What am I doing ?

Sometimes I answer: I’m making every day black and white images to earn my life. I’m a radiologist by profession, a physicist and physician by graduation. 

Beside scientific research I always felt attracted by music, literature, painting and art.

After times of painting in watercolor, oil and sketching I restarted photography in 2005  with my first digital SLR, a Canon 350D. After a couple of years of poking around in the dark I discovered astrophotography in 2010.

Physical properties of lenses, telescopes and of sensors had to be understood. I became familiar with technical details of image acquisition and editing under a cosmos of conditions.

And I found a way back to the light at daytime. Only recent with a friend we combined digital images of photo sensors and x-ray sensors to get beautiful results.

The sky is the limit.

Julian Köpke

Heidelberg, November 2018