There was something magical about my first sight of the Mourne Mountains. Or rather, about the moment they tried to withdraw from my gaze. As if they didn’t want to…

‘How can you photograph what you see in front of you exactly as you see it?’ someone asked me recently at a garden party. The topic had evidently been on…

At Crohy Head in County Donegal stands one of the most photogenic sea arches on the Emerald Isle. The impressive rock formation is affectionately known as ‘The Breeches’, or ‘Na…

“Look to the right now! That’s the Hall of Gods,” our captain called out. What a perfectly devious trick. Anyone who says right instead of starboard on a boat is…

For the various countries and regions I photograph, I keep Google Maps into which I continuously enter places I want to visit one day. The very first entry on my…

The name Giant’s Causeway refers to an ancient legend according to which the basalt columns in Northern Ireland and on the Scottish island of Staffa were once part of a…

Downpatrick Head with its imposing sea stack Dún Briste is one of the signature points of the Wild Atlantic Way, a place one should not miss when exploring the route…

The book “Entrückt – Vom Leben auf westirischen Inseln” by Harald Hammel has just been published, and I contributed many of the photographs. It is available in bookshops and can…