I'm a landscape, outdoors and travel photographer from Northern Germany. Some of the photos here were taken on my bike commute to work, which leads me through a nice landscape with meadows, fields and swamps. Another significant portion of my work was created on various multi day hikes in the Alps and Northern Europe. In recent years, I did most of those hikes in Scotland, which became my second home.

My journey through the world of photography started off back in the eighties with my father's good old Edixa Prismat TTL. Later, I switched to a Canon A-1 on which I especially loved the fast but compact 85mm f/1.8 lens. Back then I sometimes used zoom lenses, but I always came back to primes - hence my flickr name ;-)

I did quite a lot of photography throughout the nineties, exposing many slides on short and long hikes and on mountaineering and multi-week bicycle tours. After a longer break I got back into photography in 2010 when I bought a Panasonic GF1. On that early mirrorles system camera I was able to again enjoy my wonderful Canon FD lenses. Quickly I developed an even deeper passion for capturing landscapes and small details outdoors than before that break.

It was a great pleasure to revive that passion - and still is. Over the years I extended and updated my set of photography toys and tools. Currently I use a Panasonic GX9 with the excellent PanaLeica 15mm lens and a variety of adapted manual lenses, still including my old Canon FD lenses, a wonderful Leica Summicron-M 50mm, an old 50mm Trioplan and more. For my purpose - especialy on long hikes - the Micro Four Thirds system with its compact bodies and lenses (and the crop factor 2) is the perfect fit: good in image quality, lightweight and compact.

In terms of post processing of the raw files I prefer to keep it at a minimum. In most cases I only do slight histogramm adjustments and careful highlights/shadows treatment in Lightroom. For some shots I might add a vignette.

In case you have any suggestions or critical remarks for my photos, please don't hesitate to tell me - for me Flickr is about learning from others and about enjoying the great stuff that others share. But of course I also appreciate positive comments ;-)

Regarding comments: I actually would prefer not to get those flashy or even animated group icons in comments - for me they are rather distracting.