Focus
Dreams of Wings…
So what do you do when you realise that… your photography has become too difficult, your gear and process have become cumbersome and keep you from enjoying an intuitive and…
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Not important…
That strange feeling that everything I write has to be somehow important, that every image I take has to be ‘special’, that every painting I make needs to convey a…
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My painting journey…
When deciding about my goals for this year there was one thing above all that my soul was aching for…something that I had in a way forbidden myself to dream…
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Herbstblut
Drops of Autum blood On Winter’s pale face – Seeds of Spring… Just added this to my portfolio – I really like the way it turned out.
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Farewell and Welcome
I hope you all had a wonderful start into the new year. Ours was as peaceful as we had hoped, just watching the fireworks in the distance and enjoying our…
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2019 – My Year of ‘Ma’
I am sitting here on the couch, looking out of our large glass window at another grey and calm winter morning (quick snapshot below) – just the sound of a…
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You cannot develop your own style?
How can I develop my own style? How can I find my unique style? Questions that I did ask myself and I am sure – actually I know – many…
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Give birth to a dancing star…
One of my favourite quotes of all time is by Friedrich Nietzsche. “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” This…
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Freeing my intuition…
Practicalities, gear and film choices, project planning and business expectations were filling my mind and I could not hear my artistic heart anymore. Had it stopped beating? I thought that…
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A brand new Morning…
[…] Well, it’s a brand new morning And it’s the start of your new life Yeah, it’s a brand new morning You’d better try and get it right Brand new…
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Little did I know that writing the blog post about ’Finding my Focus’ beginning of the year would result in a long phase of deep reflections which basically lasted until 2 weeks ago. I had been so sure that I had it all figured out that I was not really prepared for that. There wasn’t…
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One of my first blog posts was about “focusing until it feels right” and while this was about focusing my cameras I have found out over the last few weeks that it also applies to my creative, business and ‘social’ life. During the last two years after I had quit my old job and started…
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A few days ago I read a very interesting article on James McArdle’s blog onthisdateinphotography.com about the work of Julia Margaret Cameron. The article got me thinking about two things – how I use focus which I will write about in this blog post and – how much I feel I have in common with a photographer who…
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