Dirk Saeger

Focus stacking is a computational process for manipulating depth-of-field, and is especially useful for landscape and macrophotography. The author gets down and dirty with the nuts and bolts of this powerful technique.

Never one to stick to the conventional, Dirk throws caution to the wind and experiments with an ultra-wide-angle lens on his Leica M10

Part two of a photographic trip across the Southwest of the United States, beginning in Colorado, brings us all the way to California. Along the way, we get to enjoy some spectacular views of the Grand Canyon.

The Western United States, including Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, is the perfect venue for a photographic road trip. Dirk and Claudia capture the grandeur of mountains, rivers, and spectacular rock formations, in glorious colour, and black and white.

The Nikon F4 was a landmark camera when first launched, featuring a host of technological capabilities in a single body for the first time. Today it seems like an excessively heavyweight beast, but it still has some enthusiastic fans.

Newberry Springs is a small town on the edge of California's Mojave Desert. It is known as the location where the English language German film, Bagdad Cafe, by Percy Adlon was shot. Its abandoned homes, buried under sand, illustrate the power of nature to reclaim its own territory.