This Trip To Madeira Was By Far My Most Exciting One, Here Are 21 Magical Pictures I Took There

I'm a 38-year-old photographer from Berlin. 8 years ago, I moved from Berlin to Switzerland. I fell in love with the landscapes here in Switzerland from the beginning but in the first years, I wasn't really thinking about taking pictures.

I started with photography almost 5 years ago. At that time, I bought a motorbike and drove past the streets here. I was so amazed by the huge mountains but every time I tried taking pictures with my phone, it didn't feel the same. So I bought a semi-professional camera (Sony a5100) and started to take pictures with that. However, these pictures also didn't quite translate what I was seeing and feeling at that moment. That was the moment when I really started to be interested in photography. I was reading a lot about various techniques, compositions and postprocessing. I found a group about night photography and I saw for the first time in my life pictures of the Milky Way. I was thinking that can't be real, so I went out and tried it myself.

Most of my shots have a story but I like it when the viewers tell the story of my photographs themselves and not me as the creator. That makes me the happiest when I see someone getting some feelings or becoming emotional when looking at my pictures.

The most challenging part of the creative process for me is the postprocessing right now. My pictures become more and more complex. Some of my pictures depend on 100 or more separate photographs, which I combine to reduce the noise and increase the dynamic range of an image. Also, the planning of my shots takes a bit of time. Everything has to be perfect. The location, the weather, the motive and the direction of the sky. All of that has to be planned beforehand.

Unfortunately, I got some health issues in the last 2 years which don't let me take pictures as much as I would want. I am collecting a lot of ideas in my little note, which I'm hoping to realize as soon as I get healthy again. I would love to go to China for a few weeks to take pictures there.