Black and white print on Hahnemuehle Matt FineArt Photo Rag 308 gsm paper: El Sabinar, a phoenicean tree shaped by centuries of trade winds, El Hierro.

Archival Photo Papers for Printing

 In times of a flood of digital images it’s soothing to actually hold a photograph that someone considered worth printing.…
Virunga photobook with black and white images from the Virunga mountains in Congo and Rwanda.

Virunga Photobook

 Treated myself to a one-off fabric cover, hardback photobook with leporello binding. Book is 28×19 cm with 72 pages and…
The landscape of Switzerland's Engadin valley.

Flat Mountains

 Is it frowned upon to flatten the mountains?
The sun sets over a lake in a small valley in Val Poschiavo in Switzerland's canton Graubünden (Grisons).

Postcard from Engadin

 A postcard from Engadin in Switzerland’s canton Graubünden (Grisons). I wanted to bivouac but chickened out… The sunset at the…
El Bajon is an underwater mountain near the fishing village of La Restinga in El Hierro. The steep summits rise from a hundred metres depth almost to the ocean surface. The currents support an abundant marine life with large dusky groupers, barracuda, greater amberjacks, and sometimes whale sharks and manta rays.

Diving on the Volcano: El Bajón

 El Bajón is an underwater mountain at the southern tip of El Hierro, the island that once was the end…
Black moray eel (Muraena augusti) with large white eyes, El Hierro. Moray eels actively pump water in and out of their open mouths which is often mistaken as threatening. They have excellent sense of smell.

Marine Life in El Hierro (Part 2)

 This is the second article about scuba diving and marine life in El Hierro. The waters around La Restinga are…
A dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus) curiously approaches. Dusky groupers can grow up to 1.5 metres length and live over several decades. They are an endangered species due to overfishing.

Marine Life in El Hierro (Part 1)

 El Hierro sits on a ridge on the 3’500-metre-deep seabed, making it a dive spot with rich biodiversity. As marine…
Sailing from North Africa, first settlers arrived in El Hierro about five hundred years BC. Portuguese explorers landed in 1341 and found a stone age culture that had ended several thousand years earlier on the continents. In 1405, Jean de Béthencourt conquered the island for Spain and captured the native Bimbaches. In 1482, Portuguese Diogo Cão was the first European to sail beyond the West African Cape Bojador and the Canary Islands: he went as far as to the mouth of the river Congo. Later in 1493, Christopher Columbus fueled up his supplies on his second sailing to the Americas.

El Hierro, the Edge of the Old World

 El Hierro once was the edge of the known world. The most western point of the Old World remained the…
Stefan Kung of team BMC won the Swiss Time Trial Championship June 22, 2017 in Luterkofen, Switzerland.

Four Exposures for One Bicycle Race

 Photographing the Swiss Time Trial Championship with a large format camera has been on my mind for a long time.…