About me and this website

I am 44 years at the time of this writing (March 2010). I studied architecture and I have been working at a number of offices in Aachen and Rostock, along with some self-employed work. Since 2005, I am employed at the city of Rheinfelden in south-western Germany. My family home is in Rostock, on the baltic coast on the opposite end of the country.

I started photography at about the age of ten and restarted seriously in 2002 (that's when I started this web site.) I still consider myself a not-too-serious amateur. There was a period when I was in love with compact rangefinder cameras from the 1960s and 1970s and collected them. Those days are over. I still like and use them, but most of the cameras that are reviewed on this website have since been sold. Nowadays I use digital cameras most of the time, especially a Nikon D70s that I acquired in early 2007. I plan to keep it as long as it works an then get the latest Nikon DSLR, but who knows.

I still like analog photography, though, and continue to use my Minolta SLRs and rangefinders from time to time. I adore medium format and am regularily tempted to delve into more of it or into large format. Hasselblads and Linhofs keep on showing up on ebay for three digit sums and I find it harder and harder to resist.

I started playing guitar in 1980 and restarted in 2006. Eventually I might open a music department on this website, but there's a long way to go. I am currently taking lessons in classical guitar, which is not the kind of music I like the most, but something i feel I have been missing so far.

I am married to the best girl in the world and have a son who is 18 right now and having a great time.

If you like what you read and see here, please consider making a donatinon. I am doing this for fun, but keeping up the website and answering all the questions is taking a considerable amount of time and even a little money, and I could do with some more money (who couldn't?)