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«Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate and very sophisticated»

-Sir David Attenborough

Romania 2024

Romania 26.04-03.05.2024   Romania may not be the first destination that comes to mind for herping in Europe, but it definitely deserves a spot on your list! The country boasts a diverse range of reptiles, stunning landscapes, and incredibly friendly herpers. For this trip, my goal was to find the three viper species native to Romania:…

Namibia 2023

10 years ago I was in Sweden and photographed captive Bitis cornuta and caudalis, and ever since that moment I’ve had a dream to see and photograph these species in the wild. And this year the dream finally was fullfilled!  Since my ordinary travelling company was occupied with other travels I invited some people to…

Uganda 2022

Uganda, september 2022 A trip to Uganda was planned all through 2019, and deals was made and plane tickets was booked – and a few weeks before departure the whole world changed in march 2020. And we had to postpone the trip. In 2022 when things was getting back to normal, we again got in…

Spania 2021

Northern Spain 2021 In the end of September I saw that my danish friend, Henrik Bringsøe, was visiting the northern parts of Spain with good luck – inspired by this I contacted Albert Gonzales to check if it still was possible to see some vipers in the second week of october. Not only could he…

Israel 2019

Israel is the meeting point for the herpetofauna from North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and there over 100 reptilers in this small country! No wonder it has been on my list to visit for some years already.  Finally it all panned out, and I travelled south with the two fellow herpers, Kriss…

Thailand 2018

Again it was time for a trip back to Thailand. This trip had been in the making since our last trip back in september 2016. Again we travelled with the amazing crew from Tontan Travel. If you ever consider doing a herping trip to Thailand, be sure to look them up. They are simply the…

Italy & Switzerland 2018

I got invited to join «ze Germans» for a short trip to Piemonte in the italian alps, to look for Vipera walser early may in 2018, and who could say no to trip like that ? We drove from Frankfurt in Germany, and on the way back from Italy we decied to also look for…

USA – 2017

28.08-06.09.2017 was spent in Arizona, and a couple of short trips into New Mexico, with my two friends Are and Tom. Who both are amazing photographers! Our main target for this trip was to see as many rattlesnake species as possible. We had the target of seeing 10 species in total, 1 for each day.…

Captive and studio

I do also take great pleasure in shooting reptiles from captive collections, in both studio settings and in their terraria. And also sometimes I get the chance to shoot wild animals in studio settings, as this sometimes gives the chance to really show them from their best side!

Se more photoshoots
Variation in adders
Ethiopian adders
Mangshan viper

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