I live in Markdorf, which is situated in the south of Germany close to the Lake of Constance. I have been engagaged in scannography for about 8 years. My passion for scannography began, when I did an experimental scan with a beautifully coloured autumn leaf. I was absolutely fascinated by the true colours of the scanned object. So I decided to experiment with more leaves combining them with other material.

I just couldn`t stop collecting floral material from fields, forests, meadows and gardens. I developed my own technique in order to steadily improve my scans. I finally managed to achieve artistically arranged scans built up from flowers, sap, leaves, berries, fruit, moss, bark and fungi. My scans are born from love of nature and maybe with a bit of hidden artistical talent.

Surprisingly scannography had for me a side effect which I never had dreamt of. I completely recovered from a burn out due to my job as a proposal manager in a space company for 30 years. "Back to nature" has been my slogan ever since.

Early this year 2011, I decided to write a book with a view of introducing scan users into the fantastic world of floral scannography. The book will appear some time in september this year. It will be published by Michael Nardelli who has recently founded his own publishing agency and who gives much support to my project.

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