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21 January 2025
In the first part of this trilogy, I analysed my photography during the last year using a set of about 70 favourite photographs. Additionally, I made some assumptions about what may happening 2025. The second part was devoted to my five favourite street photographs, and the last part of my 2024 review (quite late for that, I know) is dedicated to my five favourite nature shots. Sunrise with Stripes Sunrise with Stripes Ulm, Germany | 13. April 2024 Although I wasn't out in nature as often as I would like to be during last year I managed to stand up very early a few times. I packed my gear the evening before and after a quick coffee I snapped my bag and went out to enjoy and capture the …
18 January 2025
A few days ago, I wrote an extensive blog post about my photography during the last year. I focused on numbers, analysed what I did and expressed some thoughts on the future. I also announced writing two additional posts with my top five pictures (btw. these weren't included in the previous post) in street and nature photography. This one showcases my five favourite street-ish photographs. The wall The wall Ulm, Germany | 02. February 2024 The back story is not really special: Back then I tried to go out on the streets at least once a week and even more often, when possible. As part of my walk, I strolled around the Danube and the city wall of Ulm. I saw this composition and noticed that …
14 January 2025
Motivated by Mike Chudley's video I thought it would be a fun idea to analyse the pictures I took last year, especially my favourites. For choosing those I sat down during the last days and looked through a total of about 4000 photos. Every time a photo made me stop for a moment, I assigned a colour label to it. Afterwards, I culled through the about 100 selected works and ended up with 77 favourites (not including any private images). An objective process? Hell no… But who cares :) Since I'm refusing to put myself in one genre and engaged in nature as well as street-ish photography during 2024 I decided to split the review and analysis into those two areas. It also makes sense since not …
9 January 2025
About half a year ago, I heard an episode of the Street Photography Magazine podcast with Johan O E about the OCOLOY project. OCOLOY is short for "one camera, one lens, one year". The idea is to use just one camera with one lens for a year to learn to see the world differently and grow due to new challenges. It goes further than that and suggests different projects throughout the year. For example, only shooting with ISO 800 for an entire month. For Johan, the challenge was very successful and they already started his third round of OCOLOY. The idea of such a creative constraint intrigued me from the beginning. However, I couldn't imagine how this could work out with the different genres …
8 December 2024
Having my own website to feature my pictures is one of the goals I had for a long time. A place that I can call "home" regarding my photography, where I am the algorithm, where I don't need to worry about likes or comments, where I decide how my images are displayed, and where I can put my thoughts into words in the form of a blog. Early last year, I set up a quick and dirty website using WordPress more or less just to have something. But I neither liked the design nor the interface. Over two years ago I already started working on a design but it took me until a few months ago that I had enough time and motivation to finish. And then a few more months until I finally started to implement …
