above photo: the little daughter of one of my soccer friends joins me during the break in a game (she was one of my adopted grandchildren in China, because the mine were in Germany).
eine kleine Auswahl von 2.500 Fotos einer Reise nach Australien
Buckelwale, bottlenose dolphins, Weißbauchseeadler, Keilschwanzadler, Fischadler, Australienaar, Maskentölpel, Rotschwanz-Tropikvogel, Rußseeschwalbenpaarung, Monarchfalter, Rosellasittich, red-rump Parrot, Pennantsittich, Känguru mit Jungtier im Beutel, Wallaby, Koala versteckt sich hinter Grasvorhang, Seebär taucht auf, Diamond Python, Waran (Rosenberg’s Waran)
eine winzige Auswahl von Hunderten Fotos einer Reise nach Island
Not only I am working hard, but also playing hard – when active in my various hobbies:
playing soccer as a goalkeeper
- for 13 years, I played in China (ShenZhen) in up to 3 different teams (WED night, SAT and SUN afternoon); my SAT and SUN team organized an extremely touching farewell party end of 2017, when I stopped working regularly in China; this gallery also includes some goalkeeper action photos (Tilkowski, decades ago Germany’s National Team goalkeeper, was my idol; he was the goalkeeper in my hometown’s soccer team „Westfalia Herne“, as a young boy, I never missed any game in Herne’s stadium)
- my Sunday tean („Lao Niu“) prepared a nice and touching video about our many years of playing together, the upper photo on the right has the link to this video; photo below: my Sunday and my Saturday team (老牛，天龙) played against each other during my last Sunday in China.
- in Germany, I had played for decades as the goalkeeper in my company teams; I am again now playing with the „elderly team“ in the neighbour town.
I like to take photos, mainly nature, preferably birds
- a nice selection can be found on my national geographic photo page
- here is a selection of nature photos 1989 – 2007 which also shows the development of my skills and the hardware I used
- Antarctica was fascinating as well as Galapagos, breath-taking
- Iceland is one of my favorite locations to visit, I went there more than a dozen times
- the photo gallery list could be endless … Australia, China, Europe, North America, Seychelles … not possible to show all so I finish here with a dream I had for 20 years and realized in 2017: we went to QingHai Lake (China) and saw – besides many other interesting birds – black-necked cranes.
at almost 50 years of age, I started diving, performed several courses (achieved to get the „Master Scuba Diver“ PADI level) and have done far more than 500 dives, partially in extremely interesting and challenging dive spots.
- whale shark encounters on Maldives (photos and some videos)
- some underwater photos taken in Desroches (Seychelles), where I took an underwater photography course but decided not to become an underwater photographer
- the most challenging trip was an expedition to Aldabra, the world’s biggest raising atoll, for which I joined a marine biology research team; we investigated the coral and fish situation around Aldabra
(Almost every day, I play piano, but not very well, nonetheless, I like playing.)
Below you can see a few of my many photos, here from Antarctica (penguin and sea lion), diving (whale shark, powderblue surgeonfish & first dive together with my grandson), China (QingHai: bar-headed geese), Aldabra (giant tortoises mating)
