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City views, N750D, Sonntag, street, Switzerland

Stadt aufwärts, in der besten erdenklichen Wetterlage. Endlich ist es auch hier unten wieder mal, unbedeckt. :)

Nikon D750 / 16-35ƒ4

Summer’s almost gone.

Bern, ISFP-Special, Shoot Film, street

We are heading to softlight station…soon.

How do you get an image like that? Well, it’s pure luck.

#shoot what you love.

Bern, street, Switzerland

Sometimes I just don’t know what else could I bring to the table of this overdone visual world. Photography is already killed by Instagram & Co. Not?

Sometimes I walk the town and have simply no idea what to shoot. We see everyday tons of pictures everywhere. We are glued to our phone-screens 24/7. Papers, magazines, commercials and again…Instagram. Then I start to understand that maybe…what I see is important not just for me. Maybe it’s important for others too. Or in my afterlife, like a voice, a statement or just leaving some traces, here on my blog. Sharing thoughts for the future.

Sometimes you just need some inspiration to get things going…again. Light is poetry- just like music. Keep photographing what you love.

(edit: Capture One, best raw editor outthere).

Howdy.

Bern, City views, filmisnotdead, ISFP-Special, street, X-E2

There’s this old saying: „Photography calls many but only choses a few.“ I was never chosen, it was just a wish. I always had this love/hate- relationship about photography, like every artist does. One day I love it and the following day I could throw all my cameras in the garbage-can. I guess this will never stop. It’s like life just goes, more or less.

But heck, I DO love being around people, especially on events like weddings, family, gatherings, concerts etc. when Im allowed to work in the background and everyone enjoys the party. Photography itself is not what I love, it’s about the people who are involved. Its also about the storytelling, the candid moments. And of course…taking good framed pictures. The pictures are to me like a trophy or a souvenir I’ll take home. This is what keeps my photography-wheel spinning.

Hommage

Bern, ISFP-Special, N750D, street, Switzerland

René Burri. Der 2014 verstorbene Schweizer Magnum Fotograf. Der mit viel Talent und glücklichen Zufällen (nicht nur hinter der Kamera) heute zu den ganz Grossen zählt. Ernesto „Che“ Guevara mit Zigarre ist wohl eines seiner meistkopierten Perlen. Aber auch Pablo Picasso sowie den Schweizer Star-Architekten «Le Corbusier» gehörten zu seinem Archiv. Das ikonische Portrait von Che war stets wie „eine schwere Kugel am Bein“, die er nicht mehr los wurde. Wie es Burri selbst in mehreren Interviews erwähnt hat.

Um dem Helden Burri und seiner Leica M2 recht zu werden, hab ich dieses Foto aus den Hüften geknipst, um keine unnötige Aufmerksamkeit auf mich und meiner klobigen Dslr zu lenken. Diesmal hatte ich Glück, der Ausschnitt passt. Das sind die schönen Momente der Fotografie: Wenn man vom Zufall positiv überrascht wird.