The beginning of a new year has always reminded me to keep things simple. Maybe it’s the bareness of nature. It’s looking out of your window one morning and realising you can see so much farther when all the leaves … Continue reading
Tag Archives: nature
Pushing comfort zones
Inspiration can be such a fickle thing and strike you when you least expect it. Recently I went to a beautiful exhibition on how Japanese art influenced western European artists like Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Henri Rivière. (Initially, … Continue reading
On the surface of Bonn
A few weeks ago I was invited to visit two friends living in Bonn, a lovely city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the former seat of government of West Germany. Autumn had just begun and the leaves were starting to turn … Continue reading
Sous le dôme épais…
Pictures can be so misleading sometimes. I finally made some lovely spring flower pictures including green leaves and a little stream. The full package. Simply judging by the pictures you would guess this was a wonderful trip to a peaceful … Continue reading
Gloomy bloomy
Sometimes with photography you find yourself ending up somewhere you didn’t even know you were going. You set out to shoot some lovely spring flowers with vibrant colours, blue sky and bumblebees and you do not even fail. But when … Continue reading
A heap of broken images?
The first camera that I ever dared open up to repair (and the only one since for several reasons) was a Yashica 44 LM, a.k.a. Baby Yashica. I was glad I had no spare screws left over when the camera … Continue reading
Sweeping simplicity
„How does snow sound? What does it tell you?“ „It says ‘crunch crunch’ and ‘brr brr’…“ “What does that mean ‘crunch crunch’ and ‘brr brr‘? What kind of words are these?“ “Well, to be honest, snow doesn’t say much. People … Continue reading