News
News in chronological order. Updates, new participants, changes on the site and everything else that happened on 10Photos.
[ March 2023 ]
New photographer - David Köster
David Köster, a renowned landscape photographer from Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt, captures the beauty of our earth’s natural scenery in his images. His characteristic dramatic perspectives and atmospheric light moods make his images unique and unforgettable.
[ March 2023 ]
New photographer - Luise Blumstengel
Luise Blumstengel is a portrait and people photographer from Germany. She studied media communication at the University of Chemnitz. Since 2022 Luise has been photographing in her own studio in her hometown Leipzig. In the same year, she became a Young Ambassador at the “bund professioneller portraitfotografen” (bpp).
[ March 2023 ]
Website update

Redesign of the categories. Photographers are now displayed side by side (PC, desktop) and more compactly in columns.
Optimization of the view in tablet mode.
Rewording of some texts.
Minor design changes.
[ March 2023 ]
Gallery page update - Detlev Bock
Detlev Bock is a passionate amateur photographer from Baden-Württemberg. He lives a stone's throw from the French border. He discovered his passion for photography in 2011 in Asia, where he lived for five years for professional reasons. There he realized very quickly that this time was a "once in a lifetime" event that he absolutely wanted to capture in pictures.
[ February 2023 ]
New photographer - Werner Lippert
Werner Lippert is a nature photographer from the Ruhr area. Initially still in travel photography on the road, Werner focuses since about 2010 more on nature and animals. His preferences are landscape, macro and wildlife photography. His focus on 10Photos is bird and landscape photography.
[ February 2023 ]
Website update

For the two-year anniversary, there was a somewhat more extensive page update.
Many descriptions of the photographers have been expanded.
Translation errors have been corrected, as well as some "imperfections" in the mobile view.
On the technical side, the meta texts for search engines were expanded and translated into English.
[ January 2023 ]
New photographer - Martin Krolop
Martin Krolop is a professional photographer from Cologne. He is one of the most famous German-speaking YouTubers in the field of photography. With his relaxed and, at the same time, expert way of imparting knowledge, the likeable Cologne native reaches a wide audience. The focus of Martin’s photographic work is portrait and people photography. Professionally, he focuses on the areas of advertising, action and sports, among others.
[ January 2023 ]
New photographer - Helmut Pilò
Helmut Pilò is a landscape and nature photographer from Cassino, a small town in central Italy. He discovered his passion for our nature and photography in 2016 during a trip to Iceland. His often abstract photos live from brilliant colors and the interplay between sharpness and blur.
[ January 2023 ]
New photographer - Jan-Henrik Asmus
Jan-Henrik Asmus is a wildlife and macro photographer from Kaltenkirchen in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany). He is particularly fond of simple motifs. To photograph the often seen, everyday things and to document the fascinating nature is important to him. He tries to show with his photography that every animal has a certain beauty.
[ January 2023 ]
New photographer - Beate Grever
The Cologne landscape photographer Beate Grever comes from a family of artists with Silesian roots. Growing up in Germany, a lifelong exploration took place on the basis of art and music within the tension between similar and different views and ways of life of these two cultures rich in tradition.
[ January 2023 ]
New photographer - Michael Hruschka
Michael Hruschka is a macro and nature photographer from Rain am Lech in Bavaria. Already as a child, he spent every free minute in nature and finally discovered photography for himself in 2013. In the process, he learned to see nature once again with different eyes and to perceive it much more consciously. With his first DSLR camera, he was hooked and his hobby became a passion.
[ January 2023 ]
New photographer - Wolfgang Loke
Wolfgang Loke was born in Bochum in 1967 and lives in Witten. Already at the age of 9 years his love for photography arose very early. Over a long time, he gained experience in his own darkroom and still his love is black and white photography. Thematically, the image of people (especially portrait, beauty and nude) belongs to Wolfgang’s favorite area.
[ January 2023 ]
New photographer - Astrid Emmrich-Wanless
Astrid Emmrich-Wanless is a nature photographer from Paderborn with a focus on macro photography. Her favorite subjects are flowers, butterflies and mushrooms and are mainly taken in her home and surroundings. Astrid's photography is more artistic and creative than documentary. Colors and an often purposefully used blur are an important feature of her images.
[ January 2023 ]
HAPPY NEW YEAR

Almost two years 10Photos. We say thank you! Well over 100 photographers contribute. Fantastic photo and creative artwork make this project very special. Thank you very much for that!
We live in difficult times. War, environmental disasters and an uncertain future frighten us. The feeling of powerlessness is felt by everyone. Yet. We also experience the willingness of so many to help. And the will to change something. We see people who are committed. Who live values. Who live confidence. Who create something creative. People who look ahead with confidence and hope, who don't give up. Our thanks go especially to these people.
[ January 2023 ]
New photographer - Matthias Futterer
Wildlife photography around the Kaiserstuhl, a species-rich small low mountain range in Baden-Württemberg. Matthias Futterer is an amateur photographer from Forchheim in Württemberg. He is passionate about native insects and birds. On 10Photos he has focused on the latter.
[ December 2022 ]
New photographer - Alexander Heffele
Alexander Heffele is a photographer from the town of Springe in Lower Saxony. Since 2019, he is active in the professional people, portrait and sensual area. However, topics such as beauty and fashion also inspire him and are increasingly finding their way into his varied portfolio. For professional images, he has a studio at his disposal.
[ December 2022 ]
Gallery page update - Yago de Miguel
Yago de Miguel is a passionate Spanish self-taught photographer who focuses on photographing people. He started learning with artificial light, but since 2020 he focuses mainly on daylight. Even if Yago is unsure, we know for sure, this photographer is more than creative. His often humorous images inspire, bring a smirk - even a raucous laugh - to the face. His portraits are refreshingly different. But not only the funny pictures please, his sensual works also inspire us. Here, too, he convinces with his ideas, with his sometimes unusual but always extraordinary photos.
[ December 2022 ]
New photographer - Dmitry Baev
His passion for Dutch painting and for Impressionism greatly influence Dmitry’s images. With smooth transitions between depths and highlights and muted colors, his photos almost resemble finely painted works of art. Emotional and atmospheric images, widely different from the classic portrait photography, are the result.
[ December 2022 ]
New photographer - Stefano Balma
Stefano Balma is a landscape photographer from Italy. He first started taking pictures in 2020, and a good two years later, he became a participant in 10Photos. If we weren't already impressed by his atmospheric images, we would be by now at the latest. His camera was first intended only as a slightly better travel camera but quickly developed from an initial hobby into a passion.
[ December 2022 ]
Informative
The 10Photos participants Hannes Bonzheim and Matthias Futterer launched their first book in December 2022. A picture book about native birds. Using facts, interesting facts and fantastic photos, over 100 birds are presented.
[ December 2022 ]
Gallery page update - Frederic Bauer
The nature and wildlife photographer Frederic Bauer studied art and photography. As a member of NABU, he is committed to nature, especially to the protection of species. Living in harmony with nature, respecting it, and photographing prudently is very important to him. He prefers to do without the ultimate picture than disturb animals or even destroy their habitat.
[ November 2022 ]
New photographer - Tilmann Wolfsgruber
Tilmann Wolfsgruber is a macro photographer born in 1976. He lives with his family a few kilometers north of Kaiserslautern. Since 2016 he is more intensively engaged in the photography of small things. Insects and amphibians are his main focus. He is a lecturer in the Nordpfälzer Fotoschule, where he wants to inspire other people to look at the uniqueness of nature as well as the beauty of people through the lens of a camera.
[ November 2022 ]
Gallery page update - Jörn Wallenwein
Jörn Wallenwein is an ambitious nature and macro photographer. Architectural photography (especially in black and white) is another focus of interest.
[ November 2022 ]
New photographer - Carola Bührmann
Carola Bührmann is a photographer from Hamburg. She has been a lecturer of biology and anatomy at the MTA school in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, for over 20 years. The focus of her photography is portraits or people in general. However, the versatile artist also likes to look beyond photographic boundaries and so you can also find shots of lost places, classical architecture, objects, and much more in her portfolio.
[ November 2022 ]
New photographer - Stefan Schaub
Stefan Schaub is a macro photographer from Eltville in the Rheingau region of Hesse. He has been involved in photography since 2011. This is for him the ideal complement and a balance for the busy and often stressful everyday life. Maybe even a little more, because Stefan writes about himself that photography is his passion.
[ November 2022 ]
New photographer - Hans Strand
Hans Strand is a Swedish nature photographer from Marmaverken. Since 1990, after a nine-year career in engineering, he has been working as a professional landscape photographer. By now Hans is one of the best known and respected landscape photographers in Europe. He shoots in medium format with Hasselblad cameras and his photos are published worldwide.
[ November 2022 ]
New photographer - Ute Kloß
Ute Kloß is a nature photographer with a focus on macro photography. Her favorite subjects are plants and flowers, which she mainly photographs in the morning. Insects and amphibians are other coveted motifs.
[ November 2022 ]
New photographer - Peter Kächele
Peter Kächele is a portrait and people photographer from Bad Urach, a small Swabian town. His hobby of photography has developed into a passion. All photographers try to capture the light, put it on the chip, and use it to create an image. For Peter, light is a means to an end. He primarily wants to capture personalities and emotions. One thing in advance, he succeeds!
[ November 2022 ]
New photographer - Olaf Liesche
Olaf Liesche is a nature photographer from Castrop-Rauxel in North Rhine-Westphalia. His passion is wildlife photography. Most mornings he is out and about in his local habitat. Quietly, cautiously and very carefully, as if he is a part of nature. He tells us that he often doesn't need camouflage when doing this. Many animals accept him and instinctively understand that he poses no danger. Format-filling photos are then the results.
[ November 2022 ]
New photographer - Enrico Bollin
Enrico Bollin is a nature photographer from North Rhine-Westphalia. His passion is macro photography. The small things that you hardly notice when walking through the forest and meadow, he photographs in a creative way. Detail shots, but also pictures with special perspectives Enrico makes very happy. Bird photography is another focus of his hobby.
[ November 2022 ]
New photographer - Lina Grüppe
Lina is a nature photographer from Grafschaft Bentheim in the southwest of Lower Saxony. She was born in 2007. At the age of 15, she was added to 10Photos. Thus, she was and is the youngest photographer who made it to this platform. When you see her fantastic pictures, you may not believe her young age.
[ November 2022 ]
New photographer - Bill Ferngren
Bill is a Swedish landscape and nature photographer. He says he likes challenges and loves to photograph things that you usually pass by unnoticed. Trees in fog, the small stream in the forest, meadows that can inspire new motifs or just a plant on a tree. Maybe not always such spectacular subjects, but Bill takes a spectacular photo of them. He sees details, finds the perfect perspective and captures the mood at the right moment.
[ November 2022 ]
New photographer - Michael Martin
This could be the shortest text of a photographer's description here on 10Photos. The photos of Michael Martin speak for themselves - ready! - But Michael puts a huge spoke in our wheel. It's not just his incredible photos that fascinate us, it's also the photographer. Geo magazine called him the most famous globetrotter in Germany. We also think he is the most interesting globetrotter in Germany.
[ November 2022 ]
Photo update – Michèle Thompson
Michèle Thompson is a Canadian photographer. Her artist name is Magpie'n'Moo, a mixture of the two nicknames from her childhood. Her images focus on Canadian nature and photos of Canadian cities. She also loves to capture movement in cities and enjoys working with slow shutter speeds. This results in colorful and dynamic shots.
[ November 2022 ]
New photographer - Roman Tsymbal
Roman Tsymbal is a portrait, nude and fashion photographer from Western Ukraine. His images captivate with a fascinating diversity. Creativity instead of boredom is an important principle of his work. For him, a photo must be atmospheric, while also reflecting the mood of the person being photographed. The results are soulful and authentic photographs.
[ November 2022 ]
New photographer - Jason Pettit
Jason is a landscape photographer from Canada. With his work he wants to convey a simple and powerful message: There is more to nature than what you see on the surface. His images are less documentary and more artistic, often abstract and full of fascinating colors and shapes. He undoubtedly makes us see nature with different eyes with his photos. When a forest in winter becomes a work of art, it is clear: this is landscape photography at its best!
[ November 2022 ]
New photographer - Carsten Velten
Carsten Velten is a nature and landscape photographer from Bonn. He likes a simple, plain and sometimes minimalist image composition. The motto: Less is sometimes more is perfectly implemented in his pictures. Carsten combines beautiful subtle colors with clear structures in his pictures. The result is a harmonious, almost soothing photo, which undoubtedly reflects the beauty of the landscape. Partially abstract images show nature then still in a pleasantly different way.
[ November 2022 ]
New photographer - Lothar Dörfer
Lothar is a fashion and people photographer from St. Johann in the Swabian Jura (German: Schwäbische Alb). Other focal points of his work are nude photography and composing.
Lothar learned photography self-taught. His images are characterized by a fine-art processing and a wonderful creativity. Colors are important to Lothar, many of his shots are color intensive, but always very harmonious. This sets him apart from many people photographers. Color as a stylistic device.
[ October 2022 ]
New photographer - Gabriele Rigon
Gabriele Rigon is an Italian photographer of people and nudes. Capturing the aesthetics of femininity and rendering it in still images is his primary goal. In doing so, he likes to work with the same models over and over again. A good working relationship and trust in each other is a very important and often underestimated part of people's photography, especially when there is little material between the photographer and model. It is precisely this trust, but also the friendship that has developed, that provides the necessary relaxation so that the camera becomes a tool to perfectly capture emotions and moments.
[ October 2022 ]
New photographer - Jens Ober
Jens Ober is a nature photographer from Central Hesse. Besides classical landscape photography, astrophotography is a focus of his work. Classic photos, but also abstract images can be found in his varied portfolio.
[ October 2022 ]
New photographer - Andri Geir Jónasson
Andri was born and raised in Iceland. His ambition is not to document or describe, he wants to artfully represent nature with his images. Abstract and minimalist shots are often the result.
[ October 2022 ]
New photographer - Ralf Schilberg
Ralf Schilberg photographs exclusively in black and white, always focusing on the play between light and darkness. In doing so, he loves to tell stories with his photos. However, this does not apply to classic portraits, because portraits do not need a story, faces tell their own stories. That's why his portraits are reduced, almost strictly focused on the personality, whether celebrity or model from next door.
[ October 2022 ]
New photographer - Jeremy Jackson
Prof. Dr. Jeremy Jackson has been photographing our nature in an impressive way for over 30 years. Colors and shapes are an important design element. His goal is to convey the meaning of the natural world in focused, clean, exciting and direct images. One thing in advance: this succeeds 100%.
[ October 2022 ]
New photographer - Katarzyna Słomińska
Katarzyna Słomińska is a portrait photographer from Warsaw (Poland). She has been doing photography as a hobby since 2018. Besides classic portraits, her portfolio also includes sensual images.
[ October 2022 ]
New photographer - Julia Redl
Julia Redl presents an emotional and atmospheric selection of landscape photos on 10Photos. Abstract artworks and classic photography mainly of untouched nature inspire by colors as well as shapes and transport the viewer into a calm and peaceful world.
[ October 2022 ]
New photographer - Robert Christ
The Upper Palatinate photographer Robert Christ shows us on 10Fotos images in the field of reduced and experimental photography. For image composition, Robert likes to use long exposures and unusual angles. His work has already received several awards.
[ October 2022 ]
Website update
The preview images of the galleries are now displayed in WEBP format. This means less data is transferred and the loading speed is increased.
Fixed unattractive formatting in the mobile view.
[ September 2o22 ]
Informative
The two 10Photos photographers Thorben Danke and Stephan Heinemann , together with five other macro photographers, have published an exciting book with Rheinwerk Verlag.
Ganz nah dran: Makrofotografie Ideen, Motive, Workshops
Eindrucksvolle Makros und der Weg dorthin.
[ September 2022 ]
New photographer - Perdita Petzl
Perdita Petzl is an Austrian nature photographer. She photographs sensitively and emotionally. Her images are often characterized by delicate colors, soft light, and an extraordinary bokeh. But also abstract and reduced photographic works can be found in her portfolio. Sometimes colorful, sometimes monochrome, sometimes fabulously playful, her photos are usually not purely documentary. Rather, Perdita wants to give intimate insights into the magical world of insects and animals, tell little stories and awaken emotions in the viewer.
[ September 2022 ]
Website update
The images of 10Photos are now delivered in WEBP format. This increases the loading speed by about 60%. Most current browsers can display this format since 2019. A qualitative difference is almost non-existent.
Bug fix for displaying images in older browsers.
The German-language site has been changed to a gender-sensitive spelling.
Addendum from August: Introducing 10Photos on the Swiss blog BeInspired.
The gallery pages of the photographers were provided with a narrow sidebar.
[ September 2022 ]
New photographer - Christian Alpert
Christian is a passionate hobby photographer from Hannover. The focus of his photography is nature photography. Besides the local flora and fauna, Christian is enthusiastic about the African continent with its diversity.
[ August 2022 ]
New photographer - Frederic Bauer
The nature and wildlife photographer Frederic Bauer studied art and photography. As a member of NABU, he is committed to nature, especially to the protection of species. Living in harmony with nature, respecting it, and photographing prudently is very important to him. He prefers to do without the ultimate picture than disturb animals or even destroy their habitat.
[ August 2022 ]
Website update
Photographer of the hour in the right sidebar.
The favorites page has been optimized. Categories can now be selected by random image.
The menus have been visually and functionally revised.
A randomly selected photographer is shown via the menu item "At good luck". A category can be selected in the submenu.
Various small things and improvements, typos and translations corrected.
[ August 2022 ]
New photographer - Bernie Rothauer
Born and living in Salzburg/Austria, Bernie Rothauer (stage name ôbaxé_arts) has made artistic creation his purpose in life. He is a full-time musician (percussion, guitar), and specialist in ethnic rhythms from West Africa, Brazil, and Cuba. He supports and coaches other musicians* in their productions in his recording studio. He shoots music videos and translates messages into images.
[ August 2022 ]
Photo update – Jörn Wallenwein
Jörn Wallenwein is an ambitious nature and macro photographer. Architectural photography (especially in black and white) is another focus of interest.
[ August 2022 ]
New photographer - Pascal Uehli
As a photographer, Pascal Uehli is interested in reduction, simplicity, and naturalness. This is reflected in his passion, for black-and-white photography. Here there are no colors that distract from the essential. This opens up different possibilities of representations and interpretations.
[ August 2022 ]
New photographer - Madleen Sophie Bauer
Madleen Sophie is a nature photographer from North Rhine-Westphalia. Her enthusiasm for nature can be seen very clearly in the atmospheric and soulful photographs. Born in 2004, Madleen Sophie was only 17 years old when 10Photos captured her and her images.
[ August 2022 ]
New photographer - Gabriela Vogel
Gabriela Vogel is a travel and nature photographer, with a focus on auroras and waterfalls. The fascination of the mountains, especially the Swiss Alps, is also noticeable in the sympathetic photographer.
[ July 2022 ]
Website update
This news page has been created. The random images in the sidebar and mobile view can now be "remixed".
The mobile view was further optimized.
Improve page performance.
[ July 2022 ]
New photographer - Christian Angerer
Christian Angerer is an internationally active photographer with a focus on people and portrait photography. His passion is cinematic photography, mainly in black and white, but also in color.
[ July 2022 ]
Photo update – Yvonne Nicole Warbinek
Yvonne Nicole Warbinek is an ambitious nature and macro photographer. She is particularly fond of badgers, a species that is difficult to photograph due to its mainly nocturnal activity.
[ July 2022 ]
New photographer - Andrea Pozzi
Internationally renowned photographer, adventurer, and storyteller Andrea Pozzi were born in 1984 in Bormio, an idyllic town in northern Lombardy (Italy).
[ July 2022 ]
New photographer - Unai Larraya
Unai Larraya, is a photographer, videographer, guide, and trainer. He was born in 2000 in Pamplona, Navarre, where he currently lives. The multi-award-winning photographer's great passion is to photograph and capture the world's natural landscapes and wildlife.
[ July 2022 ]
New photographer - Phillip Lukas
Phillip discovered his passion for photography early on. From his quite photogenic home country of Austria, he was drawn to faraway places. There he got to know new countries and cultures and developed a special eye for beauty to capture it as perfectly as possible.
[ July 2022 ]
New photographer - Christopher Cocks

In addition to digital composings and symbiotic collaborations with artists in music, painting, and sculpture, Christopher Cocks' photographic focus is on people photography.
[ June 2022 ]
Facelift
The sidebar was equipped with additional icons. Likewise, the mobile view was optimized.
[ June 2022 ]
Website update
Security has been improved. A specially programmed caching provides better protection against hacker attacks and speeds up the page. The Google PageSpeed Index is now normally above 95.
Quotes at the top of the cover image have been added.
[ May 2022 ]
New photographer - Sarah Böhm
Sarah Böhm was born in Frankfurt an der Oder in 1989. After studying veterinary medicine in Berlin, she works as an official veterinarian in Neuruppin in the field of animal welfare, animal disease control, and veterinary drug monitoring.
[ May 2022 ]
New photographer - Ramesh Karmakar
Ramesh Karmakar is an ambitious nature and wildlife photographer from India. His main focus is bird photography. Ramesh documents very successfully the domestic bird world. He not only emphasizes diversity, but he also shows the dazzling and beautiful animals very varied and in the best light.
[ May 2022 ]
New photographer - Dieter Mendzigall
Dieter Mendzigall was born in 1963 in Hildesheim and lives in Diekholzen, a small town in Lower Saxony. The fascination with traveling was the trigger for Dieter to deal with photography. Therefore, it is not surprising that the photographic focus is travel and landscape photography. For Dieter, being on the road and photography are inseparable - whether in a canoe, on a bicycle, or on foot.
[ May 2022 ]
New photographer - Michael Robben
Michael Robben, an amateur photographer from Oldenburg, still looking for the subject. For him, photographing and editing is a meditative and exciting process. To reinterpret or alienate reality through photography is an almost inexhaustible pool.
[ May 2022 ]
New photographer - René Schädler
René Schädler describes himself as a fine art outdoor photographer. In the Swiss mountains or on lonely coasts he finds the peace and solitude necessary for him and his pictures. He likes to compare landscape photography with model photography, only that the model does not move in nature.
[ May 2022 ]
New photographer - Hannes Bonzheim
Hannes Bonzheim is a passionate wildlife photographer born in 2004. Besides photographing native birds (his main focus), he is an ICARUS Ambassador and Young Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Biology as well as an active volunteer for the Kaiserstuhl Nature Center, amateur ornithologist, conservationist and nature photographer.
[ May 2022 ]
New photographer - Robin Riddle
Robin Riddle is a professional photographer who specializes in landscape and architectural photography from both ground and aerial perspectives. His photography focuses on the simplicity and beauty of nature, often with an air of mystery. He is drawn to the peace and tranquility of sunrise and sunset when the light is soft and atmospheric.
[ May 2022 ]
New photographer - Blai Figueras
Blai Firueras is a landscape photographer on the Costa Brava and Cantabrian coast with a preference for dynamic and dramatic seascapes with a picturesque and artistic style.
[ May 2022 ]
New contact form
Due to masses of spam mails via the contact form, a request was created to make it more difficult for spambots to send messages.
Web pages are now transferred in GZIP format. This increases the loading speed.
The view on tablets has been improved. Unfortunately, there are still unattractive displays on some Android devices. Tablets and WordPress don't seem to like each other very much.
[ May 2022 ]
New photographer - Anton Plotnikov
Anton Plotnikov is a Russian portrait photographer who studied with Igor Sakharov-Ross in Saint Petersburg. His style is characterized by minimalism, the person is the focus, not the packaging. In beauty and fashion shoots he likes to surprise and show what you don't expect on social media.
[ May 2022 ]
New photographer - Sven-Kristian Wolf
Sven-Kristian Wolf is a conceptual photographer from Salzburg who works almost exclusively in series. The former musician gets ideas from literature and music - the camera is exclusively a means to an end.
[ April 2022 ]
New photographer - Mirko Wagenschütz
Mirko Wagenschütz, a very creative fine art photographer with a focus on photographing people in the style of the old masters.
[ April 2022 ]
New photographer - Mona Moraht
The photography of lost places, whose motifs Mona finds all over Europe, has been her focus since 2016. In addition, architecture, landscape and nature photography are among her favorite genres.
[ April 2022 ]
New photographer - Tobias Helling
Sympathetic bird and nature photographer Tobias from southern Germany. Focus of his photographic passion are charadriiformes.