my other photo enthusiast friend from work to sign up as well.
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22
2014PILATUS :
Photo workshop with NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC photographers:
Florian & Salomon Schulz
We know this guy, went to a multi media show he did on his travels to the Arctic last year, and we’re definitely hooked !
We visited an afternoon workshop last year, and as we saw this chance…we took it. Two days on the Pilatus, a 2132m/7000 ft high mountain in central Switzerland, learning from the pro’s and the best thing is, we are going to do night shoots and learn to do time lapse, Juergs favourites !
So we left home a little early, hoping to take some photos before it got too crowded. An hour’s drive got us to Alpnachstad. The exit is well posted and the parking lot was easily found and half empty, good for us ! All right maybe this was because the weather was getting from average to rather lousy…. We got our tickets for the cogwheel railway. It goes up all 30 minutes, and we had of course just missed it, so we had plenty of time for a coffee before we could at last get up there.
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