Feeling really honored for receiving a gold medal in the “General Section” of the 2011 AL-THANI AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY, Quatar with my underwater photo series “Cynara”:
There’s also a limited book edition available with all the winner entries and stunning photographs.
Contribution of a photo to ‘Fit for Fun’ magazines spreadpage section called ‘Big Shot’. The shot features a riversurf session at the Waimea River which was temporarily triggered by massive storms howling over the Hawaiian Islands:
My Apnoe-addiction got a sequel when ‘Fit for Fun’ – magazine rang me up to cover the preparations and testing of Herbert Nitsch’s brandnew, yellow- painted underwater rocket-sled on the beautiful island of Santorini in Greece.
Accompanied by text editor Gunnar we spent an incredible and stunning day on Herbert’s catamaran.
The entire story will be published in ‘Fit for Fun’ – magazine, issue June or July 2012 parallel to Herbert Nitsch’s official world record attempt – backed up by his sponsor BREITLING – when he aims to crack the 250m barrier in depth.
Due to that postponed publication date I unfortunately cannot post any high end photos.
Instead I’ll provide some ‘Making-Of’ – shots:
Assigned by ‘outdoor magazine‘ I was booked to photo shoot the ascent to the ‘Grosse Zinne’ summit.
In celebration of MAMMUT’s 150th birthday adventure teams all over the planet are gathering to conquer 150 peaks worldwide until August 2012.
Our three alpine guides, Lucas, Hubert and Flavio were doing a great job and securing us six climbers. We spent an exciting and high-on-adrenaline day in the pictoresque mountain sceneries of the Dolomites.
The entire story will be published in outdoor magazine, issue #1 / 2012.
Accompanied by my brother Jo I was invited by the committee and chairman Chris Hinterobermaier to the big gala of the TRIERENBERG photo award in Linz.
I am feeling flattered being chosen for the gold medal in the category “Sports, Dynamic & Movement” out of 85.000 photo entries. 2 more photographs made it into the official book and slideshow. Here are some impressions of the award ceremony:
