Wide landscapes – the origin of my photography

There are places that make you pause. Places where your gaze wanders far across the landscape and you forget everything around you for a moment. It is these moments of vastness and silence that led me to photography – and they remain with me to this day.

In this collection, I present photographs that capture precisely this feeling: the wide horizon, the interplay of light and weather, and the unadulterated beauty of natural landscapes – from near and far.

It was this type of landscape photography that originally drew me to photography: the sweeping view over untouched landscapes, over horizons that seem to stretch endlessly. Such moments have become rare today – and perhaps that is precisely why they are so special.

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When I'm out and about with my camera, I'm looking for exactly this feeling: freedom, tranquillity, grandeur. These are the moments when you simply stop, take a deep breath and let the scenery sink in.

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Over time, spending so many days outdoors in nature drew me deeper and deeper into the landscape. I began to see not only the vastness, but also the fine details – the light sweeping across a meadow, the structure of a rock, the lines of a river.

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The photos on this page come from regions that could hardly be more different: from the unspectacular but quietly beautiful Lower Rhine to the Lake District in England to the endless expanses of Namibia and South Africa. There are also impressions from the Netherlands, France, Norway and Denmark – each country with its own unique atmosphere and colourfulness.

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I invite you to browse through these pictures, feel the vastness and perhaps even get a little wanderlust yourself.