Sheep and me

The Ram and the Photographer

2012 will be the year of meat – at least for me. Together with a journalist of seegrund.ch, Martin Arnold, we met Markus Nyffeler and …

Alpenmagazin

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3 days in the alps, in a very special location, the Greina. We published a slideshow on youtube for alpenmagazin.org. Slideshow designed by Stefanie Christ, …

When the trees…

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  Adrian Bollhalder, lumberjack, cutting trees in Urnäsch, Appenzell Rhode Exterior. Never seen somebody doing this job that professional and with so much dedication. All …

Fun in the Studio

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Every product starts with a good idea. Steff Tobler, founder of wind.ch Teamevents, contacted me and told me about his trailer and all the white …

The colors of the bottle

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Andi Loser is climbing the bottletree on St.Anton, Oberegg, Switzerland, for hanging new bottles in all kinds of colors on it. The refresh happens every …

The Map is not the Territory

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Well – we all have to admit mistakes sometimes or are disappointed because of nonfulfiled hopes or expectations. Yesterday was one of these days, when …

I AM NIKON

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We don’t have the contract yet – Nikons are busy today. But – we will become a Nikon System Partner – which means, we sell …

Young Love – Junge Liebe

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Shooting of a young couple in the studios at Seeallee, Heiden. My wife was touched by the photograph of the two – stay together brave …

third of fifty

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Thursday, 20 of January, my third encounter of 50 planned (yes – you are right if you ask ‘where are the first two?’). Andi Loser, …

Catch the Liquid

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uuuuuuu – the Mamyia 645 DF with the digital Schneider Kreuznach lenses works just phenomenal. In this setting I used a 1/1000 at aperture 2.8 …

Attending “Mein Chur”

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Tonight I attended the vernissage of my friend Andrea Badrutt in Chur, Switzerland. He presented his new book “Mein Chur” with plenty of very good …

Hirtenstock und Käsebrecher

Tonight I attended the vernissage of the new book “Hirtenstock and Käsebrecher”, published by Giorgio Hösli and Paul Hugentobler. It took them three years of …