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Captured during a workshop in the Page, AZ area, led by fine art photographer Alain Briot. This workshop centered around composition and artistic style; the subjects for the photo shoots were Page and its surroundings, most notably the stunning upper and lower Antelope Canyons. These slot canyons are on Navajo land, so to visit, a Navajo guide is required. While quite touristy, the majestic beauty of the underground canyons is hard to beat. Light shafts, shifting according to time of year, and of course time of day, provide fun subjects to photograph. The Navajo guides frequently will throw sand into the column to give the photographer an opportunity to better capture the shaft in camera. The above photograph was taken in upper Antelope canyon. I liked the repeating wall patterns on the right of the image, and the ghostly appearance of the light shaft.

I was born in Luxembourg, Europe and moved to Zürich, Switzerland to attend university at the “Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich.” While my main interest in school has been the sciences (my degree is MSc ETH in theoretical physics,) at an early age I started to feel something missing - the 'yang' to my scientific 'yin,' so to speak. That is when I grabbed a camera with some lenses, and chose to make photographs (ca. 1979.) I am inspired by painters like van Gogh, Monet, Renoir, or Cézanne, as well as Botticelli, Caravaccio, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Rembrandt. Photographically, artists like Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams, and contemporarily, Michael Reichmann, and Alain Briot.