Via gettyimages I have come across the magazine "New Scientist". They use a humpback whale picture of mine in their article "On the geological succession of organic beings". I took the photo in South Africa, on the "wild coast -...

I joined tripit.com today. This is a very useful tool for organising flights, particularly as an iPhone app. You just send tripit your online reservation by email, and they manage the flight. Delays, flight time changes, gate...

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...

Unbelievable !

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By coincidence I have come across an internet link from BBC.co.uk with fantastic photos of humpback whales. One of the photos was taken by me ;-)

www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/worldonthemove/species/humpback-whale

In order to dive in the Cenote , one should stay for a few days at the Playa de Carmen and choose the Yucatek divers for the diving program. They are a VERY well led diving school, and also organise the hotel stay.

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...

Unfortunately there are also very unattractive things to report about Diva Island, but for legal reasons I do not want to publish details on the internet.

I will happily report via the telephone. The photographs speak for...

After much consideration, I have flown again with Qatar Airways (Frankfurt - Qatar - Male) after 10 years abstinence to the Maldives. I had decided to visit Diva island (previously Ari beach and White Sand) in the Ari Atoll – now...

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...