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. Around 2017 I rediscovered my love for Scotland and since then have enjoyed very many hill walks in sometimes challenging, but in a way always photogenic weather. In addition to that, I more recently got back into mountaineering on high alpine routes and multi pitch climbs in the alps - and ensure to always have my camera at hand there, offering yet another wonderful photo opportunity.

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 mirrorless 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. For a long time I used the compact and capable Panasonic rangefinder style cameras, first GX7 and then GX9, paired 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 - especially on long hikes - the Micro Four Thirds system with its compact bodies and lenses (and the crop factor 2) was the perfect fit: pretty good image quality, lightweight and compact.

Unfortunately Panasonic has neglected that side of the system badly for many years and hasn't released any new iteration of that sort of rangefinder style compact body. I was keen on updating to a camera with more resolution, better IBIS and also with weather sealing. But all newer MFT camera with weather sealing were significantly bigger and only provided a small increase in resolution.

When Fuji released the X-T5, this very much looked like it was designed for me. It still took me another year to finally decide to switch systems, but eventually I got myself an X-T5 with the new 16-50 kit zoom and the 23mm "Fujicron" - and I am very happy with that camera. Yes, it is a bit bigger and heavier, but the results justify carrying the extra weight. The only thing that I definitely miss is the gorgeous Panasonic Leica 15mm with its creamy bokeh and excellent rendering. The 23mm Fuji is good, but doesn't come close to PanaLeica in terms of joy of use. That kit zoom on the other hand was quite a surprise and delivers excellent image quality, while still being compact and lightweight, which is why I ended up using only that lens on quite a few of my more recent mountaineering adventures where I didn't want to risk swapping lenses in heavy weather or on very steep terrain. So I am no longer true to my original flickr name "fixedfocallength" as I no longer use primes exclusively (though I had already used the versatile Panasonic 12-60 before as my bad weather lens).

In terms of post processing of the raw files I prefer to keep it at a minimum. In most cases I only do slight histogram 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.