...here you'll find a number of publications, where I had the pleasure to, where asked to, had to, or wanted to contribute one or the other underground image...

Very worth reading is the 'Jahresheft 2008' of the ARGE Grabenstetten, with reports on the research in the Vetterhöhle, the Brunnensteinhöhlen, the Tote Gebirge, and other areas of exploration. The expedition report of our 2009 expedition into Lechuguilla cave is illustrated by numerous images by Rainer Straub, Jörg Haussmann and myself, and the title image was contributed by myself as well. In addition, the volume features a picture galery of the Schneevulkanhalle - der larges Ice chamber in the world - the result of a joint photographic expedition of Stephan + Angela Lang, Leo Klimmer, Robert Winkler, Saskia Bartmann and myself. Enjoy!

Das Jahresheft 2008 der Arge Grabenstetten; 148 pp.; Grabenstetten 2009; order via e-mail: info@arge-grabenstetten.de

The new magazine "Höhlen in Baden-Württemberg" produced by the Staatsanzeiger Verlag in cooperation with the ARGE Grabenstetten is a well-illustrated and nicely edited volume featuring various aspects of speleological research in SW-Germany. Highly recommended!

Höhlen in Baden-Württemberg, Editors: Wilfried Rosendahl / Thilo Müller / Arbeitsgemeinschaft Höhle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V./ Staatsanzeiger-Verlag. 2009, 88 pp., 136 fig., 21 x 28 cm, ISBN 978-3-929981-76-6. Order via e-mail: info@arge-grabenstetten.de; 10 Euro (8 Euro plus 2 Euro shipping within Germany).

"Underground worlds 2010", edited by Andi Schober, features images from Germany, France, Spain, Romania, New Zealand, Austria, and the USA. Apart from the title - the awesome 178 m entrance shaft of Harwoods Hole in New Zealand - I contributed 3 further images, including an unusual view of the classical 'Chandelier Ballroom' in Lechuguilla Cave (New Mexico).

The prize is 15.90€ plus 4.50 € shipping (within Germany; please ask Andi for international shipping charges). The formate is A3 29.7 x 42 cm. Order via e-mail directly from Andi Schober (Tel. +49-7022-604808) or for instance at SpeleoConcepts.

!! New photobook - available now!!

'Inside Mother Earth' by Max Wisshak

A Fantastic Journey into Our Planet's Interior. Nearly the entire surface of the Earth has been photographed and documented. Our world has grown too small for us. But has everything really been researched, surveyed and settled, designed and built upon as we see it? When we turn our gaze inward and view the Earth's interior, we discover new and far greater dimensions. Max Wisshak's flashbulbs illuminate realms that otherwise dwell in eternal darkness, where he photographs a hidden world full of fairytale beauty.

With his artistic sensitivity for contrast and pictorial composition, he has succeeded in creating pictures which capture the magic that awaits travelers who dare to descend into the depths of the Earth, to enter an inner world and delve into the roots of our essential being. In the midst of this wondrous world stands the solitary human being, small, with no one but himself to rely upon, and connected to life on the surface like a spider hanging from a gossamer thread.

This photobook by the dedicated scientist, speleologist and photographer Max Wisshak is not only a highlight for speleologists and geologists, but also and above all for people who are interested in nature and who haven't yet forgotten how to gaze in awe at the beauty of our world.

- Preface by Prof. Dr. Ernst Waldemar Bauer
(book author, biologist, television publicist and documentary filmmaker)

- Introductory text "Getting to the Bottom of Caves" by Max Wisshak
(geologist, paleontologist and photographer)

- Foreword "A Journey into the Interior" by Angela Lang
(speleologist and photographer)

-Foreword "Light in the Darkness" by Jean-Pierre Bartholeyns
(head of the department of cave conservation of the 'International Union of Speleology')

ISBN 978-3-934020-67-2
dimensions 24 x 30 cm
144 full-color photographs on 152 pages
texts in German, English, French
hardcover thread-bound with dust jacket
price 49,90 EUR (incl. tax)

In dedicated book stores,
via Internet e.g. at amazon.de, amazon.fr & amazon.co.uk,
and various speleo book dealers, as for instance at
Speleo-Projecs (Switzerland)
Speleo Concepts (Germany)
Buchhandlung Aegis (Germany)
Expé (France)
Spelunca Librairie (France)
Librairie Speleo (Belgium)
Speleobooks (USA)
NSS Bookstore (USA),

or simply directly at the Edition Reuss.

Images from 'Inside Mother Earth' at www.FOCUS.it

Rezension and a number of views of 'Inside Mother Earth' at www.PHOTOSAPIENS.com

Images from 'Inside Mother Earth' alongside a text by Oliver Gerstenberger at www.GOFOTOX.de

Images from 'Inside Mother Earth' at www.JABULELA.com

'Inside Mother Earth' was nominated for the 'Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2009' and is presented on a touring exhibition together with the award winning titles:

Quite unfamiliar for me before instead of behind the camera - for the title story on extremophiles "Die Zweite Welt" [the second world] in GEO issue 3/09, writer Lars Abromeit and photographer Carsten Peter joined microbiologist Hazel Barton and myself, as supporting actor as geologist, into Lechuguilla cave in New Mexico (USA).

The website www.WELTDERWUNDER.de.msn.com features an interview with me on various aspects of speleology - accompanied by an extensive image gallery selected from 'Inside Mother Earth'.

Images from 'Inside Mother Earth' at www.STERN.de

Formate: A3 (29,7 x 43,7 cm) Prize: CHF 25.– / € 14.50 (Ordering online at Speleo-Projects)

"Underground worlds 2009" - The ARGE Grabenstetten caving calender - edited by Andi Schober. The 2009 edition features images from Germany, France, Spain and USA. Including two images of mine.

The comprehensive monography of the Grotte Saint Marcel in the Ardèche region (France) comprises numerous detailed maps and many underground images, among wich a couple of images taken by myself, and my cave photography colleagues Andreas Schober and Gaspard Magarinos (ISBN 2-9517215-6-0).

The October issue 07 of the Digital Photographer (Ukrainian edition) contains an extensive story on cave photography featuring images and portraits of Peter Gedei, Tony Merino, Kasia & Marcin Gala, Andreas Schober, and myself.

"Underground worlds 2008" - The ARGE Grabenstetten caving calender - edited by Andi Schober. The 2008 edition features images from Germany, France, Slovenia, Malaysia, Montenegro and the UK. This jear with an ice-cave image produced in collaboration with Stephan Lang in the Beibelkareishöhle (Reiteralm, Germany).

Speleo Projects is celebrating the 25. caving calendar! Therefore, 24 postcards featuring showcaves of the world were added at the end of the regular calendar. The twelve months feature images from caves of Australia, China, France, Iran, Malaysia, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland, the USA and Venezuela. Among these, one of my ice cave images (October) taken in the classical "Hall of the Circe" in the Eiskogelhöhle (Tennengebirge, Austria).

The April 2007 News issue of the National Speleological Society is entirely devoted to the topic Lechuguilla - and is featuring several of my images taken during the May 2006 expedition, which gave me the opportunity to visit this Jewel of the underground.

In der May 2007 issue of natur+kosmos you'll find the portfolio and text "Im Bauch der Erde" featuring images taken in the Aven Noir (France), Gouffre Berger (France), and Eiskogelhöhle (Austria).

Price: € 5,00; ISSN 0723-5038

Two new franconian guidebooks with the one or the other of my images were released around in end of 2006, beginning of 2007. Firstly, Thomas Hübners "25 mal Fränkische Schweiz" (Heinrichs-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89889-058-8) and secondly, the enlarged and revised new edition of the highly recommended "Höhlen in Franken" by Angela und Stephan Lang (Verlag Hans Karl, ISBN 987-3-418-00385-6).

"Underground worlds 2007" - The ARGE Grabenstetten caving calender - edited by Andi Schober. The 2007 edition features images from Germany, France, Mexico and the USA. My contribution comprises the title image (Aven Noir / France), two images from a recent Lechuguilla expedition and a macro shot from a cave in the south of France.

Experience the underground world through the perspective of thirteen cave photographers as they take you into the caves of France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Italy, the Ukraine and the United States. The 2007 International Caving Calendar features the world's longest salt cave, spectacular speleothems and passages, an underground lake, an ice formation, and siphon diving. To the 2007 calendar I contributed the february image (Eisrohrhöhle-Bammelschacht-System / Berchtesgadener Alpen).

Issue 1/2006 of 'Schönes Schwaben' features my article "Im Bauch der Schwäbischen Alb", a brief portrait of the suebian caves.

Price:€ 4.90, ISSN 0931-2323; orders can be placed directly at the Silberburg Verlag)

For the new edition of the WAS IST WAS volume 'Höhlen', I contributed about two dozen images and was surprised to find my dear wife Steffi on the cover collage. The text was contributed by Dr. Rainer Köthe.

Formate 21 x 28 cm; 48 pages with many coloured images and illustrations; ISBN 3-7886-0423-9; prize 8,90 €; online order at WIW.

"Underground worlds 2006" - The ARGE Grabenstetten caving calender - edited by Andi Schober. This years edition features images from Germany, France Romania, New Zealand, Italy, Wales, USA and Austria. I proudly contributed the title image (Ponorului / Romania) plus the February (Eiskogelhöhle / Austria) and August images (Waipuna / New Zealand). The prize is 16 € plus 4.50 € shipping (within Germany; please ask Andi for international shipping charges).

For the 9th issue of Mark Passerby's online magazine 'caves.com' (available as PDF at www.caves.com) I donated the cover image and the portfolio 'The frozen Realm of Ice Caves'. All images and additional works are furthermore available for download as desktop backgrounds.

To the 2006 calender I contributed the March (Eiskapelle / Berchtesgaden Alps) and October image (Montmilchloch / Suebian Alb). The high-quality Speleo Projects calendar showcases cave photographers from Australia, Europe and the United States and caves in France, Germany, Malaysia, Mexico, New Guinea, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the US.

In the January 2005 issue of the magazine 'NaturFoto' you'll find my artikle "Licht im Dunkeln" (Light in the Dark), a practical report about underground photography, illustrated with images primarily from the caves of France. Prize:€ 6.40, ISSN 1615-3545; The issue can be ordered directly at the publisher Tecklenborg

The fascinating pictures of the 2005 Speleo-Projects Caving Calendar were taken by various cave photographers. This edition of the calendar features images from caves of Mexico, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Bornea, Slovenia and the USA.

"Underground worlds 2005" - The ARGE Grabenstetten caving calender - edited by Andi Schober. This years edition features images from Germany, France and Romania.

This noble illustrated book on the world's most important karst areas and caves, published by the LA VENTA Exploring Team, is available in italian "Meraviglie del Mondo Sotterraneo" and french language "Merveilles du Monde Souterrain". A german as well as an english edition is planned. The images for this Volume were contributed by numerous international cave photographers as for instance Dave Bunell, Patrick Cabrol, Philippe Crochet, Paul De Bie, Antonio De Vivo, Andreas Schober, Jean Paul Sounier, Mario Vianelli and myself.

€ ca. 45; ISBN 88-7082-837-9 (italian), ISBN: 20-8011-868 (french);
192 pp.; 36 x 26 cm

"Underground worlds 2004" - The ARGE Grabenstetten caving calender - edited by Andi Schober; with images from caves of Gemany, Austria, France, Italy, USA and New Zealand.

Guide book to the karst area of the Suebian Alb (southern Germany) by Hans Binder and Herbert Jantschke; 7th edition; DRW Verlag; 288 pages; 74 figs.; formate 12.3 x 18.5 cm.

€ 12,00; ISBN 3-87181-485-7

in the GEOlino extra issue "die extremsten Lebensräume der Welt" you'll find an artikel about caves "Ausflug in die Tiefe" with two images from this website.