I am glad to report that my photograph “Catholic Library” won the Simple Architecture Contest over at ViewBug. Click on the link to view all the other outstanding finalists, each and every one of which would have deserved to be the winners just as much (if not more) than I apparently did in the eyes of the judge Donald Boyd.
„Let’s go shoot some architecture,“ said my photo buddy Achim. So I suggested we could go to one of the most iconic architectural locations in the Ruhr area (Germany), the ThyssenKrupp headquarters. But I had no idea that we would find the place in a unique condition, enabling us to get some very rare photos from a place that has been photographed over and over again already.
Some time ago I was contacted by a Jonathan B., a marketing manager from the print service provider Zor. He said that he was interested in working with me and asked me for a true and honest product review based on my experience with Zor. Here it is.
A couple of weeks ago, my first DSLR, the Nikon D80, died of mechanical arrest. All of a sudden, while my son was taking pictures of a tiger, it stopped shooting. It turned out that the mirror was locked and wouldn’t move anymore. ERR was the camera’s last word. In this post, I invite you to look back at the best shots I took with the D80.
In this series, I explore ways to photograph historic items and places in a way that reflects their age and inspires ideas and stories of their glories past. Today, we are going to explore reflections and (semi-)transparency. They both add a layer to the photograph, an extra step for the viewer to grasp the subject. They make the subject more distant and less immediate. They can obscure it, covering or distorting historical and original and adding new detail like haze or dirt.
With no small degree of happiness and joy, I am announcing Wax, an abstract and experimental series of photographs which explores the astoundingly varied structures, textures, patterns, and shades of one of the most ordinary items imaginable, a candle. In this post, I’d like to tell you a bit about the projects origin and the way the photos were created before I send you over to the Wax gallery.
A collection of 30 black & white photographs from the Zollverein world heritage site in Essen, Germany.
Welcome to the second installment of this blog post. Like in the first post, I will share ten landscape photographs which were taken on the banks of the Rhine in the Ruhr Valley, Germany, with their fascinating mix of nature and industry. Let’s get started right away.
On the eastern edge of the Ruhr Valley, the River Rhine meanders northwards to the North Sea, separating the industrial Ruhr Valley from the rural charm of the Lower Rhine Region. This constitutes a unique and fascinating contrast between peace and rural beauty amid motorway bridges, steel mills, and power stations. In this post, I’d like to share some of the photographs I have taken there.
Photographing exhibits in a museum is boring? Not necessarily. This is the first of a series of blog posts all about photographing historic items, buildings, and places. I will explore and discuss simple techniques which reintroduce the patina of age and history which so often is lost in sterile and well-lit exhibitions.
