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“At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to ‘hear through the eyes’.” [Paul Caponigro]

February 9, 2014

February 8, 2014

February 7, 2014 _ Turning the world upside down...

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"Where light and shadow fall on your subject - that is the essence of expression and art through photography." [Scott Bourne]

February 6, 2014 

February 5, 2014 

February 4, 2014

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“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.”  [Arnold Newman]

February 3, 2014 _ Amber Light

February 2, 2014 _ The Gallery

February 1, 2014 _ The Future is Digital

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“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.”  [Diane Arbus]

The Crystal Ball goes colour…

I started a few 365-projects over the years. But somehow all of them run dry after some times. So I am quite happy (and a little bit proud ;-)) that my Crystal Ball-Project survived already a whole month. And it even serves me as a "testing ground" for my next project...

January 31, 2014 _ Out of Power (but as long as there are still butterflies…)

January 30, 2014 _ C.B. meets his brothers...

January 29, 2014 _ Hommage to Malevich

January 28, 2014 - Iluminated

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Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box. [Deepak Chopra]

January 27, 2014 _ The Black Box

January 26, 2014 _ The Tree of Life

January 25, 2014 - Snowstorm Globe

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There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we saw is what we are. [Ernst Haas]

January 24, 2014 _ Moscow

January 23, 2014 _ Moscow

January 22, 2014

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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. [Salvador Dalí]

January 21, 2014

January 20, 2014

January 19, 2014 

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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it... [Man Ray]

January 18, 2014

January 17, 2014

January 16, 2014

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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one to keep. [Scott Adams]

January 15, 2014 _ Into the Abyss

January 14, 2014 _ No way out?

January 13, 2014 _ Shadows on the Wall

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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. [Jack London]

January 12, 2014

January 11, 2014 _ Sisyphus

January 10, 2014 _ The future in my son's hand...

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Still playing around with this glass objects...

All photographs are done with my Fujifilm X100s and available light only, no additional lighting, just the reflections of some light sources or the sun. Quite fascinating to see what happens when you are changing camera position for some centimeters only. Maybe one can not see into the future but you can learn a lot about light refraction...

January 9, 2014

January 8, 2014

January 7, 2014

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Rather than represent the subject literally, a fine art photographer aims at representing the subject emotionally. It is this focus on creating photographs based on emotion that makes all the difference.  It this emotional focus that is at the root of vision.  Rather than seek the creation of images based on a literal representation of the subject, fine art photographers seek the creation of images based on an emotional response to the subject.  Rather than show us the subject as we already know it, the artist shows us the subject as only him, or her, knows it. What we see in the final work of art is the subject transformed by the vision of the artist. [Alain Briot]

January 6, 2014

January 5, 2014

January 4, 2014

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. [I. Cunningham]

LOOKING INTO THE CRYSTAL BALL...

You can't look into the future. Even if you have a crystal ball. But you can look back day by day through this crystal ball. And maybe it will become a 365-project...

January 3, 2014

January 2, 2014

January 1, 2014