Under Fire
At Munster training area the German army is pushing soldiers each year through a special drill. It‘s name is Soldat im Feuer, which means that during this drill all shooting is done with live amunition. The soldiers are under extreme permanent phyical and mental stress to simulate a real combat situation. attacked by heavy ordnance, tanks, grenades this day gives a good insight what could happen on missions abroad. This is often done together with troops from neighbouring countries.
Visa pour l’Image
A quick and dirty edited review of my impressions from this year’s Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan.
That were great days. Thanks and regards to all the guys I met there!
Shot with Canon 5D Mark II, 50mm 1,8, 28mm 1,8 and Moviestick.
Schools for Africa
Luzile Xhosa, the principal of the school, talks about the way the school is run, why learning English is important for the children and could be a way into a better future.The school is funded by a Canadian charity project: Tour operator Marianne Schubeck from Victoria, BC is raising money to get this preprimary school going and to give a future to the children.
Lynx
A first test of the Canon 5D MK II ‘s video-function. Shot at ISO 800 with EF 300mm/2,8 + 2x Ext. at f 5,6 and EF 28mm/1,8 at f 1,8 and f 22.
I shot these scenes at Harz Mountain National Park in northern Germany where they have a very succesful reintroductery project for the Lynx. The Lynx in this video live in an enclosure to show visitors of the park how these cats look like and how they live. The enclosure is the public relations part of the reintroductery project.
For this shot I used a rig build from parts I allready have in my toolbox. I think handling the camera with a rig makes thinks easier and more convenient.
Music by Kevin MacLeod.
USS Truman CVN 75
These pictures show the last four days on US carrier Harry S Truman before the war against Iraq started in March 2003. With a displacement of 91300 tons the Truman is one of the biggest war-machines of all times.
Township Golfkids
Alexandra is one of the oldest and biggest townships in South Africa. As a suburb of Johannesburg it is a diverse social system of an estimated 450.000 people living in all kinds of housing. From shacks to nice house with big garages. Here Peter, a 62 year old golfpro teaches kids five times a week playing golf on a soccer field.
On Safari…
Shot on two Game Drives at Balule Game reserve with a Canon HF 100. There the Pondoro Game Lodge is an excellent base to enjoy the bush and to see the wild African animals. The Game Reserve borders Kruger which means that there is no fence between them and Kruger an that the game can roam free between the park an the reserve.
Art of the Bushmen
Over hundreds of years Bushmen in southern Africa painted their visions, dreams and thoughts as pictures on caev walls. This slideshow gives a hort impression of their work.
Tourism in the Eastern Cape
Some see south Africa’s eastern Cape as the fuure tourism hotspot in the area.
This is an interview with the head ranger of Amakhal Game Lodge about the past and the future of this region
zeitwildnisharz
A long term project at Harz Mountains National Park supported by Leica Camera AG. 1 National Park, 8 view points, 365 days. At 8 fixed points the rangers took 1 photo a day at fixed view points with preinstalled tripods: As a result there are 8 photoseries now which document the change of the nature in the park. Find out more about this project on the zeitwildnisharz website (in German) >>
A future for Lesotho
The small village of Malealea could be a role model for a developement of a tourism indutry in one of the worlds poorest countries.
The owner Mick Jones speaks about past and future of a forgotten land.
God in Germany
A Project of Photographers of VISUM Agency, Hamburg, supported by Leica Camera AG
“We are Pope” was the headline of Germany`s largest newspaper BILD when Joseph Kardinal Ratzinger became Benedict XVI last year. It was the first time after 500 years that a german became head of the Catholic church. Giving out the guidelines for millions worldwide we take a deeper look into his home country.
Religion in Germany is much dominated by christian traditions of the Catholic and the Protestant Church. Both suffer from considerable loss of members but nonetheless the traces of christian rituals maintain their ground and still mark the corner posts of our life: from birth to death and inbetween the ceremonies of Wedding, Easter, Christmas and the like. The modern West might not be fond of dogma anymore, but apparently we yearn for rituals which seem to be the common language of all spiritual quests. Just remember the funeral of Pope John Paul II and the following World Youth Day in Cologne with Pope Benedikt XVI, who then was featured as a popstar by german youth magazine ãBravoÒ. What does this mean and how do the churches react to this phenomenon when on the other side they have to close down their places of worship for lack of churchgoers and lack of funds?
This is a project of the following VISUM photographers:
Bernd Anrnold Christian Burkert Thomas Dashuber Jesco Denzel Sven Doering Peter Duddek Christopher Clem Franken Dirk Gebhardt Björn Göttlicher David Klammer Carsten Koall Thomas Langreder Jörg Mueller Ralf Niemzig Rolf Nobel Kai Remmers Heiko Specht Wolfgang Steche Stefan Sobotta Nicole Werner
Winter Road
The Tibbit to Contwoyto Winter Road is the worlds longest
heavy haul ice road in the world. Each year it‘s build to supply all the
diesel and harware, that‘s needed to keep the gold- and diamondmines
running over the year. Building and mantaining the 50m wide strip over the ice
is a challenge in an environment where the temperature often drops below -40°C.
The road stretches over more than 560km through the arctic tundra, but it last only
two to three month before the ice melts again in spring.
