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Serdar Ugurlu
Serdar Ugurlu from Alfter near Bonn, Germany, is a landscape photographer, mentor and founder of PhotoTours4U. His approach to landscape photography is characterised by patience and a meditative calm that has become rare in our fast-paced world. Serdar plans his tours meticulously, uses modern tools for pre-visualisation and waits patiently for the interplay of light, time and place to transform an ordinary scene into an emotional experience.
Florian Ledoux
Award-winning French landscape photographer Florian Ledoux is known for his stunning compositions that capture the beauty and fragility of nature, especially in the polar regions. His work is not only aesthetically pleasing, but also of great importance to the global environmental movement.
Blai Figueras
Blai Figueras from Spain is a former maths teacher and landscape photographer. He originally photographed mainly on the Costa Brava and the Cantabrian coast, with a preference for dynamic and dramatic seascapes in a picturesque and artistic style. However, remote and underdeveloped areas in South America and the far north of Europe have also piqued his interest.
Walter Luttenberger
Walter Luttenberger is a multi-talented travel, architecture and landscape photographer based in Gratkorn, Austria. His images are characterised by their versatility, ranging from abstract, artistic interpretations to brilliant documentary shots. He impresses with exciting perspectives and a range of compositions from detailed to minimalistically reduced.
Massimo Lupidi
Italian photographer Massimo Lupidi is self-taught and specializes in aerial and landscape photography. Massimo's work is characterized by an eye for exciting detail, an ability to see the extraordinary in the ordinary, and an innovative choice of perspective. His passion for aerial photography, shooting from great heights, is what sets him apart.
Raik Krotofil
Raik Krotofil from the Palatinate in Germany is a passionate landscape photographer. For him, each photo not only captures the fleeting moment, but also conveys the essence of his experience of nature. This is what makes his landscape photographs stand out from the crowd. Unusual perspectives, skilful integration of foreground elements and harmonious colour schemes create an elegant, artistic image effect.
Jörg Wiltink
For Jörg Wiltink from Rheinhessen, Germany, nature photography is a welcome change from his hectic everyday life. He is particularly fascinated by macro photography. Looking through the lens allows Jörg to immerse himself in a world that remains invisible to many - a world full of small wonders and fascinating details. But he also has an irresistible attraction to landscapes, which he sometimes captures in an abstract and minimalist way.
Martin Elsen
The work of aerial photographer Martin Elsen from Stade, Germany, encompasses much more than impressive landscape shots. In addition to unspoilt nature, he also captures urban regions and industrial structures in exciting reportages - always with an eye for the extraordinary. Northern Germany, with its unique landscapes, historic buildings and modern infrastructure, appears in his images as a harmonious interplay of tradition and progress.
Silvia Grimpe
Silvia Grimpe is an artistic landscape and street photographer from Hamburg, Germany, whose work is characterised by a clear, often minimalist visual language. Her photography impresses not only with its technical precision, but also with its creative ingenuity. With deliberately chosen compositions, she tells pictorial stories that fascinate through the play of light and shadow and long exposures.
Carsten Velten
Carsten Velten is a multi-award-winning nature and fine art photographer based in Bonn. His minimalist visual language is characterised by calm, geometric compositions, misty atmospheres and muted colours. As well as landscapes, he photographs architecture and urban scenes with minimalist clarity. His works combine structure, atmosphere, and formal precision to create timeless compositions.
René Schädler
René Schädler, from Baar in the canton of Zug, has been engaged in fine art landscape photography since 2017. His work is characterised by minimalism, vastness and silence. Using reduced imagery, subtle contrasts and a clear composition, he creates timeless photographs of great aesthetic tranquillity. His consistent artistic signature is underscored by international awards, publications, and exhibitions.
Stefan Schäfer
Stefan Schäfer, a multi-talented photographer from the Berlin area, has made a name for himself in the world of urban and landscape photography in just a few years. Stefan's images are created with a great deal of preparation and patience, because for him a photograph doesn't just start on location, it starts with planning. Google Earth, lighting apps and detailed research are as much a part of this as the willingness to wait for the perfect light.
Peter Scheitz
Peter Scheitz combines his passion for travel and telling stories in pictures in an impressive way. For him, Dresden is a starting point for photographic discoveries and a place to impart knowledge: He teaches basic and advanced techniques in workshops at the Knipsakademie. His work focuses on two areas - landscape and architectural photography. Both are stylistically independent, but linked by a common aesthetic: clarity, structure and visual calm.
Marzena Wieczorek
Marzena Wieczorek, a multi-talented photographer from the Lake Constance region of Germany, presents here a diverse selection of landscape and architectural images that provide just a glimpse into her extensive portfolio. This versatile photographer covers a wide range of subjects, from wildlife and nature photography to portraiture and fine art photography. As well as her documentary approach, Marzena also has a penchant for artistically abstract and creative forms of expression.
Sven Herdt
Born in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, Sven Herdt discovered his deep connection to nature as a child. His photographic focus is on landscape, animal and macro photography, covering the entire spectrum of nature photography and capturing the diversity of our world. He is particularly interested in the Nordic countries and regions of Iceland, Norway, Finland and Spitsbergen.
Christian Binder
Christian describes himself as an adventure and nature photographer. And rightly so, as his travels have taken him to some of the most remote corners of the world. Around 200,000 kilometres of travel and an almost infinite number of experiences and impressions are the result of his photographic passion. And, of course, such fantastic photographs as we see here in his selection.
Michael Breitung
Michael Breitung is a German landscape photographer with more than ten years of experience in photography and image processing. Since his first photo trip to the Grand Canyon in 2009, he has travelled and photographed in more than 30 countries. His main interests are landscape and architectural photography. He is passionate about discovering and exploring new places, always on the lookout for exciting subjects and stunning compositions.
Stefan Langenhof
Stefan Langenhof is an artistic landscape and nature photographer whose signature style is characterised by a clear reductionist approach and minimalism. He favours foggy landscapes, winter scenes, calm waters and architectural details as subjects, which he captures in balanced, serene compositions. He has been shooting primarily with analogue cameras for several years now. He uses the slower pace of this process to focus entirely on the subject, light, and composition.
Gunnar Asmus
Gunnar Asmus is an artistic nature photographer from Malente in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, who transforms ephemeral natural scenes into works of art through deliberate blurring, long exposures and multiple exposures. His favourite subjects are forests, water and the Scandinavian landscape. Gunnar not only documents external reality, but also expresses emotions and moods. In addition to his work as a photographer, he teaches photography courses at the folk high school.
Aneta Szydlak-Bleyer & Dirk Bleyer
Since the turn of the millennium, Aneta Szydlak-Bleyer and Dirk Bleyer from Berlin have been travelling the world with relentless curiosity, capturing images with their cameras. Their pictures are much more than documentations of landscapes and cultures, people and animals. They are a tribute to the diversity and wonder of our world. In their multivision shows, they also combine brilliant images with sensitive stories and background music.
Madleen Sophie Bauer
North Rhine-Westphalian nature photographer Madleen Sophie Bauer discovered her passion for photography at an early age and began capturing the beauty of nature in atmospheric images. Her images are a tribute to unspoiled nature. She captures moments that are often overlooked: a lonely beach on the Neer, the dawn on a field. It is these moments of silence that fascinate her. Without exaggerated image processing, she shows nature in its purest form.
Matthias Haltenhof
Matthias Haltenhof, a landscape and architecture photographer from Halle (Saale), Germany, is fascinated by the ability to capture the atmosphere of a place through light, composition and long exposures. He is also fascinated by the diversity of architecture, as it offers him the opportunity to document the interplay of structure and space in equally impressive ways. His images are characterised by an extraordinary clarity and a skilful balance between natural and graphic elements.
Phillip Lukas
Phillip Lukas was born in Austria and now lives in Switzerland — two Alpine countries that have clearly influenced his passion for mountains and nature. He discovered photography at a young age and has been developing his skills ever since. What began in the Alps has led him to explore the world, where new countries, foreign cultures and diverse landscapes have honed his ability to capture light, shapes and moods.
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Marte Engelbrecht
Marte Engelbrecht, a nature photographer from northern Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, combines her passion for the sea and nature with a creative and artistic approach to photography. Marte focuses on naturalness in her work. For her, the camera is the tool to capture moods and scenes - not the computer. Her images are created in the moment, directly in nature, without excessive digital post-processing.
Nina Papiorek
Nina Papiorek is a renowned photographer from Oberhausen, Germany, whose visual language is characterized by an unmistakable aesthetic and leads the viewer into a world between fine art street and (urban) landscape photography. By focusing on architecture, graphic elements and lines, her images convey an impression of loneliness and forlornness in an urban environment. A minimalist approach pervades her work, underscored by the absence of color and the exclusive use of black and white.
Kathrin Schlott
Kathrin Schlott from Munich is a freelance media designer and a passionate travel and landscape photographer. Her photographs are a declaration of love to the diversity of nature, sometimes with a love of detail and full of small wonders, sometimes as an impressive total work of art. Kathrin is not only fascinated by untouched nature, but also by the interplay between man and landscape.
Ines Mondon-Ford
Ines Mondon-Ford is a nature photographer with a distinctive artistic style. Born in the Central Ore Mountains, she now lives in Wiesbaden and has devoted herself to aesthetic nature photography for many years. What began as documenting weather phenomena evolved into a profound, personal exploration of colors, shapes, and the subtlest details of nature.
Mona Moraht
Mona Moraht, born in Hamburg in 1968 and living in Berlin since 2001, is a versatile and creative photographer. Since 2016, a particular focus of her work has been photographing abandoned places. Mona often travels many kilometres to capture the beauty and uniqueness of forgotten and dilapidated buildings. Mona also enjoys classical architecture, landscape and nature photography, always searching for the perfect moment and the unique atmosphere of a special place.
Stefan Mayr
Stefan Mayr is a photographer and photo artist from Augsburg, who not only captures images with his camera, but also tells stories. His style is characterised by a strong emotional component. He is not interested in pure representation, but in the visualisation of moods and nuances. Stefan's images are characterised by a reduction to the essential without losing depth. He sees photography as a process of discovery, allowing him to bring hidden things to light.
Ulla Moswald
The camera played a role in Ulla Moswald's life from an early age. But as is so often the case, it is the winding roads that lead to true passion. After growing up in the Ruhr area and spending many years in Berlin, the photographer now lives in the community of Tating on the North Frisian peninsula of Eiderstedt. She has found her artistic home between mudflats and clouds, tides and spray. The perfect setting for a photographer who loves the vastness and atmosphere, but also the urban structures.
Heiko Westphalen
Heiko Westphalen is a photographer and artist from Flensburg, whose work is characterised by versatility and attention to detail. His images are characterised by thoughtful composition and subtle colour contrasts. He often incorporates symmetries that contrast with the elements that dominate the image, creating tension. With this minimalist approach, he succeeds in visualising the extraordinary in the everyday and takes the viewer on a visual journey of discovery.
Michèle Thompson
Toronto-based photographer Michèle Thompson combines technical skill with emotional depth in her landscape and urban photography. What began as a personal journey towards inner balance has evolved into an impressive visual language that captures light, movement and atmosphere with great clarity. Through the use of long exposures, precise composition and an acute sense of mood, she creates pieces that convey mindfulness and expansiveness.
Uwe Schellscheidt
Uwe Schellscheid from Ratingen near Düsseldorf, originally a landscape photographer, now photographs in many other areas. He is fascinated by small things in the macro range as well as large buildings. People and wildlife photography also inspire this versatile photographer. Photo trips are also an integral part of his life and work.
DirkBee
Dirk Brune, aka DirkBee, lives near Cologne and has been specialising in people and nude photography since 2012. His focus is on unadulterated, authentic portraits and classic nude photography, mostly in black and white. He finds inspiration in nature, special places and working with his models. For him, communication is central to capturing people and their stories aesthetically and emotionally.
Christian Klepp
Dr Christian Klepp is a geoscientist, climate researcher and photographer who lives in Hamburg and combines science with artistic imagery. His work not only depicts landscapes, but also illustrates the interconnectedness of our Earth system — from rocks and oceans to the cosmos. In his astrophotography in particular, heaven and earth converge to create striking visual landscapes. His photographs convey a sense of wonder and curiosity, and reflect his desire to better understand and preserve our fragile planet.
Kerstin Bittner
Kerstin Bittner is a Hamburg-based photographer who specialises in urban and natural landscapes and their combination. Her images are characterised by clear composition and subtle colouring - often in muted pastel shades that have a noble, timeless charm. Kerstin is often able to integrate details of a landscape or structures of urban architecture harmoniously into the overall composition.
Heiko Riekers
Heiko Riekers is a multi-talented photographer from Bremen, Germany, specialising in street, people and landscape photography with an unmistakable minimalist style. Heiko sees photography as an opportunity to capture fleeting moments - moments that touch the viewer and reveal often overlooked details of everyday life. In his portraits of artists, he uses strong contrasts to bring out the energy and expressiveness of his subjects.
Heidi Nassenstein
Heidi Nassenstein, renowned photographer and native of Kiel, Germany, has traveled the world with her passion for photography and thirst for adventure, capturing countless fascinating moments. She is fascinated by creative macro photography, which gives her a new perspective on the world. In addition, landscapes and culture, often captured in a surreal and abstract way, play an important role in her photography.
Dirk Adolphs
Dirk Adolphs is a versatile people photographer from Solingen, Germany, whose work is characterised by creative depth and technical precision. His portraits are characterised by their expressiveness and authenticity. Dirk is able to establish a trusting relationship with his models that evokes genuine emotion. With a keen eye for detail, he combines technical perfection with vivid intensity, allowing each portrait to tell its own story.
Thomas Wester
Thomas Wester is a creative and versatile nature and fine art photographer from Ennepetal in the southern Ruhr area of Germany. His portfolio is exceptionally diverse and his images are characterised by clear lines, well thought-out compositions and original perspectives. He moves confidently between macro photography, dynamic wildlife photography and spectacular landscapes. The dynamism of his images and the authenticity he consistently maintains are impressive.
Jorge Maia
Jorge Maia, from Lisbon, Portugal, is a versatile and creative photographer dedicated to the art of landscape, travel and fine art photography. His roots in a city known for its beauty and cultural diversity have shaped his passion for photography. There is a clear intention behind each of his images: Jorge wants to capture and express the beauty, uniqueness and wonders of our planet.
Markus Grimm
Dr Markus Grimm from Iffeldorf, south of Munich on the picturesque shores of the Osterseen, is a passionate people photographer with a particular penchant for black and white nature shots. He is particularly fascinated by the unspoilt mountain landscapes of his homeland, where he captures the connection between man and nature in unique compositions. Another focus of his work is the element of water, which plays a central role in many of his portraits.
Jens Klettenheimer
Heidelberg-based photographer Jens Klettenheimer has made a name for himself under the brand name "schiefLicht Fotografie" with fascinating landscape photographs that show the beauty of the Nordic regions. Since 2014 he organizes photography workshops in Iceland and on the Lofoten Islands. In addition to landscape photography, portrait photography is another of Jens' specialties. Under the name "schiefschatten" he focuses on expressive black and white images.
Robert Haasmann
Robert Haasmann is an internationally renowned nature photographer based in Salzburg, Austria. He is passionate about untouched landscapes and wildlife in the most remote regions of the world. He has travelled extensively in the Alps, Alaska, the Nordic countries and New Zealand and has a keen interest in the interplay of light, landscape and wildlife. Robert's images are not only stunning snapshots, they tell stories of life in nature.
