I have produced images for the annual CHC-Calendar years ago in 2007 and 2008, then there was a long pause...now, this year, I had the honour to do it again, thought about the concept...and came up with something new: This time I took really close portraits of people who are involved with the project on both continents, Africa and Europe.
The Portraits were matched/combined by Nana Cunz (Graphic designer) and me. MoPostproduction put the final "shine" on the images...thank you for your input and collaboration!!

Free work, produced in Germany, using "Full Moon - light" to illuminate the scenes...
The series is inspired by Hermann Hesse´s poem "Nachtgedanken"

Free work, produced in Hessen, Germany
Wonderful car, American V8, still smells like gasoline...I love it!

Amateur racers get together to celebrate a few laps on the "Hockenheim-Ring" in Germany which opens its gets to private drivers on some weekends.

Free work, produced in Frankfurt, Germany
Car by ARCollector
Postproduction by RAW Sheperds

aerial shots of Miami taken from a helicopter

Jever still images shot on Sylt (Germany) following the production of the newest Jever advertising Spot.

These shots were taken inside of some Lufthansa cockpits. The goal was to capture early and late light situations during flight.

Another production for Lufthansa, this time we are dealing with a business man in Vancouver, Canada.
Beautiful city!!

These images were shot in Miami´s Wynwood district for Lufthansa.
They show some of the amazing murals that were created by various artists.

Images that were created using CGI technology to let them fly.
Backgrounds are Southern France and Miami, USA.

Part of an extensive shoot for Lufthansa in Capetown, South Africa.
A business man is portrayed at home and in the city.

German landscapes shot from above

Images shot in a private home in Capetown, S.A.

Upcycling describes the process of taking apart Lufthansa planes that have left the fleet´s active service, and thus generating new value by creating furniture, wallets, deco elements etc. out of the "trash".
In Teruel, Spain, the planes are being taken apart, then the "filet parts" are further treated at the manufacturer´s companies.
Finally we see entirely new products.

Moments captured during a "track day" at Bilster Berg racetrack in Germany.
The event was organized by Supercar Drivers Circle.

Portraits shot in Africa, in Capetown and Nairobi.
Amazing, how direct those models look at you. I still get thrilled when I have those very open, positive people facing me! Fantastic!!

Part of an extensive shoot for Lufthansa in Capetown, South Africa.
A business woman is portrayed at home and in the city.

Three images of Vancouver.
These were shot in 2018, the plan was to promote Vancouver as an ideal destination for outdoor living.

Then the wildfires came...

Still, quite cool pictures!

Here we have some images of young "best-friends" traveling and exploring the American West...

various images are shown here that represent the updated Lufthansa look

The story was shot in Scotland, portraying two very special destinations within the airline industry.
One deals with the only airport located on a beach, that can only be serviced during low tide.
The other one is about the shortest listed and scheduled commercial flights between Westray and Papa Westray in Scotland.

This series shows more or less well known attractions of Los Angeles, CA.
All images shot from a helicopter.
Postproduction: Mainworks, Frankfurt

Images shot in Southern Germany for AUER.
The company produces Flightcases in various shapes and sizes, this production was focussed at cases for outdoor gear (hunting and fishing).
Production: Lutz Hegenbarth, Berlin
Postproduction: MoPostproduction, Frankfurt

Those images were created for Lufthansa to show the new Livery that had been presented to the public in February 2018.
Backgrounds are shot from helicopters, planes are CGI, perfectly created by Marcin Gruszczyk and MoPostproduction.

Images shot on the way from Miami to Key West.
Incredible colours, beautiful sunlight...

Sun, wind, clouds, rain generating most spectacular colors in Namibia

A series of images portraying the trivial traces that humans leave in the endless expanses of the deserts

Renderings of the famous Junkers Ju52
CGI by Marcin Gruszczyk, MoCGI
Postproduction: MoPostproduction, Frankfurt

The campaign was shot at Frankfurt Airport, the people who appear are real fraport employees portrayed in their job surroundings.
Agency: Damm & Bierbaum, Frankfurt
AD: Silke Sannemann
Postproduction: MoPostproduction, Frankfurt

Images were shot in Capetown, South Africa.
Production: Solar Productions
Model: Francesca Lynch
Postproduction: MoPostproduction, Frankfurt

JeverFun images shot on Sylt.
The agency was Ogilvy&Mather, Frankfurt.
Artdirection: Patrick Willomitzer, Production: Lutz Hegenbarth

FistClass Service of Lufthansa, before you even board the plane..there also is a pick up service and a beautiful FirstClassTerminal.

Fascinating landscape images shot from a small plane in Namibia. It almost felt like being on another planet seeing those deserted regions of the world.

People Shooting for Lufthansa in Berlin.
Customers are using their mobile devices to book flights, check in, or make other arrangements.
All portrayed customers also appear in several other shootings "on Board" and "at home".

Design studies of the Airbus A350, the latest Airbus model to be introduced to the Lufthansa fleet.
It will be operated mostly out of Munich.
Backgrounds were shot from a helicopter and at Munich airport on the ground, the plane is CGI.

People Shooting inside a Lufthansa jet, featuring BusinessClass - food service.

The Lufthansa Lockheed Superstar, the first plane that made the trip from Frankfurt to New York non-stop without refueling, shown here in a series of CGI-rendered images. Backdrops were shot in New York and Arizona, USA.

These images were shot at BioNtech, a company producing individualized cancer treatment. BioNtech is using Siemens software to make the process smoother and faster.
Assignment for Siemens/Ogilvy & Mather

Those images were captured during two trips within central India.
Helpalliance supports various projects in India, we had the chance to visit and document the life of Pradeep and Sangita in their individual environments.
It was a very involving editorial assignment.

The day of a business man in New York City, using his mobile devices to make flight arrangements etc.
We brought Calvin, our model, who lives in Frankfurt now, to New York, his hometown to photograph him there...strange world sometimes.

Landscape series shot from a helicopter over the German Alps. Some of the images are used as backdrops in combination with CGI-rendered planes.

Editorial story about Mark Webber in his final season of racing for Porsche.
This series was shot before, during and after a race on the most famous racetrack "Nürburgring" in Germany.
Mark´s team ended up being victorious.

After having completed an editorial job in Chile, I decided to take a couple of extra days in Southern Chile to shoot some landscapes.
Here they are!

A short visit to Klaus Ohlmann´s beautiful airport in the french "Hautes Alpes".
He was the first glider pilot to cross the Himalaya.
I got the chance to fly with him in his world record plane.
That was an unbelievable flight experience, very calm...but very intense!

various Shootings involving cars and planes, some for NOKIA, Mitsubishi, MAN, Skoda, "Matador Magazine" and "Manager Magazine",
locations in Germany, Spain, USA, Chile.

These images were taken at a power plant near Shoayba, where Siemens provides the technology and KnowHow to operate the facility.
Agency was Ogilvy & Mather, Frankfurt.

CGI-planes (boeing 747-8, Airbus A380, A320 and a private Jet) combined with "real" shots out of a helicopter and from or off the ground.
Locations were in Germany and the US.

Alaska is a piece of land so huge and wild that you have to use a plane (preferably a water plane) to visit people that live in remote areas...there simply isn´t a street or highway to get there.
The author and me spent a couple of days with the pilots of Alaskan Air, went to meet grizzlys and polar bears to produce an editorial story for Lufthansa Magazine...

various portrait/people shootings for magazines and agencies, involving magazines such as Spiegel, Stern, Manager Magazin.
Clients like Porsche, Mercedes, Mitsubishi, Wick Medinait...

Incredibly dedicated people:
Daniel Aufdenblatten and Richard Lehner, the two people who performed the highest ever helicopter rescue mission in the mountains.
They went to terrains higher than 7.000 meters within the Himalaya...
world record! ...and both of them are still pretty much down to earth!
We shot them for Lufthansa Magazine in Zermatt, CH.

That was a very interesting job. I tried my best to protect camera and lenses against even the smallest particles of paint...forgetting to put a filter into my oxygen mask.
Anyway, it was a great experience to watch how these painters get the job done to spray a plane the size of an Airbus A380!

We produced this editorial story about Dan Silveira, US national spearfishing Champion in his hometown Half Moon Bay, close to San Francisco.
Dan took us along with him for two days. So we got the chance to get an insight view into his daily routine involving bicycling, diving, hunting, cooking etc.
He is pretty much what you would call an outdoor man.

My second visit to the Breitling Wingwalkers, this time for Playboy-Magazine, Sebastian Tromm is the author...and the brave man on the wing...

Coming to life is a very long, tough process for an airplane...or its manufacturer.
Uncountable test-programs, quality checks and so on.
I witnessed a good part of the efforts that went into getting the first Lufthansa A 380 airborne.

That shoot was part of a Siemens campaign, illustrating Siemens´ know how in electrical mobility.
Agency behind that: Ogilvy & Mather, Frankfurt.

The "Lufthansa Berlin Stiftung" is operating one of the last remaining airworthy Junkers Ju 52.
Each year, in early springtime, on the German island of Usedom pilots are undergoing training to renew their licenses for flying the famous plane.
I was there for two days to document the procedures.

Aerial images of Rio de Janeiro and Recife, shot from a helicopter and a plane.

Editorial portrait produced on Gran Canaria island where Philip Köster lives and trains.
He has won the windsurf world championship three times.
We had the chance to follow him for two days and get a chance to understand how important it is for him to actually live right next to the water.

Scottish landscapes, mostly shot in the highlands and on the Isle of Skye.
Scotland´s dramatic landscapes and rapidly changing weather patterns are fascinating to me.

Alexander Gerst, the third astronaut from Germany who would finally spend time on the ISS.
We were allowed to watch him being trained at ATCA, the fight training facility operated by Lufthansa in the US where almost all future Lufthansa pilots go through their basic training.
That story was produced before Alex finally took off to the ISS.

I have a thing for deserts and deserted places...I guess that shows sometimes...;-)

People shoot prior to the opening of the Satellite Terminal at Munich airport.
Various photography and film teams spend a whole week with the production in Munich. My team was there for three days.

San Francisco early in the morning and late in the evening...captured from a helicopter.

I spent a couple of days with young Lufthansa Trainees in the desert of Arizona. I sensed a great spirit in that wonderful place! Thank you!

Aerial shots of NYC, photographed in two sessions, before and after completion of One World Trade Center.

Building a Boeing 747-8 is a complex process, I had the chance to watch some steps at Being´s huge construction site in Everett, close to Seattle, USA.

Shoot for Lufthansa. People enjoying First Class Service on Board of a Lufthansa A380.

Help Alliance supports school children in Vietnam by providing bicycles to them to make their travel from home to school and back easier.
We were invited to show what life looks like for two families, one living in the countryside, the other one closer to the city.

This is an editorial story portraying Danny MacAskill, shot on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Danny is a well known trial-biker who became famous due to his videos on youtube.

Author Tim Cappelmann and me were invited to accompany an "expedition cruise" from Punta Arenas in Chile to Ushuaia in Argentina. This editorial story was published in Lufthansa Magazine.

People shootings in various Lufthansa Lounges.
The guests relax, enjoy food, beverages and comfort.

Images shot in various locations portraying everyday situations in corporate life.

This series was shot in Norway, close to Tromsö, during a period of strong solar activity.

Cargo Human Care is a non-profit organization put to life by Lufthansa Cargo pilots, namely by Fokko Doyen, the Cargo fleet commander.
CHC supports children in Kenya.
They built and help to operate an orphanage for children who lost their parents to AIDS.
CHC also supports a medical station that is part of the overall project.
I was there three times to produce images used for calendar productions.

That was a shoot for Lufthansa, showing people using their mobile devices to plan their trips, to check in, etc.
Produced in a beautiful private location in Stuttgart, Germany.

In Mozambique the company "BioFuel" experiments with producing jet-fuel from the oil extracted from Jatropha nuts.

Monika Zimmermann, European "Sports-Aerobics" Champion 2015; Lilli Kaiser, Carlos Meyer, a famous "parkour"-artist and their team working out in Frankfurt/Germany

Editorial story shot in Capricorn, a township close to Capetown.
Children of the township are enabled to attend school due to a financial program initiated by "help alliance".
Author of the story was Moritz Herrmann, it was published in Lufthansa Magazine.

Acceptance and ferry flight of an Embraer 195 aircraft in Brazil.
Lufthansa technicians check the plane just before its delivery to the fleet, then they fly it to its new home base in Cologne,Germany, in this case via Recife, Brazil.

The dunes in Sossusvlei, Fish River Canyon and other remote places in Namibia.
Namibia is an exciting "empty" place...

My first visit to the Breitling Wingwalkers in England.
With me was Tim Cappelmann, writing the story for Lufthansa Magazin.
We watched the wing walkers train, Tim flew on the wing and we also attended an air show in London.

This Siemens job took us to Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, USA.
The idea was to show how Siemens technology helps to improve water quality within the bay and how people benefit from that effect.
Assignment for Siemens, Agency was Ogilvy & Mather, New York

Capetown landscape shots taken from a helicopter.
Capetown, Camps Bay and the whole coastal region in interesting light.

While documenting the process of building Boeing´s 747-8, I also photographed a series of "people at Boeing", it shows employees of the Company in a wide range of jobs, among them chief engineer Joe Sutter, who had already developed the original 747 back in the 1960´s.
Also a member of the K-nine-team (explosives sniffing dogs) was portrayed.