Best of Kenya
118 photos
Switzerland (Summer 2023)
73 photos
My Best
153 photos
The images I like best--not the ones with the most comments or clicks.
Portraits
92 photos
Interesting Architecture
42 photos
Landscapes
85 photos
Intimate Landscapes
71 photos
Minimalist landscape photography
30 photos
Abstraction in Nature
24 photos
Landscape and Architecture
27 photos
Abstraction in Architecture
43 photos
Urban Fragments
54 photos
Street Photography
38 photos
World from Above
51 photos
Overtourism
12 photos
mass tourism sucks
Pandemic Series
32 photos
The pandemic has limited our horizon, our field of view, and forced us to see our immediate environment in a different and more focused way. This album represents an attempt to become aware and...
South Africa
190 photos
Our trip to South Africa in September 2007. We visited Durban, Port Elizabeth, and Cape Town and surroundings along the coast. In th Cape Town area, we travelled through the wine country...
Ghana
207 photos
Ghana, March 2007.
Moçambique (highlights)
160 photos
Ilha de Moçambique
266 photos
The Ilha de Moçambique (Mozambique Island) owes its historic significance to its strategic location along the Swahili coast of East Africa. Inhabited by a Bantu tribe, Mozambique Island was occupied...
Nampula Province, Moçambique
107 photos
Nampula is the capital of Nampula Province in Mozambique. It has a population of over half a million and recently surpassed Beira as the second-largest city in Mozambique. It is the economic hub of...
Maputo
227 photos
Maputo, known as Lourenço Marques before independence from Portugal in 1975, is the capital and largest city of Mozambique. It is an Indian Ocean port city, with its economy centered around the...
Maputo Modernism
51 photos
Maputo has one of the most important assemblies of art deco and mid-century modernist architecture in Africa--which is almost completely unknown outside the Portuguese-speaking world.
Maputo,...
Nairobi (2021)
70 photos
Nairobi (2022)
232 photos
Nairobi (2023-24)
82 photos, 1 video
Matatus of Nairobi
66 photos
Nairobi National Park
40 photos
Nairobi National Park was established in 1946; its main entrance is only 7 km from the center of Nairobi. It is fenced on three sides, whereas the open southern boundary allows migrating wildlife to...
Kiambu County, Kenya
62 photos
Kiambu Town is the capital of Kiambu County that lies immediately to the north of Nairobi. While Kiambu has a distinct central business district, the town has become a suburb of Nairobi.
Kerio Valley, Kenya (2022)
98 photos
The Kerio Valley is is about 10 km wide and 80 km long; it is part of the Great Rift Valley in western Kenya. It is a classic example of a graben framed by escarpments that was created by two...
Kerio Valley, Kenya (2024)
55 photos
Lake Baringo, Kenya
107 photos
Lake Baringo is one of only two freshwater lakes in Kenya's Great Rift Valley--the other one being Lake Naivasha. It has a surface area of 130 square kilometers (50 sq mi) and an elevation of 970...
Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya
137 photos
Lake Nakuru National Park, established in 1961, includes Lake Nakuru in its entirety, as well as the shoreline and the hills around it. It is located just south of Nakuru Town. It has an area of 188...
Great Rift Valley, Kenya (Naivasha)
96 photos
Lake Naivasha and Hell's Gate National Park
Lake Naivasha, Kenya (Great Rift Valley)
135 photos
Naivasha Town, Kenya
46 photos
Sukoroi House, Naivasha
113 photos
Great Rift Valley, Kenya (Kajiado County)
79 photos
Champagne Ridge, Southern Rift Valley, Lake Magadi
Machakos County, Kenya
114 photos
Lamu, Kenya
230 photos
Lamu, once a major center in the Indian Ocean trade system, is the oldest and best-preserved example of a Swahili settlement in East Africa. Unlike other Swahili settlements along the East African...
Malindi, Kenya
156 photos
Kenya (highlights)
160 photos
Kenya Railways
40 photos
The history of railroads in Kenya began with the Uganda Railway, founded by the British colonial masters in 1895. Construction began at the Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa in 1896 and finished in...
Kenya Wildlife
177 photos
Birds of Kenya's Great Rift Valley
112 photos
Africa Wildlife
93 photos
African Art
39 photos
Rio de Janeiro
104 photos
Colombia (2008 highlights)
245 photos
This set contains a selection of my pictures from Colombia. For more pictures check my sets
* Bogotá
* Colombia Andes
* Colombia Caribe
* Cartagena
Colombia (2017 highlights)
122 photos
Bogotá
139 photos
Zipaquirá, Colombia
41 photos
Colombia - Andes
176 photos
Villa de Leyva, Barichara,Chicamocha Canyon, Bucaramanga
Colombia: Caribbean Coast
72 photos
The Caribbean Coast of Colombia, mostly Taganga (Santa Marta) and Tayrona National Park. My pictures from Cartagena are in a separate set:
www.flickr.com/photos/zug55/sets/72157617861893161/
Cartagena
189 photos
Santa Fe de Antioquia
73 photos
Santa Fe de Antioquia was founded in 1541 by Jorge Robledo as Villa de Santafé on the western bank of the Cauca River. It changed its name in 1584 when it became the capital of Antioquia. It was a...
Medellin, Colombia
177 photos
Manizales, Colombia
154 photos, 1 video
Popayán, Colombia
121 photos
Perú (2010 highlights)
169 photos
Perú (2014 highlights)
164 photos
This album covers the northern half of Peru.
Lima (2010)
241 photos
Lima / Huaycán (2014)
144 photos
Perú: Southern Coast
162 photos
Pachacamac, Pisco, Paracas, Nasca
Arequipa, Perú
166 photos
Cañón del Colca, Perú
102 photos
Perú: Altiplano
126 photos
Puno, Lake Titicaca, Pukara, Raqchi
Cusco
225 photos
Feast of Corpus Christi in Peru
71 photos
The Feast of Corpus Christi (Body of Christ), sometimes referred to as the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, is celebrated in the Catholic Church on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday to solemnly...
Valle Sagrado, Perú
53 photos
Machu Picchu
94 photos
Inca Culture
212 photos
Huaraz / Ancash
173 photos
Trujillo, Perú
329 photos
City of Trujillo (including Huacas de Moche and Chan Chan), region of La Libertad, and the valley of the Río Jequetepeque
Moche (Mochica) Culture
214 photos
The Moche culture was the dominant culture on Peru's North coast from about 100 CE to 800 CE.
Chimú Culture
86 photos
The Chimú culture evolved in the 9th century along Peru's North coast after the demise of the theocratic Moche culture around 800. The Chimú were subjugated by the Inca around 1470.
Chiclayo, Perú
86 photos
Chiclayo is located along Peru's North coast; at over 600,000 inhabitants, it is northern Peru's most populous city. While the Spanish first settled in the area in the 16th century, the city was not...
Cajamarca, Perú
246 photos
Cajamarca is a regional capital and important cultural and commercial center in the northern Andes. It is located in the northern highlands of Peru at approximately 2750 meters (9,020 ft). It has a...
Chachapoyas, Perú
219 photos
Kuélap / Chachapoya Culture
135 photos
The Chachapoya were one of the most interesting and mysterious of all Pre-Columbian nations in the Andes. It is unclear where they came from, but they probably were not of Andean origin. Their rise...
Peru (South): Archaeological Sites
219 photos
The Inca empire was relatively short-ived: it started as a regional culture in the southern Andean region of Peru around 1200; its period of rapid expansion and dominance of the Pacific region from...
Peru (North): Archaeological Sites
358 photos
The northern half of Peru is equally rich in archaeological sites as is the southern half. Throughout Peru, there were at least a couple of dozen identifiable Pre-Columbian cultures. Some of the...
Pre-Columbian Art in South America
249 photos
Pottery and gold and silver art from Colombia and Peru.
Ecuador (highlights)
137 photos
Quito
242 photos
Baños, Ecuador
85 photos
Cuenca, Ecuador
159 photos
The city of Cuenca, offically called Santa Ana de los cuatro ríos de Cuenca, with a population of half a million is the third-largest city in Ecuador. It is located in the Andean highlands of...
Parque Nacional Cajas, Ecuador
59 photos
The Parque Nacional Cajas (Cajas National Park) is a national park in the highlands of Ecuador. It is located about 30 km west from Cuenca. It covers an area of 285 km² and ranges in altitude...
Guayaquil, Ecuador
101 photos
Guayaquil (officially Santiago de Guayaquil) with its almost 4 million inhabitants is the most populous city in Ecuador as well as the nation's main port. It is located on the western shore of the...
Hats of the Andes
41 photos
In many areas of the Andes women wear traditional hats in everyday life--and sometimes men do as well.
Nicaragua (highlights)
134 photos
Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua
78 photos
Granada, Nicaragua
132 photos
León, Nicaragua
164 photos
Estelí, Nicaragua
106 photos
Estelí is s city of 130,000 in the Northern highlands of Nicaragua. Because of its relatively high altitude of 850 m (2,800 ft), the area has a mild climate.
Honduras (highlights)
131 photos
Tegucigalpa
139 photos
Santa Rosa de Copán
83 photos
Copán, Honduras
206 photos
Copán is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization in the Copán Department of western Honduras, not far from the border with Guatemala. It was the capital city of a major kingdom of Classic...
Copán: Museo de Escultura
178 photos
The Mayan city of Copán is famous for its artistic accomplishments: sculptures, reliefs, hieroglyphic inscriptions, altars, and stelae. Most of the original art was reconstructed and is exhibited in...
San Pedro Sula
74 photos
While the city of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, was founded in 1536, there is no colonial architecture left. With the 1874 opening of the railroad, which connected the city to the coast at Puerto...
Guatemala (highlights)
175 photos
Guatemala City
178 photos
Antigua Guatemala
199 photos
Antigua was founded in 1543 as Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala to serve as capital of the the Spanish colony of Guatemala which included all of Central America and the Mexican state of...
Lago de Atitlán
115 photos
Lake Atitlán (Lago de Atitlán) is a lake in the Guatemalan Highlands, located in the Sierra Madre mountain range. Its surface elevation is 1,562 m (5,125 ft). The lake was formed in a volcanic...
Quiriguá, Guatemala
106 photos
Quiriguá is a major Mayan site that was populated from about 200 to 900 CE. Over most of its history Quiriguá was a vassal state and trading outpost of the much larger neighboring city of Copán....
Lívingston, Guatemala
157 photos
Lívingston is a traditional Garifuna community. The origins of the Garifuna culture go back to 1635 when a slave ship from Nigeria shipwrecked near St. Vincent in the Lesser Antilles. The Africans...
Flores / Tikal
202 photos
The Petén Department includes the northern third of Guatemala. It mostly consists of sparsely populated subtropical rainforest. Most of the Maya archaeological sites are located here.
Belize
76 photos
The Spaniards first arrived in Belize in the 1520s and declared the territory a Spanish colony. But they did not establish settlements because of the resistance of the Mayas and because there were...
Mexico (1996)
47 photos
Dominican Republic
173 photos
This set contains only a few pictures of the city of Santo Domingo. For a more complete set of Santo Domingo please check here:
www.flickr.com/photos/zug55/sets/72157632648316809/
For a more...
Santo Domingo
197 photos
Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population is about 3 million.
Christopher Columbus first...
Santo Domingo: Catedral Primada de América
63 photos
The Catedral de Santa María la Menor in Santo Domingo, commonly known as Catedral Primada de América, is the oldest cathedral in the Americas. It was first considered in 1504, but construction did...
San Juan, Puerto Rico (2013)
240 photos
San Juan, Puerto Rico (2023)
186 photos
Montréal
58 photos
Toronto
83 photos
Vancouver
68 photos
Istanbul
203 photos
Istanbul: Byzantine Art and Architecture
189 photos
Istanbul: Hagia Sophia
108 photos
The Hagia Sophia was the largest and most admired cathedral in Christianity for almost a thousand years. The current building was originally constructed between 532 and 537 on the orders of the...
Istanbul: Ottoman Architecture
162 photos
Istanbul: Topkapı Palace
102 photos
The Topkapı Palace is a sprawling palace complex whose construction started in 1459--only six years after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (now Istanbul). It served as the official and primary...
Sicily (highlights)
157 photos
Syracuse, Sicily
74 photos
Noto, Sicily
116 photos
Catania / Taormina
149 photos
Ioninan Coast between Catania and Taormina
Cefalù, Sicily
157 photos
Palermo
102 photos
Monreale, Sicily
100 photos
Central Sicily
29 photos
Greek and Roman Sicily
82 photos
Norman-Arab-Byzantine Sicily
215 photos
The Normans of Northern France conquered Sicily in the years 1061 to 1091 and made Palermo their capital. The Normans ruled Sicily until 1189 when King William II died childless. The Norman King...
Sicilian Baroque
144 photos
Southeastern Sicily was devastated by a severe earthquake in 1693. Some cities, like Noto, were entirely rebuilt in the first half of the 18th century in a uniform style that is referred to as...
Portugal 1976
34 photos
Porto
181 photos
Porto Baroque
58 photos
Tui, Galicia
79 photos
Pontevedra, Galicia (2018)
120 photos
Pontevedra, Galicia (2019)
115 photos
Pontevedra, Galicia (Semana Santa 2022)
99 photos
Pontevedra, Galicia (2023)
45 photos
Santiago de Compostela
93 photos
Dublin (2019)
150 photos
Dublin (2022)
43 photos
Northern Ireland
96 photos
Belfast, Northern Ireland
177 photos
Scotland (1973)
24 photos
My first solo trip as a teenager. I took these images with my Cosina Hi-Lite on Kodachrome slide film.
Norway (highlights)
133 photos
Oslo
156 photos
Bergensbanen / Bergen Railway
67 photos
The Bergensbanen (Bergen Railway or Bergen Line) leads from Oslo to Bergen on Norway's Atlantic coast; the views from the train make this one of the world's most spectacular rail line. It opened in...
Flåm / Sognefjorden
69 photos
The Sognefjord (Sognefjorden) is the largest fjord in Norway with a total lenght of 205 km (127 m). Many smaller fjords branch off from the Sognefjord, like Aurlandsfjord and Nærøyfjord (which are...
Bergen
67 photos
Tallinn
218 photos
Tartu, Estonia
65 photos
Riga
217 photos
Vilnius
226 photos
The city of Vilnius was first mentioned in written sources in 1323 in a letter by Grand Duke Gediminas where the city was mentioned as the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. A close alliance...
Poland
47 photos
Prague
36 photos
July 2007
Amsterdam (2008)
47 photos
Amsterdam (2017)
100 photos
Brugge / Bruges
177 photos
Paris
5 photos
Lyon (1976)
24 photos
Cantal, Auvergne (2019)
99 photos
Cantal, Auvergne (2022)
134 photos
Cantal, Auvergne (2023)
65 photos
Alsace
31 photos
Salzburg
18 photos
Innsbruck
2 photos
Berlin
236 photos
Berlin 2014
104 photos
Berlin 2015-19
135 photos
Berlin 2022
62 photos
I could not help but sharing my horrible fascination with the Humboldt Forum in this album, which I was not able to see before because of the pandemic. Many viewed it as an abomination from the...
Potsdam
38 photos
Lübeck
191 photos
Lübeck: Religious Art
151 photos
Vorpommern
34 photos
Frankfurt an der Oder
6 photos
Dresden
16 photos
Thüringen
68 photos
Magdeburg
78 photos
Quedlinburg
113 photos
Halberstadt
68 photos
Wernigerode
62 photos
Goslar
130 photos
Goslar in late autumn
47 photos
Day trip from Wolfenbüttel to Goslar in November 2018. I only took my Sony 28mm f/2 and my Sony/Zeiss 55mm f/1.8 with me. Okay, I also used the Zeiss Batis 18mm f/2.8 for a couple of ultra-wide...
Harz
94 photos
Hildesheim
75 photos
Wolfenbüttel
187 photos
Wolfenbüttel 2018
79 photos
Braunschweig
48 photos
Helmstedt / Königslutter
113 photos
Wolfsburg
54 photos
Bochum
36 photos
Bonn / Köln
6 photos
Frankfurt am Main
175 photos
Kloster Eberbach / Rheingau
81 photos
Heidelberg
51 photos
Würzburg (2008–2011)
255 photos
Würzburg 2018
43 photos
Würzburg 2019
61 photos
Würzburg Baroque
103 photos
Würzburg: Festung Marienberg
63 photos
This hilltop site overlooking Würzburg and the Main river has been settled since the Bronze Age. A first castle and a church were constructed probably in the early 8th century by the Franconian...
Bamberg
89 photos
Franken
79 photos
All pictures in this set were taken in Franconia in the summer of 2008 when I lived and worked in the city of Würzburg, the capital of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken). This set does not contain any...
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
63 photos
München
93 photos
Augsburg
70 photos
Switzerland (highlights)
89 photos
Saas Fee (1966)
21 photos
Family vacation in Saas Fee in August 1966. I scanned all images from Kodachrome slides--which explains why some images are a little faded.
Genève
122 photos
Bern
47 photos
The region of Bern
Zürich
53 photos
Zug
230 photos
Zug (Winter)
50 photos
Luzern
74 photos
Zentralschweiz (Central Switzerland)
143 photos
Central Swizerland
Rigi
75 photos
Rigi 2013
58 photos
Switzerland (October 2018)
54 photos
Switzerland (Summer 2019)
61 photos
Switzerland (Summer 2022)
42 photos
Big Bend National Park
88 photos
Big Bend National Park in West Texas is one of the most beautiful (and underappreciated) national parks in the United States. It is our favorite spot for winter camping. These are digitized pictures...
Big Bend National Park (2010/11)
102 photos
Padre Island
12 photos
Texas Hill Country
109 photos
Rural Central Texas
55 photos
San Antonio
60 photos
Austin
98 photos
Austin 2019-21
180 photos
Austin: UT Campus
55 photos
Austin: Trail of Lights
19 photos
Ellsworth Kelly: Austin
66 photos
Austin: Barton Creek Greenbelt to 2014
344 photos, 1 video
The Barton Creek Greenbelt is an amazing urban nature preserve, located in the middle of the 15th largest city in the United States. I chose to arrange the pictures chronologically as the Greenbelt...
Austin: Barton Creek Greenbelt 2015
162 photos
The year 2015 in the Barton Creek Greenbelt, in chronological order
Austin: Barton Creek Greenbelt 2016-19
146 photos
Austin: Barton Creek Greenbelt (pandemic edition)
132 photos
The Barton Creek Greenbelt has been my refuge since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic has changed the way we see the world. We have lost the sweeping views and have been forced to...
Austin 2021 Polar Vortex (Snovid-21)
42 photos
The extreme winter weather in Texas had its beauty, although having no electricity and heat for two days at temperatures of up to -16° C was no fun.
Austin 2023 Ice Storm
24 photos
Austin: Halloween Flood 2013
29 photos, 2 videos
Wildflowers of Central Texas
252 photos
Central Texas is known for an amazing variety of wildflowers. All these pictures, with few exceptions, were taken in the Barton Creek Greenbelt in Austin. All of them were photographed in their...
Wildlife of Central Texas
63 photos
Two Gray Foxes
10 photos
playing in my back yard
New Mexico
14 photos
Colorado
14 photos
Arizona
10 photos
California
43 photos
Oregon
73 photos
These pictures are from a trip from San Francisco along the Pacific Coast to Northern Oregon and then on to Crater Lake and back to the Bay Area in July of 2006.
New York City
63 photos
Atlanta
124 photos
Charleston, South Carolina
49 photos
Kentucky
22 photos
Ohio
65 photos
St. Louis
22 photos
Chicago
57 photos
Milwaukee
61 photos
Minneapolis
3 photos
Family to 1981
86 photos
This is a trip down memory lane for me. I just bought a scanner, and I will upload assorted pictures from the past fifty years here.
Family 1982-1987
120 photos
Family 1987-1992
78 photos
Family 1993-1999
163 photos
Family 2000-05
51 photos
Family & Friends 2006
53 photos
Family & Friends 2007
157 photos
Sarah in Europe 2007
64 photos
Family & Friends 2008
145 photos
Family Meeting Zug July 2008
83 photos
Sarah in Europe 2008
91 photos
Family & Friends 2009
48 photos
Ayden's Fifth Birthday 2009
70 photos
Family & Friends 2010
81 photos
Family & Friends 2011
265 photos
Summer 2011
165 photos
Family & Friends 2012
246 photos
Family Summer 2012
195 photos
Family & Friends 2013
158 photos
Marta's 90th Birthday
152 photos
Family & Friends 2014
157 photos
Family & Friends 2015
230 photos
Family & Friends 2016
169 photos
Summer 2016 (Europe)
143 photos
Family & Friends 2017
254 photos
Summer 2017 (Europe)
69 photos
Martha
269 photos
1923-2018
Family & Friends 2018
200 photos
Family & Friends 2019
285 photos
Marcus & Anna
158 photos
Marcus & Anna Wedding
481 photos
Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Family & Friends 2021
240 photos
Mutanu in Austin
93 photos
Family & Friends 2022
166 photos
Family & Friends 2023
223 photos, 2 videos
Family & Friends 2024
20 photos