Manfred Zobrist is a landscape photographer from the border triangle where the German Baden-Württemberg, the French Alsace and the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt meet. He was already looking for his photographic identity at a young age and, in addition to his professional activity, tried his hand at wedding and studio photography, among other things, and in 1991 he took part in a war reportage in Croatia that lasted several months about the Balkan War.
After switching to digital photography in 2007, his interests finally shifted to travel and landscape photography, which he now focuses on whenever he finds time for it. In search of a special motif, he has traveled to Japan, northern Norway, the Faroe Islands and south-eastern Switzerland several times in recent years. He is particularly fascinated by how, after a long period of preparation, all the planning components finally come together precisely at one point and the one picture emerges from this. But just the opportunity to experience magical moments in the wonderful nature again and again and to capture them with the camera appeals to him.
Like hardly any other area, landscape photography is all about the interaction of the elements, the control of the dynamic range and the creative stretching of the recording time. From the technical point of view, the perfectionist and nature lover has consistently followed the path of filter photography for years and relies on the high-quality filters from Kase in order to implement his image ideas in the camera and to keep post-processing on the computers to a minimum.
