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Mind
If there is one thing that determines our perception of our life – how we feel, what we want … – that one thing world be our mind. While our physical life, our environment does not quite change that much, our judgment about the world and our personal position on how we perceive this world…
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42
Anyone who read Douglas Adams knows that number and the meaning. Who did not will just see the number. The same thing (a number) can have very different meaning to us, depending on our background and our history. Any information is given meaning only in the moment that a subject is confronted with it and…
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Growth
Life is about growing. We never stay the same person, but change constantly as does our environment. We live on change, you could even say that change is one of the major factors that drive us through life. For example: we can not directly detect temperatures, all we can detect is the withdrawal or the…
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Perspectives
Whenever we make photographs, one of the most influential ways to improve the picture is to choose the right perspective. To choose the best point of view, the best distance, the right angle to allow the scenery to unfold it’s beauty. Perspective however has nothing to do with the tools you are using. Perspective is…
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Lighthouses
Everybody needs a lighthouse. Some point of orientation, something to provide guidance and perspective. Something that drives us to one direction, that makes us move and leave our current position. A lighthouse is not only something to warn against fatal reefs, but also a landmark, an important point of the journey.
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Express Yourself
Photography can be like writing a book. You want to say something. You want to show what impression one place or light made on you when you were there. Like grammar, the photographic skills are your craft to allow you to express yourself, to have some stile. Like authors, even the same sceneries can be…
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Detail Work
It is not always the big landscape that makes interesting pictures. Sometimes nature surprises with a lot of beauty in the details of plants, stones or small objects you may find on a beach. I came across this tree during a hike on the deep ravine trail near Stinson beach, CA. The light was low,…
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Digital Life
We say that we have a digital life. Scientifically this is non- sense. Digital is just 1-0 or 0-1. Everything around me is very much analogue. With digital we chop reality into peaces of 1s and 0s one of the arguments I remember is that there is no “loss”, even if you copy the data…
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Small Things
Sometimes even the small things can make interesting pictures — it is just  about to see them. The good news is that everyone is drawn to different things to see. There is an infinite number of expressions to explore.
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Print of Today
This picture was made near the Altenberger Dom during a small hike my family and me did back in 2012. The transformation to monochrome was a good choice – I especially like the structure that is much better visible when seen in monochrome.