ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm Michael and I'm excited to share with you my passion for Landscape / Wildlife / Sport Photography. Through my pictures, I try to show you the beauty of our planet while remaining faithful to the reality in post-production. Actually, every location that I explore, near or far, will make me discover a new wonder that I want to immortalize for you!

I'm a 30 years old swiss guy living around Lausanne close to the Leman lake. This lake is a wonderful place in Switzerland and has already inspired many artists. I work as a teacher part time where I enjoy transmitting my knowledge to younger generations. This work is therefore giving me time for photography.

My main goal in photography is to show you the loveliness and the richness of our planet, so that you want to develop a closer connection to the nature. In this context of global warming and the overexploitation of the resources available, a part of my work tends to create a feeling to protect our nature and the diversity of the species living in it by cherishing our planet. By sharing my pictures with you, I also hope to inspire you, to give you a taste to discover our world or to go for an adventure!

AWARDS:

This picture won the third place of the CEWE Photo Award competition "my switzerland" where the goal was to present a photo showing a feature of the country. I'm so glad that my work is recognized!

This picture won the place 11-30 of the famous CEWE Photo Award 2021! This is the biggest competition in the world and my picture was selected by the jury among more than 600'000 photos. I'm so glad to get the honor to represent the theme of the competition "the beauty of our world" with my picture.

TYPE OF PHOTOGRAPHY:

Landscape Photography allows me to show you the treasures that Earth is hiding. Every location is full of surprises with a careful observation and can amaze you. Photography gives us the possibility to frame a part of the landscape. By choosing the right position and angle, I can share with you

the beauty that I saw with my eye. The environment is also changing and has to be considered. A cloud moving, a sun setting, a storm coming or a sun showing after the rain is an opportunity to catch an intense moment to highlight an element of the landscape.

PASSIONS:

Being always attracted to discover the world, I jumped at the opportunity to go to Australia in order to improve my English in a school. By traveling in this spectacular country, I walked hours to explore every corner and to take pictures with an old compact digital camera. Every day was a meeting with a new landscape, a new wildlife or an unbelievable detail. That's how my passion for photography all started!

This year in Australia was also the trigger for a second passion; living close to the ocean, a friend suggested me to try surfing. From the first session, I was feeling so good only just being in the water. Moreover, it's an even better feeling to be one with a wave, a powerful and unpredictable element of the nature.

The logo of this website represents therefore my 3 passions that can be combined together: photography, nature and surfing.

WORK:

As a photographer, my goal is to find the most beautiful details in the nature and to emphasize them with a good composition. I can wait a long time to catch the best time of the day, the best scene and light of the moment. It requires an advanced planning for every trip, but also to adapt to the conditions and to unexpected events. Nowadays everyone is editing images, so I have chosen to remain as close as possible from the reality by working with colors, contrast and sharpness.

This vision allows me thus to share in my pictures my emotions before the breathtaking wealth that Earth can offers us.