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Sri Lanka Photography Guide

In this article, I share the best photo spots in Sri Lanka, the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. Sri Lanka is an island nation located just next to the southern tip of India. The country's spectacular viewpoints, wild beaches, and dense jungle provide countless landscape and wildlife photography opportunities as…

Donegal Landscape Photography Guide

In this landscape photography guide, I share the most spectacular photo locations in County Donegal in the north of Ireland. I include both seascape and landscape photography spots. Donegal is known for its rugged coastline, dramatic cliffs, and wild landscapes. It offers some of Europe's best landscape photography opportunities, from…

Fuerteventura Landscape Photography Guide

In this Fuerteventura Landscape Photography Guide, I show you the best photo spots on the island. You'll learn that Fuerteventura is a prime photo travel destination among the Canary Islands. Here's a list of photo locations I cover: But first, let's answer an important question: Why should you visit Fuerteventura…

Essaouira Photography Guide

In this photography guide, I show you the best photo spots in Essaouira and give tips about street photography in Morocco. Here's an overview of the topics I cover: I've now visited Essaouira three times between 2019 and 2023. During every visit, I found new photo opportunities. The reason for…

Bangkok Photography Locations Guide

In this Bangkok photography guide, I show you what kind of photos you can take in Bangkok and where to find the best photo spots. I cover the following topics: Before I visited Bangkok, I thought of it as a hectic party town filled with backpackers about to travel through…

Bali Waterfall Photography - Sekumpul Guide

Sekumpul waterfall is a natural wonder located in the north of Bali. It's a photographer's paradise surrounded by lush vegetation, offering endless opportunities for landscape photography. In this Sekumpul photography guide, we explore this incredible waterfall, how to get there, and how to photograph it. If you follow my articles,…

Java Indonesia Landscape Photography Guide

In this article about landscape photography in Java, Indonesia, I show you some of my favorite photo locations in the eastern part of the island. Featured are spectacular waterfalls, temples, and the volcanoes for which Java is known. Java is the largest island in Indonesia and also home to its…

Sawarna Indonesia Landscape Photography

Indonesia is a fantastic destination for landscape photography featuring many photogenic places. In this guide, I share one of those with you: Sawarna. Located in the southwest of Java island, it offers countless opportunities to photograph spectacular coastal landscapes. Sawarna is a coastal village located in the Banten province of…

Tioman Photography Guide

In this landscape photography guide, I show you a place in Malaysia that is great for seascape photography: Tioman Island. I share how to get there, where to stay, and my favorite photo spot on the island. Tioman Island is a small tropical paradise located off the east coast of…

Kuala Lumpur Photography Guide

In this photography guide, I share the best photo spots in Kuala Lumpur, where to find spectacular rooftop views, and how to get around. In 2022, I traveled through Malaysia for a total of 30 days. During that time, I had three stays in Kuala Lumpur which I used to…

Vikos Gorge Photography Guide

With a depth of up to 1350 meters and many vertical drops along its edge, the Vikos Gorge in northern Greece is one of the deepest canyons in the world. And not only is this area great for hiking, but it's also an awesome place for landscape photography. In this…

Corfu Photography Guide

In this Landscape Photography Guide, I share my experiences photographing the Greek island of Corfu. I focus on the northwest of the island, where I stayed for one week in June 2022. Remember my last article about Milos? Milos has a very barren landscape, and the fascinating part about it…

Milos Photography Guide

In this article we explore one of the most beautiful islands of the Cyclades, Milos. I share several great photo spots and provide tips on photographing Milos. It is quite different from Paros, which made it a great next stop on my travels through Greece. I only had three days…

Paros Photography Guide

The Cyclades had been on my list of future photo destinations for a long time. In May 2022, after our two weeks on Crete, it was finally time to explore some of these beautiful islands, starting with Paros. In this Paros photography guide I show you my favorite photo spots…

Crete Photography Guide

This landscape photography guide focuses on Crete, the largest of the Greek islands. I share the best photo spots I visited during the two weeks I explored the island, and I provide tips about the best time to visit Crete. When we decided to travel to Crete in May 2022,…

Venice Photography Guide

I've been a photographer for more than ten years and even though Venice has been on my list of future travel destinations for most of that time, only recently did I finally visit this wonderful city. For five days, I explored the maze of narrow alleys, canals, and little bridges…

Puerto Viejo Photography Guide

After visiting the mountains of Costa Rica and exploring the cloud forest of Monteverde, it was time to return to the coast. We had started our travels through Costa Rica at the Pacific coast of the country and wanted to finish our journey in the east at the Caribbean coast.…

Monteverde Photography Guide

The last article was all about how to get from La Fortuna to Monteverde and if you haven't read it and plan to do this tour, I recommend to check it out. In this Monteverde Photography Guide I now share some interesting photo locations and provide tips on getting the…

La Fortuna Photography Guide

In this Costa Rica photography guide, I share my experiences exploring and photographing the area around La Fortuna which lies at the foot of the Arenal Volcano. After our visit to Bajos Del Toro, we continued our journey northward to La Fortuna. It's one of the busiest travel destinations in…

Bajos Del Toro Photography Guide

In this landscape photography guide, I show you some of the best waterfalls in Costa Ricsa's Bajos Del Toro area, and I give tips on how to photograph them. While travelling through Costa Rica's north with our rental car, we made a two day stop in the Bajos Del Toro…

Ultimate Guide for Photographing the Nauyaca Waterfall

If you are following my article series about photographing Costa Rica, you know that after staying in the Uvita area for a few weeks, we made our way up to Dominicalito. There I was quite successful photographing the dramatic coastline of Playa Dominicalito. What I also wanted to photograph in…

Photographing Dominicalito

After spending more than two weeks in the Marino Ballena National Park and enjoying the wonderful beaches there, it was time to move on. We didn't get far though, because our next stop Dominicalito was located less than 20 kilometers north of Uvita. I hadn't seen many photos of Playa…

Photographing Playa Ballena in Costa Rica

Just a few miles south of Uvita lies a wild beauty, Playa Ballena. After we had to cancel our original plans to visit Drake Bay on very short notice, we decided to spend a week in a beautiful cabin close to this wonderful beach instead. Up until now this was…

Photographing Uvita And Marino Ballena National Park

An hour south of Manuel Antonio National Park via bus or car lies the Marino Ballena National Park, which is the topic of this photography guide. It is located near Uvita and stretches between Playa Hermosa in the north and Playa Pinuela in the south. As the name suggests, it…

Photographing the Algarve

After exploring the busy streets of Lisbon for three days it was nice to spend another few days at the coast. This time we drove down to the Algarve, which takes between three to four hours from Lisbon depending on traffic. I had been photographing the dramatic coastline of the…

Photographing Lisbon

The next stop on our travels through Portugal and Madeira was back on the mainland. From Madeira we flew to Lisbon and there we spent three days exploring the picturesque Alfama district. I had attempted to photograph Lisbon twice in the past already, but I had never stayed in its…

Photographing Pico Arieiro on Madeira

After a pretty successful few days of photography at the coast it was time to tackle the final goal of our Madeira journey - photographing Pico Arieiro. Being the third highest peak on the island it offers spectacular views of the surrounding mountains and I couldn't wait to experience those…

Photographing Ponta de São Lourenço on Madeira

Ponta de São Lourenço is a little peninsula in the far East of the island of Madeira just next to the town of Caniçal. In this article I show you the best vantage points, from which to photograph it. Those views are some of the most spectacular on the whole…

Fanal Forest Madeira Photography Guide

In this article I share my experience of photographing the beautiful Fanal Forest on Madeira. I give tips on how to get there, where to stay, and when to visit. The Fanal Forest is famous for fog, and when I was visiting in November of 2021, I was hoping to…

Photographing Portugal - Fairy Forest of Sintra

In the last two articles I showed you parts of the spectacular coastline near Lisbon. Today it's time for a different scenery. Close to the coast, in the mountains of Sintra, grows a magical forest, which in parts is covered completely by ivy. Exploring this fairy forest is something you…

Photographing Portugal - Magoito Beach

In the first article about Photographing Portugal, I showed you the beautiful town of Azenhas do Mar. Today I take you a few kilometers north to Praia do Magoito. Photographing Magoito Beach was another goal I had set for myself and after doing the scouting I knew exactly, which conditions…

Photographing Portugal - Azenhas do Mar

If you read my last article you might already know that for the next year I'm going to live the nomadic lifestyle, travel around the world - as much as COVID allows - and practice landscape photography full-time. To start things off, we decided to fly to Portugal and make…

Photographing Mont Saint-Michel

After two weeks in France our travels were sadly coming to an end. But we didn't want to leave the coast without visiting one of France's most famous monuments monuments - Mont Saint-Michel. Photographing this beautiful fortification that sits on a tidal island just off the coast of La Gréve…

Photographing Cap Fréhel in Brittany

After a successful two days in Ploumanach we drove east towards the Fréhel peninsula. If you are interested in spectacular cliffs and wide, golden beaches this is the place to visit in Brittany. Since I wanted to photograph the Cap Fréhel Lighthouse we drove all the way to the closest…

Photographing Ploumanach in Brittany

After spending two fantastic days on the Crozon Peninsula with its rough coastline it was time for some change of scenery again. Our next stop was in the Côtes-d'Amor department of Brittany. Up in Ploumanach we had planned to spend another two days to allow us some time to explore…

Photographing Crozon in Brittany

In this article I share my experience photographing the Crozon peninsula in Brittany, France. I also talk about the challenges of landscape photography and how I scout for compositions. If you followed my trip through France thus far, you know that the weather had been a bit of a challenge.…

Photographing Puy de Sancy in France

After visiting the popular lavender fields of Valensole we continued our travels through France and headed north. Our goal was to drive up to Brittany, but this would have been a too long drive for just one day. So we did a half-way stop in the Auvergne mountains, right in…

Photographing the Lavender Fields of Valensole

Back in July my girlfriend and I traveled through France in a campervan from Hannes Campers for two weeks. Within that time we drove more than 4000 km, starting down in the Provence region where I photographed the lavender fields of Valensole. After a brief stop in the Verdon Canyon…

Photographing Sardinia

Back in September we rented a campervan and drove south through Italy towards the island Sardinia. Two days and an eight hour ferry ride later we arrived in Olbia to start our adventure. Our plan was to circle the island in 11 days, starting at Porto Taverna, then continuing along…

Epic Light on Mallorca

In this article, I share some of the best photography locations on Mallorca, Spain, and take you behind the scenes of three of my favorite photos from the trip. During a 10-day visit to Mallorca, I stayed six days up in the north near the Formentor peninsula, and afterwards four…

Photographing Colombia - Tayrona National Park

The final part of our three week journey through Colombia was a visit to the Caribbean Coast and landscape photography in Tayrona National Park. To be able to photograph both sunrise and sunset inside the park, we also had to stay inside, because the park officially opens only between 8am…

Photographing Colombia - San Lorenzo and Cerro Kennedy

After our visit to the Pacific Coast of Colombia we flew up north to Santa Marta and from there made our way into the mountains to photograph the cloud forest around Cerro Kennedy. When I was planning this part of the trip I had set one objective for myself: getting…

Photographing Colombia - Nuqui

Back in September I traveled through Colombia for three weeks. I started my travels in Medellin from where I flew straight to Nuqui at the pacific coast. There I was picked up by boat to finally reach my destination for the next four days - the El Cantil Ecolodge. This…

Cityscape Photography in Chicago

It's been nearly twenty years since my first trip to the USA. Back then I visited Chicago for a few days, long before I started with photography. That's kind of a shame, because Chicago is such a photogenic place. So, as work required me to travel to Detroit for 10…

Mountain Photography in the Alps

It's summer, which means it's finally time for landscape photography in the Alps again. When it's hot down in the valleys, it's great to breathe some fresh mountain air while enjoying a spectacular view. The only problem with such trips into the Alps for me is that I only have…

Photographing Morocco - Casablanca and Fes

In the final part of my Photographing Morocco series I show you Casablanca and Fes. Although these cities are very different, they both offer great photo opportunities. Casablanca was our first stop after Essaouira - just a layover on our way to Fes. And I have to be honest here:…

Morocco Travel Photography - Desert and Coast

After two wonderful days of landscape photography in the desert, we continued our tour with Wild Morocco and drove through the vast Iriqui Lake towards the Anti-Atlas mountains and then north to Ait Ben Haddou. The barren area around the Iriqui Lake could easily have been a setting for Mad…

Morocco Desert Photography in the Erg Chigaga

In this article, I explain how to travel to the Erg Chigaga desert in Morocco to take great landscape photos of the towering dunes and vast expanses of golden sand. I've visited this sea of sand four times during four different trips to Morocco between 2019 and 2024, and I…

New Zealand - Rotorua and Coromandel

In the last article about my travels around the world I showed you the incredible landscapes of Tongariro National Park. After my early morning hike to photograph Mount Ngauruhoe we continued our journey with a drive towards Rotorua. Rotorua is very popular for the geothermal activity in the area. Geysers…

Photographing Malta

This November I had planned to flee the cold, grey weather in Germany and head down to Malta for a few days. In November you usually still get above 20°C there and looking at photos of the island it seemed to be a very sunny place. But as I arrived…

Photographing Hong Kong

Hong Kong is an exciting city to explore and photograph. I had visited Hong Kong for a few days during my travels around the world already. Back then I was there in January and I didn't see the sun once. Thus, photography wise it wasn't a very productive trip. Ever…

Photographing L'Alyana - Ninh Van Bay

Our final stop in Vietnam was at the coast near Nha Trang. And to make this a memorable stay I had to do some research to find a stretch of coastline, which wasn't too crowded yet. Over the last years Vietnam has experienced a huge increase in visitors and for…

Photographing Vietnam - Hanoi

Today I want to take you with me into one of my favorite cities - Hanoi. I've now visited this city six times during my two visits to Vietnam. It's always my stopover after travelling into the countryside of northern Vietnam. Although I stayed in Hanoi so many times now,…

Photographing Vietnam - Sapa

After visiting Mu Cang Chai we continued our travels through Vietnam and went further North towards Sapa. Of all the areas in northern Vietnam, this one is maybe the most popular. That's why Sapa town is very crowded and full of hotels and restaurants. But it's not necessarily the best…

Photographing Vietnam - Mu Cang Chai

The past few weeks I have been travelling through Vietnam and afterwards I spent a few days in Hong Kong. As usual I filmed some behind the scenes Vlogs, which I will share with you in the coming weeks. The first part of our travels took us from Hanoi to…

Photography in the Stubai Valley

This summer I visited the Stubai Valley three times. It's such a beautiful and photogenic area in the Austrian Alps that I just had to come back again and again. And I will certainly do so next year. On my recent trip into the Alps I went to photograph a…

New Zealand - Tongariro National Park

There are still some photos and stories to share from my travels around New Zealand's North Island, back in 2016. In the last article I showed you the coastlines near the Bay of Islands and Whangarei. We spent a wonderful week up there and quite interestingly didn't encounter too many…

New Zealand - Northland

New Zealand is a dream for travellers and landscape photographers. A little over a year ago I had the pleasure to visit this wonderful country for the second time already. During our travels around the world it was our next stop after leaving Australia. The last time we had been…

Australia - Victoria

As I'm writing this it's been nearly a year since we've been to Australia. A year since we drove from the Blue Mountains down to Mount Buffalo National Park. It was the longest drive yet, more than 9 hours with our campervan. And when we arrived down in the south…

Australia - New South Wales

After a wonderful stay in Noosa it was time to move on and leave the sunshine coast behind. We drove past Brisbane down towards Tweed Heads and then to a campground near Fingal Head. Two days we stayed there just 20 meters from the beach, a fluffy kookaburra bird greeting…

Australia - Queensland Part 2

The first days in Queensland had already been very diversified. We had been to the tropics around Cape Tribulation, to the rolling hills around Millaa Millaa and finally went on a boat ride through the Whitsundays. Up until now though we had not seen any kangaroos, which are the first…

Australia - Queensland Part 1

After ten weeks in South America we flew from Santiago to Sydney and from there up to Cairns. Australia was the fifth country on our tour around the world and the contrast to South America couldn't have been bigger. The houses around Cairns looked like out of a magazine, there…

Atacama

After four days in the mountains of Bolivia, we crossed the border at Hito Cajon and entered the fourth country of our tour around the world, Chile. It struck me how abrupt the change in infrastructure was. The rough dirt roads of Bolivia were transformed into paved roads just a…

Uyuni and Lipez

Our four day Jeep tour through the Bolivian highlands was certainly one of the parts of our journey, to which I was looking forward the most. I had done extended research to find a good tour agency, wrote several emails and in the end decided to go with La Torre…

Tupiza

After five days in La Paz I was desperate to get some wide scenic landscapes in front of my camera again. Our plan was to travel to Tupiza in the far south of Bolivia and from there do a four day tour through the Bolivian mountains. Most tourists head directly…

La Paz Photography

Maybe the most strenuous part of our journey through South America were the three days of travel from Puerto Maldonado in Peru to La Paz in Bolivia. But in the end it was worth the effort as you'll see in the photos below. Since there were no direct flights from…

Amazonia

Continuing our journey we took a flight from Cusco to Puerto Maldonado, which lies at the shores of the Madres de Dios river in the Amazon rainforest. We had booked a 5 day, all inclusive program at Corto Maltes, so we didn't have to worry about lodging, tours or transportation…

Cusco

In this article I share my experiences of traveling to Cusco in Peru back in 2016. This city in the Andean mountains was the next stop on our journey through Peru. The picturesque red tile roofs, the cobbled streets, the colonial architecture and the surrounding mountains - all make Cusco…

Sacred valley of the Incas

After our trouble with Cruz del Sur and an 18 hour bus ride through the mountains we were glad to arrive in Cusco, although it wasn’t our final destination for the day yet. Cusco lies at around 3500 meters elevation and the air contained much less oxygen than we were…

Huacachina Photography Guide

In this Huacachina Photography Guide, I show you the photos you can take around the Huacachina desert oasis near Ica in Peru. I talk about the following topics: As a landscape and travel photographer, I desire to find and capture beauty in the places I visit. During my travels, I…

Vilcabamba

Vilcabamba is a little town within a mountainous area in the south of Ecuador. It lies at around 1500 meters above sea level and the surrounding mountains rise up to more than 2000 meters. Although I hadn‘t seen many photos of that area I was sure that I’d be able…

Puerto Lopez

After nine days on the Galapagos islands we flew back to the ecuadorian mainland to continue our travels. In Guayaquil we had a short layover before taking a bus to Puerto Lopez. A few months ago a heavy earthquake occured in Ecuador, which hit the Manabi province just 100km north…

Galapagos - Santa Cruz

In the center of the Galapagos archipelago, right below Baltra, lies Santa Cruz. This island is not as large as Isabela, but it’s much more crowded because most of the visitors to the Galapagos Islands start their trip here. For us it was already the third stop on our travel…

Galapagos - Isabela

The second part of our long time travel brought us to the Galapagos Islands, roughly 1000km west of Ecuador. From Quito it was a short two hours flight to Baltra, a little island north of Santa Cruz and right in the center of the archipelago. We had only a short…

The cloud forest of Mindo

Mindo in the cloud forest of Ecuador was the first place we visited during our six months of traveling around the world in 2016. In this article I share our experience and some of the landscape photos I took. When we started planning the first part of this journey our…

Travelling New Zealand - Mount Cook

Finally it was time to visit New Zealand's highest mountain, Mount Cook. On the long drive up to the national park I was hoping that it wouldn't be shrouded in clouds as it was when I drove towards Lake Tekapo a week before. I was lucky. The clouds had lifted…

Travelling New Zealand – Catlins and Moeraki

After visiting Milford Sound the next stop during may way around New Zealand's South Island were the Catlins. It was a long drive and the minute I reached the coast and could read the sign "Welcome to the Catlins" I found myself in a heavy rainstorm. Winds from the sea…

Travelling New Zealand – Milford Sound

If you think of New Zealand, many of you will certainly also think of Milford Sound. It has its place in every documentary I've watched about New Zealand and it also has a huge attraction to landscape photographers all over the world. I made the detour to Milford Sound when…

Travelling New Zealand - Wanaka and Tekapo

The southern alps create diverstiy in the look of New Zealand's landscape. They block the clouds coming from the sea, which results in a lot of rain along the west coast. The midlands on the other hand are much dryer. An obvious sign are the colors of the land. As…

Travelling New Zealand - West Coast

Some time has passed since the last article of my New Zealand series. I still have some stories to share and I'll start with my travel along the rainy west coast. I might already have said this in my previous articles, but November 2014 didn't excel as being warm and…

Travelling New Zealand - Wharariki

On the northern tip of New Zealand's South Island lies the beautiful Wharariki Beach. It's a bit of a drive up there, especially with a campervan. Past Able Tasman National Park where most tourists will stop, you have to drive the Takaka Hill Highway. This is already an experience by…

Travelling New Zealand - Kaikoura

After spending one week on the North Island of New Zealand I took the Interislander Ferry from Wellington to Picton and started to explore the less populated South Island. After a lot of rain in the past days Picton greeted me with sunny skies. But I didn't linger and directly…

Travelling New Zealand - Castlepoint

The fourth part of my New Zealand travel brought me from Hobbiton to Castlepoint in the south-east of the North Island. As I wrote in the previous article I had originally planned on spending the weekend in Tongariro National Park. But plans had to be changed due to the weather.…

Travelling New Zealand - Hobbiton

After leaving Coromandel my next stop was one of the film locations from Lord of the Rings and the recent Hobbit movies - Hobbiton. I was very excited to finally see those green rolling hills myself. I had booked one of the last movie set tours at 4:30pm in hope…

Travelling New Zealand - Coromandel

After the quick stop in Auckland it was great to finally see some of New Zealands beautiful landscapes. With four weeks in New Zealand and only one week on the North Island, time was limited. So instead of trying to see and photograph it all I focussed my efforts on…

Travelling New Zealand - Auckland

As some of you might know I've been travelling New Zealand for four weeks during November and early December. It's been an awesome time but sometimes quite challenging in terms of photography. I've decided to write a few articles about this trip, focussing on the different places I stayed at…