All eyes see, few notice, very few realise.

Quote from COLD SKIN by Albert Sánchez Piñol

Photography for me means the retaining, the perception of a moment which has touched my senses with its magic. Unimagined worlds open up for me here and the initial enthusiasm has become a true passion.

There is a picture of a sailing boat on Lake Constance which I took a long time ago and later discovered on the computer screen that it had become a whole regatta. It resembled more an old painting than a photograph. My thoughts wandered to John William Turner, whose paintings I admire very much already from early age, especially those of his late phase. The light is just phenomenal and exerts a gigantic fascination on me. ... It was the beginning of a wonderful journey of discovery. That is what my photographs should look like – painted with light! _____________

Looking through the camera’s viewfinder for me is like a view at my canvas when I am painting. I am led by colours and shapes. Light is my tool for my "Light painting" in photography. Every moment is unique and irretrievable. This sense of time passing and the changes associated is what I am trying to capture in my light pictures. Quite consciously I avoid multiple exposures and I am led only by my perception and intuition. Without thinking, I turn the dials on the camera, press a button here and turn a little there. It all happens by itself, without my conscious doing. I am not about reflecting what I see true to detail, it is important to me to capture the mood I experience at that moment – a moment that is already gone when the next one appears. However, something remains of it. It is not really lost and influences all future existence. Each of my pictures shown here is a blend of the past, the present and the future. Which is – depending on the viewer’s perception – left to each one’s imagination. Nothing _____________

is what it seems to be and yet it is. A journey into the land of illusions.

In the categories "Impressions of nature" and "Water worlds" I have been inspired by the inexhaustible richness of nature. It is often the smallest, quite inconspicuous things, such as those we pass by inattentively, which become something particularly special in the right light. An ordinary drop of rain can resemble a precious stone, the artistically woven filaments of the spider are revealed in their fascinating beauty, a speck of gold suddenly flows along a little stream. ... These are the natural jewels, all these little precious gems I fill my treasure chest with.

The photographs under the category "Subtracted colours" are often deprived of colour and occasionally also more or less manipulated to underline the key statement of the pictures. _____________