Corona has led to some necessary changes in this year's program. Workshops can now be offered online if there is interest. In this case the focus will be on microscope imaging.

For next year the first dates are already fixed. There are - as usually - workshops, which take place in Schloß Weinberg and there are also excursions to interesting places in Austria.

More about the events can be found here. 

From the pictures taken during the workshop "Naturfotografie im Frühling" I have compiled a small gallery.
In addition, there are also some impressions that give an insight into the workshop activities.

We hoped it and now it becomes true! The first workshop can take place. it will take plade at Wildalpen. Since we will be primarily outdoors, adherence to the corona rules is no problem and the accommodations are "corona-fit" too.

There are still some places left. Please book directly with the Prager Fotoschule. 

I am currently dismantling the exhibition "Ein Blick in die Natur", an exhibition that featured 70 images. Of these, 49 large format prints presented on the wall, the remaining pictures in three presentation boxes.

The Galerie Schloss Weinberg is a wonderful place to present these pictures. I have known and appreciated the location for many years. First as a student of the Prager Fotoschule and then as a presenter of many different workshops around topics of photography.

Unfortunately, due to Covid, the exhibition could not be visited as planned, the castle is closed and also our hope for the opening at Easter was disappointed. Only a handful of people were able to visit the exhibition on site. That this situation is unsatisfactory for the artist/photographer and also for the host gallery can surely be understood by everyone and inspired me to offer virtual tours directly from the gallery. So about 100 people from Austria and abroad could see the pictures. For me and probably for most of the visitors this was a premiere and I will offer such virtual tours also at future exhibitions. The big advantage is the direct contact with the visitors and the possibility to answer questions about the pictures directly.

Despite all the limitations, I am very glad that the exhibition was not canceled and my special thanks go to Sepp for printing and mounting the pictures, competent assistance in selecting and hanging the pictures and who is - last but not least - a good friend to me.

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What do you do when you have set up an exhibition and no visitors can come? Exactly, you use digital technology and organize virtual tours of the exhibition. The tours come directly from the exhibition rooms in the Galerie Schloss Weinberg. During the tours I am not only presenting the pictures but I am also telling about used techniques. More information on how to participate in the tours can be found here. The tours will not be recorded.

In the current magazine of the Verein fuer Tier- und Naturfotografie (VTNOE) I describe in an article the most important steps for the preparation of conifer needles and how I photograph them afterwards under the microscope. Currently I process the needles either "fresh" or fixed and stained. The advantages and disadvantages of each method are briefly described. If you want more information or want to try photographing with the microscope yourself, you can do so in my workshop.