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Sailing Photographer
@ricpicks Jan 21, 2022, 12:15 PM UTC

Open seas

There is a beauty when far away from land. Endless horizons, endless sea - just you, your vessel and the sea. Getting decent photos from waves is a difficult task. I hope I did succeed somewhat. In t…

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Sailing Photographer
@ricpicks Jan 18, 2022, 2:28 PM UTC

The sea in black and white

Even though I am in my 7th year of photography - made almost 100k photos, created 2 terra byte of data, gained the better half of one million likes and drew a lot of fantasy into peoples heads, I sti…

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Sailing Photographer
@ricpicks Jan 15, 2022, 1:44 PM UTC

Distance is to see how far you can travel

Since I earn my money with sailing I try to sail as much as I can in the year and this one was extraordinaire. All in all I was 10 consecutive months on the water working. Feeling the salt on my face…

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Sailing Photographer
@ricpicks Dec 23, 2021, 1:40 AM UTC

Crossing the Atlantic - 13 days without covid [Blog]

Crossing the Atlantic has been number one on my bucket list for at least 5 years now. I had a handful opportunities to do so but at the end a important part always was missing. Which was a payment to…

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Sailing Photographer
@ricpicks Dec 1, 2021, 11:16 PM UTC

Magic moments at sea - adventure - peace and fredom inclusive =)

It is now my 3rd week in the cape verdian archipelligo and I had plenty of opportunity to make sail and make photos. So it is time to show you some of these moments. The three mast clipper Golden Lee…

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Sailing Photographer
@ricpicks Nov 28, 2021, 7:26 PM UTC

Sao Nicolau - A Island with 12000 tourists per year - Cape Verdian Island Hike [BLOG]

Since 2 weeks I do have the pleasure to sail in the region of Cape Verde. Located on the west coast of Africa, the Cape Verdians are 2 chains of islands that do offer a lot of nature but lack tourism…

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Sailing Photographer
@ricpicks Nov 19, 2021, 6:15 PM UTC

Cape verdian sunsets taken from a sailing vessel

And of cause not all sunsets are fabulous BUT they still can leave a deep impression on one self and photography wise I still think I made something out of it. This was taken in front of the Island B…

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Sailing Photographer
@ricpicks Nov 16, 2021, 8:51 PM UTC

SALTY - Sailor Portraits

Over the years I took quite some portraits of people who went to sea. Captains, Skippers, Mates, Guests and everything in between. I love grumpy old salty sailor faces. How about you? https://www.you…

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Sailing Photographer
@ricpicks Nov 15, 2021, 9:40 PM UTC

3 sunsets on my way to cape verde

I was sailing from spain to cape verde in the past 3 weeks and here are three sunsets I saw. At this moment I am working a 55 meter sailing vessel and it was a great crossing from Europe to Afrika. I…

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Sailing Photographer
@ricpicks Aug 16, 2021, 8:09 PM UTC

6 years of my life - 6 years sailing [Video & Blog]

A guy from saxony became a sailor I never had anything to do with water or the sea's other that my dad was born in Wismar (at the east German northsea). Grown up in Saxony, I was as far away from sea…

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