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The bears and the bees…

inspired the name of this blog. You may know it from a children’s book or maybe even from a band. But strictly speaking neither of those have too much in common with this site, although I honestly like them both.

Is there such a thing as a honeytree, then? Probably not in the sense that the infamous bear would have it. But it can easily be imagined. In a way, it’s the same with a picture. It never really shows reality and is always created, slightly changed and depending on a point of view. When it comes to photography, I don’t try to show things how they are, but how I percieve them, and there’s always a special mood, ranging from mellifluous to melancholy.

In this context, film photography is especially appealing to me. It’s quite astonishing in how far a special film or a special camera can change one motif. But digital pictures can also be manipulated in every way imaginable. Still, it’s important to me that all the pictures I create stay within an imaginable framework, a sort of magical realism, if you will. Besides, I don’t mind my frames being quite worn. If anything fascinates me, it’s tattered trinkets, quirky places and silent ruins evoking all sorts of stories. But I feel also very intrigued by all of nature’s living and breathing artworks, especially trees, which I seem to capture more often than anything else.

In general, I like to stay open to different motifs, cameras and ways of editing. I’m learning a lot along the way and so I’m using this blog to share some of my experiences, which include mistakes as well as – hopefully – some good results or moments where I just got really lucky. After all, photography is an interesting trip and as they say: The journey is the reward. In this sense, this blog is a travel log. Welcome on board. ;)