The day of arrival yesterday was very eventful. A 10-hour flight from Frankfurt to Tokyo, around 3 hours by taxi through downtown and a helicopter flight over one of the most dazzling cities in the world. I won't have time for...

With a flight from Frankfurt via Japan - Tokio - my journey to Indonesia began today. My destinations for underwater photography are Raja Ampat - Irian Jaya - and Bali in Indonesia.

This time I am using the Lufthansa First...

The Japanese airline - Japan Airlines (JAL) - writes in their customer magazine - JournAL - Issue 58 - January 2007 - about my work and my next journey to Japan (Tokio) and Indonesia (Irian Jaya - Raja Ampat - Bali). I will...

The thirst for energy of the up-and-coming industrialised nations such as India and China, with their 2.5 billion inhabitants together, will strongly increase the demand for uranium for atomic energy in the near future. The...

The American company Kodak is selling its X-ray business from its Kodak Health Group for about 2.5 billion dollars, in order to concentrate on its core business in digital photography. I just don't understand this decision, as...

When I bought my first Nikon professional digital camera 2-3 years ago, I was often smiled at condescendingly. Digital photography would never take over the professional arena. I always answered with the conviction that soon...

The Year of the Dolphin: www.yod2007.org

This will not help the cheerful creature much, as it is just one more feel-good action of our consumer society. I have had enough of on the one hand hearing about maximising...

In my regular perusal of the financial press, I read some articles about David Swensen a couple of days ago. I have now started to read his book "Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment", though it...

Via Zeit Blog - Category Economics - Herd Instinct - Robert von Heusinger

Greed is good... as was recognised already by the fictional character Gordon Gecko (played by Michael Douglas) in the film "Wall Street" from 1987....

I have discovered a very interesting Open End Certificate (Index Certificate SG0HP7) from the major French bank Société Générale, which is based on the Private Equity Total Return Index - PRIVEX -. Behind the PRIVEX lie the large...