I am very proud that CALVENDO has selected my calendar "Papageitaucher - charmante Clowns" for the Gold Edition and an Jury-Award. For the CALVENDO Gold Edition, the publishing team selects around 100 particularly high-quality calendar projects from over 30,000 publications. Layout, image quality, image composition and originality are taken into account. In addition, jury prizes will be awarded from among the Gold Edition winners. Sales figures have no influence on this selec

After two great wins, I have to announce a rather mediocre result in a photo contest today: I received an honorable mention for my picture "Doomsday" and in the "Black an White" photography contest, the September edition of The Artist Gallery Awards. I'm not comfortable with black and white photography, so I wasn't expecting an outstanding result. Congratulations to all the award winners! The Artist Gallery organizes a contest with changing themes every month. Here's the winn

At this year's Epson Pano Awards, I won three Silver and four Bronze Awards. My image "Cinderella's castle" (Silver Award) ranked 20th in the Amateur Built Environment/Architecture category, my image "purple hour" (Bronze Award) ranked 32nd in the same category, and my image "castle in the air" (Bronze Award) ranked 45th, also in this category. Furthermore, my image "Panta Rhei" (Silver Award) ranked 32nd in the Amateur Nature/Landscape category. It's interesting that my imag