Laura, part of a session at the beach of Tamariu. I asked her to act the part… I think she did it well.
Nikon FM2n, Voigtlander Nokton 58, f1,4 Foma 400 dev Adonal
The Environmental Nude
I started thinking about my best environmental nudes, which I might define as a nude in which the landscape supports part of the story. Doing nude/portrait work it's just enough to find a corner where we can translate inspiration from whatever is around us but I'd proffer that "the environmental nude" demands more of a setting.
Pictures pass by constantly that showcase amazing detail and I once spent a very educational night with an art student who ruthlessly pushed me to crop deeper into each image. I find that I tend to have a holistic need to portray my subjects as complete people and tend to let backgrounds go to waste other than as a suggestion. I also suffer from a need to hand-hold the camera, perhaps succumbing to an impulse to be the Great White Hunter and stalk my prey. It does nothing for sharpness. I am continually disappointed. Likewise, my penchant for placing the subject in corners, leaving them outside the focus box on my Nikon cameras. In theory, one can focus, lock, recompose and maintain that focal point but in reality it seems to work poorly, particularly as I then will forget and trigger my back-button focus as a reflex action and shoot several frames before realizing it. Excitable.
There are some archiving projects that I need to undertake but we are just finished with winter and the rest of the world seems to beckon — those will have to wait for the return of darkness so I might hide away and think of warmer days. These are simply the shots that were at hand, favorites from a half dozen adventures.
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
I have four images on show in "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" at Neptune in June, The Linen Factory, Port Chester, NY, from May 8 till June 1.
https://www.neptuneinjune.com/events/cant-take-my-eyes-off-you
Erste Versuche in der Architekturfotografie
In den letzten Jahren lag mein fotografischer Schwerpunkt fast ausschließlich auf Portraits und Menschen. Ich habe mich intensiv mit Licht, Emotionen und Körperhaltungen beschäftigt — und genau das liebe ich an der Portraitfotografie: die Nähe, die Interaktion, das Unvorhersehbare.
Gleichzeitig hat mich schon länger gereizt, mich an ein völlig anderes Feld heranzutasten: die Architekturfotografie. Klare Linien, abstrakte Formen, Strukturen, Wiederholungen — und die Herausforderung, Räume nicht nur abzubilden, sondern zu interpretieren.
Für meine ersten Versuche habe ich das Neue Museum Nürnberg besucht. Die Architektur dort bietet eine großartige Mischung aus organischen Kurven, offenen Räumen und spannenden Lichtverläufen. Zwei der entstandenen Bilder möchte ich hier teilen. Sie sind bewusst reduziert gehalten und spielen mit Perspektive, Rhythmus und Licht.
Da ich noch ganz am Anfang meiner architektonischen Reise stehe, freue ich mich über Feedback, Kritik und Inspiration.
Welche Gebäude, Orte oder Innenräume haben euch fotografisch besonders fasziniert?
Welche Locations eignen sich gut für grafische, minimalistische oder abstrakte Architekturaufnahmen?
Ich freue mich auf eure Anregungen und den Austausch.
American Dream
Schmuckstücke aus den USA
Natalya
Look.
And don’t pretend you didn’t.
Files from the stair session with Paloma
Paloma who is an artist and has a passion for modelling, had a workshop in a beautiful old building with this staircase, the windows brought in the natural light and shade. With no passers by we had the opportunity to use this space as our stage.
Live The Questions
"Mirror?", the little princess asked into the dawn, "Why I don't get the answers?"
"Which answers do you mean?", the mirror asked his friend.
"The answers which could give me salvation.", the little princess said immediately: "Everyone with answers, seems to be so lightweighted. Everything is clear and you can advise others in their life. You don't struggle with all these questions to yourself. – You don't struggle with all the questions to our existence. – I would love to stop my struggle. – I hate to go up every day, to live the questions. And go to bed without any new insights, without any progress in finding my salvation."
The mirror listened and kept silent. His little friend had never been ironic or cynical. The little princess had always been opened and interested in the opinion from others. But maybe, she became desperate.
The sun would awaken the little princess in one or two hours. But it seemed, that she was panicking for this moment today.
About a new day, a day with a huge probability of no new answers.
The little princess lighted a cigarette. She hated to smoke. And she starred out of the window, into the deep night.
"Are you sure, that the answers are wise?", the mirror asked the little princess.
She inhaled the smoke deeply and said: "No. Of course not. Mostly, the answers are stupid. Mostly they are pointing to the bad, cruel world. To the bad, cruel society. To the bad, cruel normativity. Of course, these answers aren't valid or usable. But they seem to give peace."
The mirror sighted.
"I wish you peace little princess. I am wishing you the deepest peace with ourself you can imagine."
And the little princess began to cry. The new day started. – A new day who forced the little princess, to live the questions.
Teilnehmer: Fotograf Kosh Wolf / Kosh Wolf
Dunkle Formen
Geformt, doch schwarz, im Gegenlicht. Silhouettenhaft, gestreckt, so präsentieren sich Daria und Ksenia hier auf vielfältige Weise.
Vielen Dank dafür.
Berühr mich nicht / Sieh mich an
Sein Körper ist nicht statisch, sondern im Übergang.
Der Raum bleibt reduziert. Nur der Rhythmus des Körpers erzählt.
Es ist ein Blick auf Bewegung als Zustand, auf Ruhe als etwas, das nie ganz still ist.
Fast gedankenverloren – als würde er sich in sich selbst zurückziehen, Einsamkeit und Intimität.
Konturen verschwimmen, Bewegung nur angedeutet, er gefangen zwischen Ruhe und einem leichten inneren Aufbruch.
Ein stiller, persönlicher Augenblick – ein Mann allein im Bett, versunken in Gedanken, fern von allem Außen.