I had decided to make a short visit to the German Oceanographic Museum and the Ozeaneum in the Hanse city of Stralsund. On the way back to Stralsund I flew via Berlin, where the fashion trade show "Bread and Butter" and the...

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I was in Mexico for three weeks to photograph sailfish by the island Isla Mujeres and Cenote (both in Yucatan – starting off point is Cancun). With Lufthansa the flight is straightforward from Frankfurt to Mexico City, and then...

A couple of photos of the vernissage by my friend Tatsuo Yamamoto from Tokyo. Tatsuo travels to the most beautiful beaches in the world in order to paint them. Some of his pictures are painted so realistically that one mistakes...

After returning from Manado (North Sulawesi) to Bali, I flew on back to Tokyo. I like Tokyo a lot. This time, I wanted to photograph the Tsukiji Fish Market, and so chose the Hotel Conrad as my base camp – not far from the fish...

With Jaka , a diving guide from BIDP , I flew from Denpasar (Bali) to north Sulwesi for a week, to visit Bunaken National Park and dive in the Lembeh Strait. We spent the night in the Hotel Sedona, where the Euro Divers diving...

New blog posts will appear shortly, as I have been migrating onto a new computer - a MacBook Pro - and various jobs have meant that I have not found much time for the blog.

My new photos on...

At last I am returning to the Azores, to photograph baleen whales ! I arrived in Lisbon today, and am flying on tomorrow to Pico Island. At the same time last year I was able to photograph finback whales ...

The largest picture agency in the world, Getty Images, has put itself up for sale after they failed to find a buyer for the company. That is a very unusual piece of news that I picked up form the financial press! Getty stands for...

The New Zealand daily paper Nelson Mail reported today that some pilot whales have beached and died on South Island. Looking at the photos of the whales on the beach, I would think that they were ”long-finned pilot whales”. There...