The Norwegian company Opera Software ASA is taking over the Australian FastMail.fm. I have been using the www.Opera.com browser for years, and manage all my email with www.FastMail.fm and www.Spamarrest.com....

Via gettyimages I have come across the magazine "New Scientist". They use a humpback whale picture of mine in their article "On the geological succession of organic beings". I took the photo in South Africa, on the "wild coast -...

I joined tripit.com today. This is a very useful tool for organising flights, particularly as an iPhone app. You just send tripit your online reservation by email, and they manage the flight. Delays, flight time changes, gate...

I am now a member of the Society of German Wildlife Photographers (Gesellschaft Deutscher Tierfotografen) GDT. In joining up I would like to make my small contribution to showing nature to be worth protecting through spectacular...

I had decided to make a short visit to the German Oceanographic Museum and the Ozeaneum in the Hanse city of Stralsund. On the way back to Stralsund I flew via Berlin, where the fashion trade show "Bread and Butter" and the...

announcement for a new calendar 2010

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By coincidence I have come across an internet link from BBC.co.uk with fantastic photos of humpback whales. One of the photos was taken by me ;-)

www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/worldonthemove/species/humpback-whale

In order to dive in the Cenote , one should stay for a few days at the Playa de Carmen and choose the Yucatek divers for the diving program. They are a VERY well led diving school, and also organise the hotel stay.

I was in Mexico for three weeks to photograph sailfish by the island Isla Mujeres and Cenote (both in Yucatan - starting off point is Cancun). With Lufthansa the flight is straightforward from Frankfurt to Mexico City, and then...