Photography
For about three years, I played with the idea of making a photo book. I was struggling with the realization of this idea. Should I find a publisher or publish it myself? What are the advantages of each option? Are there pitfalls? Would anyone buy a copy? Inspired by an online course of Musuk Nolte,… Continue reading The Making of a Photo Book
So it's been a while since my last post. Actually over a year now. But I have some good excuses for it. The first would be raising a second child. I just realised that my son was born only a few days after the last blog post. Since than I was busy keeping him safe… Continue reading Less Blogging, More House Building
If you are in somewhere around in Mittelsachsen Germany and have nothing to do, come and visit my exhibition in Mittweida. It's an group exhibition at the University of Applied Sciences. So it's a group exhibition and it's in a small town. But it's my first exhibition and I'm proud of it. The location is… Continue reading I Am Having an Exhibition
A while back I was curios about how it's like to operate a true rangefinder camera. I am shooting a lot with my Fujifilm X100T and I love this camera. It has the ideal form factor and focal length for me. But there's a lot on this camera which don't care about and I always… Continue reading My Experiences With the Leica M System
Yes, you read correctly. In April I registered my business, so I can sell my prints in an online store – at least in Germany for now. So for the past five months I didn't have the time to write any post. I know that not writing on a repetitive basis and complaining about this… Continue reading So I’m Running a Business Now
Recent news from the world of photography awards are not that good. There are numerous photo contests around, and today I read that five of them relate to just one person. This sounds, at least, a little bit odd. I mean a photo contest is probably a business like any other business. And sure the… Continue reading Why I Won’t Submit to Payed Photo Contests Anymore
I was confident enough when I bought a Manfrotto 190 aluminium tripod, that this would be the best choice between price and performance. But I was wrong. I did some research on carbon fibre tripods and stumbled upon the brand Benro. When I mean stumbled upon, I mean I read it at Fstoppers. So I… Continue reading About Purchasing a Tripod
My photographic journey started in 2004 with my first digital camera, an Olympus C725UZ, the UZ stands for Ultra Zoom, and yes, with its eight times optical zoom it zoomed ultraly (if that's a real word). Until 2010 this was my go-to camera, and my only camera. It took quiet a lot of travel photos,… Continue reading My Gear History (Illustrated With Examples of Cat Images)
This question came up with pictorialism around the early 20th century, when Alfred Stieglitz established a group called the Photo-Secession. In this group Stieglitz was advancing and promoting pictorial photographers like Gertrude Käsebier, Eva Watson-Schütze, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Edward Steichen, and Joseph Keiley. The idea of the pictorialists, as they called them, was to create… Continue reading Pictorialism—Or is Photography Art?
My image "Johannisberg" got an Honorable Mention in the Monochrome Photography Awards 2017. There were 8,942 submissions from 87 countries, so I'm a little proud that this image was selected for an Honorable Mention. Sure it's not under the first three, but it's a motivation. And if you look at the images of the other… Continue reading Honorable Mention for Johannisberg