On the shoot for a German travel Magazine I spend a few weeks in the Lake Constance area. A lovely region with soft colours and smooth summer's evening. When the light is clear you can look all the way at the Swiss Alpes.

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For different travel magazines I went to Lac Leman several times. The beauty at the hillside of Lavaux gives you a sense of well-being.

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Art Selbach started the fine art collection harbourlights in 2010. He is still continually developing the theme about ships, harbour, lights and landmarks until today. The collection includes currently more than 100 pieces of artwork. Exciting port cities like Hamburg, Shanghai, Bangkok or Ho Chi Minh City are now shown on the strictly limited artworks.

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harbourlights is a registered trademark.

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The unique lagoon of Venice is one of the places in the world you shouldn't miss !

Shot for a German travel magazine

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Welcome to my creative artwork collection citylights

When starting the collection harbourlights I parallel developed the collection citylights. Its pretty much the same technique. The collection is still in the beginning and I will add more created images during the next years. As the collection harbourlights this collection will also be a 90% limited edition. That means the print run will generally not go over 7 copies. Those which are marked are strictly limited.

Check out my recent work under

https://www.saatchiart.com/artselbach

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Some of the best Chefs in the world

On my trips through Europe I met many Michelin star awarded cooks and they patiently let me take their picture. 

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Once I drove from the Rio Guadiana along the coast to Lisbon. A three days ride that I would very much to recommend.

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Story for Lufthansa inflight magazine and others.

Today Saigon is one of the most growing cities in Asia.

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Some stories about this Bavarian region I published in the Lufthansa Inflight magazine and some German travel magazine.

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Shot for different german magazines.

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When travelling Europe I like to visit some of the famous star cooks to take their picture. Throughout I am fascinated of their amazing variety of cooking art. Wether they been rewarded with Michelin stars or run an excellent Pincho Bar in the Basque Country, a Tapas Bar in Andalucia or a three star restaurant in the Back Forest. The optical impression is as wonderful as the taste of this sensual food.

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Crystal Lalique, the ultimate symbol of french luxury ...

Reportage for a german magazine.

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Assigned for many magazines I travelled more than twenty times to Paris. I enjoyed every single trip and always will do. Always a place to go to and still one of my favourites.

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The small island is also the smallest province of Canada. Spend some nights at Dalvay By the Sea at PEI National Park, a story telling hotel.

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When travelling through Europe I stay in all kind of different hotels. See a variety of European hotels on this page.

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The first time I came to Cuba was in 1991. The old captivating city of Havana and the very open people performing a fascinating ecstasy on every visitor. The people I photographed did never pose. They kept their natural genuine look straight into the camera. The almost ruined houses with its exceptional charm had a never-ending fascination to me.

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For a travel story for a German travel magazine I went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, along the coast to Lunenburg and the northeastern part of Magalash Peninsula where to find interesting vineyards such as Jost winery. Finally I went to Cape Breton Island, home of pure nature landscapes.

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Every year in the summer the Limmat river in Zurich is opened for the Limmatschwimmen. A swimming competition down the river that everybody can join by registration. Its huge fun when all the swimmers jump into the river crawling downstream for two kilometres. Jumping into the Limmat river from the Quai Bridge is not part of the competition, but immense fun. Next to the famous chocolate you will enjoy the crystal clear blue ice water.

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When starting photographing with my first smartphone I never thought about getting this quality out of the images. By that time most of them were good enough for printing on a billboard. Today you easily can do. Its high quality nowadays let me sometimes thinking of just leaving my heavy camera stuff at home. And the up-to-date smartphones bear out. Lets wait what's coming next.

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Fabulous landscapes and excellent wineries: La Rioja

Best to come in autumn. And step by bodega la Tondonia, Ysios (which belongs to Pernod Ricard Bodegas) and Muga. For my opinion those are the best.

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Making of from the worldwide newspaper advertising campaign, completely shot in black and white in Miami Beach and South of France. The images were shown as full page ad in the New York Times, Financial Times, NZZ, FAZ, SZ, FR, Handelsblatt and plenty more.

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The biggest fiesta in Spain is the annual Romeria de El Rocio in Huelva, South of Spain. Hundreds of thousands from mostly southern parts of the country going on a pilgrimage to the church of El Rocio. What a blast! Another spanish fiesta take place at the easter holiday. The rowing regatta in Donostia in September, Feria de Abril in Sevilla and so on. I found the spanish people know to party the best.

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All images by ©Arthur F. Selbach

To Croatia I went a few years ago for a travel magazine after I have been there for the Lufthansa Inflight magazine in 1997. A lot has changed since and I was surprised about the friendliness and hospitality of the Croatian people.

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The mediterranean island Crete was one of my favourite destination in the early 80's. Back in 2010 I worked for a handful German magazines and for some book editors. Lovely island with lots of pure nature, cozy beaches and adorable people.

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Riga is a beautiful and peaceful place to spend the midsummer time. People are out all night to celebrate the white nights in the northern hemisphere. Its worth a trip. Still inexpensive and secretly.

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One of my preferred places in the Algarve region is Sagres, Europe's most southwest spot and a surfers home. I stayed many times at the lovely Memmo Hotel. Here I met the ambitious surfer Joao Rei. We went out to a some hidden beaches to take some photographs. Later on I went up towards Lisbon with some good friends. A very nice drive along the coastline.

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shows situations that perform in between two or more moments or sceneries.

So you see situations between buildings, ships, hands, continents, lollies, power lines, bridges, trees, cars, flowers, chimneys and decades.

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All images by ©Arthur F. Selbach

Travelling the Baltic Sea on a cruise ship during midsummer.

Images shot for Princess Cruises

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Highriser and some skyscraper across Europe

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A journey cross the Island, shot for Condé Nast Traveller

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One of my passion lies with the impressions of the almost endless diversity of light situations and settings in the Port of Hamburg. It is unique to watch gigantic cargo-ships or cruise-ships coming up the Elbe river. For 2018 I will put up a new calendar with only harbour images for sale.

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Reportage about a painting workshop in Marocco with Mahi Binebine. Mahi is the most famous painter of Marocco. I visited him when he just held a painting workshop with 12 participants in Tahnaout, south of Marrakesh. He used to live in Paris, New York and returned to Marocco in 2002.

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architecture shot with the smartphone

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When I started taking photographs with the smartphone I found some interesting possibilities by using a variety of filtering, such as VSCO or Hipstamatic. The first photographer I worked with when I started photography was mainly into architectural photography. He taught me this profession in 8x10 inch Plaubel and Linhof cameras. Adopting my technical knowledge when using a smartphone the look became modern and even more lovely when adding filters.

I love being out in the nature, especially in the mountains. When I was a child my family went for holidays many times to the Dolomite Alps. There we went hiking all day, up to ten hours. Almost every day of 4 weeks vacation became a hiking day. During my time as a student I began hating the mountains and totally preferred to go to the beach. Some years ago I discovered the hiking again and came back to some of the beautiful mountain areas to go on a tour with friends. And I loved it and still do.

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Travel the country side east of Cape Town to Stellenbosch, Franschhoek or Paarl. When being exhausted from the city just leave the town to go to the country side. Only one hour from Cape Town you'll find fantastic hotels or laid-back lodges. You will find excellent food and winery. Take some day off like we did when we came to Palmiet Valley Estate.

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A story from Egypt

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What a nice try to jump down the dunes. Sometimes you land on your feet, sometimes on your back. But also sometimes you'll eat sand.

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All images by ©Arthur F. Selbach

A few years ago I met the actress Lea Mornar in Split, Croatia. We worked together on a job for the Lufthansa inflight magazine. We visited Leas grandparents near Trogir and spent a memorable afternoon with them.

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Canoing down the Gauja river from Cesis to Sigulda

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The secret spots

Catalunya's province Costa Brava offers a variety of beautiful hotels, very good food and high-quality winery. Working for the tourism board I spent many weeks while discovering and photographing almost all of its amazing landscapes and small pretty villages, nice cozy coves and hidden beaches. 

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When you come to Bilbao in Euskadi you primary come for the astonishing and fascinating Guggenheim museum, designed by famous architect Frank Owen Gehry. You also might come to visit the old town district. Just right. But make sure you don't miss the excepcional Pintcho bars in San Sebastian (Donostia) while savouring a glass of Chacoli. ts only a stone's throw away fom Bilbao.

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