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Toepfer's Turm

I’m offering two alternate media fine art prints for sale at introductory prices. Specifics and prices after the break.

Lessons from Paris

Jeanne d'Arc, listening to her voices

Well, I’m about halfway through scanning my best negatives from a week’s visit in Paris (some pictures in the post below this) and it’s time for a reconing.

Pictures from Paris

An Underground Vault In The Louvre

Some pictures from a week in Paris this February. To be updated and continued after the jump:

One Picture of Thousands in the Louvre

We’re in Paris this week, and my son and I are spending days in the Louvre museum. A thing to be wholeheartedly recommended to anyone visually interested! There is so much material of the highest quality worthy of your closest attention, a person could spend a whole life in the Louvre and not tire or get bored about learning about art and life in this way. Every art object or picture there seems to be a cosmos in itself. One example is (inadequately) pictured below: van Eyck’s Chancellor Rolin’s Madonna. A friend gave me Anita Albus’ book “Die Kunst der Künste” (The art of the arts) that starts with a treatise on this picture. I couldn’t improve on Mrs. Albus, so let me just say I was struck standing in the presence of this work.

Shoot Loose

Satanist Transportation

There’s something to be said for shooting loose, not minding much about technicalities, point of view, composition or working with your subject. The view from the angle of your eye, glimpsed in passing, has a certain raw freshness, unpretentiousness.
This came back to me

Why Black & White?

Young Acorn

I got a comment on my German language photo blog on the picture above that said: “Beautiful picture, but why black and white?” Comments there are a seldom enough occurrence, so six weeks later I replied:
Well, look:
I almost exclusively work in black and white. Colour is concrete, black and white is one step further to abstraction

Flickry Adressees

For years now, I’ve been showing my photos on a German photo sharing site (don’t know how how long that link will be up, see below). They contacted me recently when the yearly fees were due and they’d lost connection to my credit card. This got me thinking, as expenses are apt to do lately.
What is the purpose of posting photos on such a site for others and me?

Geriatric Portfolios Solicited

This is strictly not for the young and beautiful. On “Expiration Notice” (nice moniker!), they’re asking for portfolios from *old*-and-emerging, finally-coming-out-of-the-closet grannys and gramps. Contributors must be over 35. I’m turning 45 tomorrow, so I sent them a little something that has been developing for a few decades (that does tend to maximise the highlight density …).
There still is time till the end of the month, so down that Geritrol and get your pictures together!

Keep smiling

Keep on smiling in 2009!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2009 full of smiles!

Feels Like Cheating

It's Getting Better

In my last post I asked with regard to photogravure: “Are there any shortcuts that work?”.
I’m happy to report that there is a shortcut, and it’s called …