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Horseshoe Bend – After an early morning rise at around 4:30AM local time and a short drive from Page, AZ to the Horseshoe Bend parking lot, I hiked the 3/4-mile distance in the dark (with my headlamp,) to get into a good position to capture the majestic beauty of Horseshoe Bend. While the weather wasn’t the best – low clouds prevented the rising sun from casting its warm glow onto the bend, the scene was still awe-inspiring and beautiful. I opted for a slightly different composition from ‘standard,’ to showcase the surrounding cliffs showing only a section of the bend itself. The photograph was then processed to bring out the detail in the rocks, and show the unique color scheme present at the site.

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.