In the press
I have been taking photos as long as I can remember and received my first camera with 5 years of age with rather questionable results, of course, but the interested grew exponentially and you have to start somewhere, don’t you?
I was adoring my father shooting studio portraits and street-photography with his Leica IIf at that time, which I still have and keep as a memory of my late father. When I turned eleven years of age, I got a Practica reflex camera and I was allowed to join my father to the dark-room seeing how the monochrome photos develop and what one could do in “post-production”. It became my big hobby as a teen-ager.
At the age of 17 I went on my first sailing adventure and I was allowed to borrow my father’s old Leica IIf on a 2 months sailing adventure from Norfolk, Virginia all the way down to Florida, rounding Key West and sail to Placida Harbour, just south of Tampa on the west coast of Florida, USA. It was on the famous and already at that time classic wooden 62 foot Sparkman & Stephens designed yawl Refanut, built in 1952 in Stockholm, which still belongs to Peder Wallenberg in Sweden.
Two early sailing photos taken with my father’s Leica IIf onboard S/Y Refanut sailing along the east coast of America when I was 17 back in 1981.
Ever since, my passion has been to inspire others to fulfil their sailing dreams and my way has been through teaching, photography, holding talks and writing books and articles in the major sailing magazines.
When the worlds’ biggest boat show (boot Düsseldorf) turned 50 years old some years ago, they came out with a jubilee magazine illustrating the 50 most influential sailors for the past 50 years. I am especially proud of the fact that I was one of the these chosen 50 sailors, sharing this list with Humphrey Bogart, Boris Herrmann, Tim Kröger, Laura Dekker… etc in their “50th Jubilee Magazine”.
Example of one of my latest 8-pages articles on celestial navigation. The first two pages being a double page spread of a photo capturing the atmosphere and the feeling of ocean sailing.
Below some published articles
