In a time where disruption seems to be the order of the day in life, a city becomes chaotic. — Recently, my antidote for chaos has been to find places where I can go slow, down my city living tools, and use my camera to capture more elegant and leisurely ideas. Landscapes loom up in my mind, and more and more I yearn for open spaces. Horses are slow, then fast. They know when to stop. …

When people get lost in a city, they tend to gravitate towards the nearest phallic symbol. “Paris is always Paris and Berlin is never Berlin!” — Jack Lang There’s a Radio /T.V. tower in Berlin at Alexander Platz. It has been photographed about one billion times. People can’t resist its…

To feel for Art, is to Sense the Yearning and Mystery of the Human Heart. — Recently, I’ve noticed lots of articles and images popping up on social media, here and there, showing examples of “art” created by AI technology. MidJourney, DALLE.E, are two machine names that lead you to a website where you can type a couple of words into the search box, push a…

Summer is prime time for photo shoots on the street — depending on what your intentions are. — Yesterday evening drew in quickly, I was busy reading a good book, one eye ogling the changing light outside my kitchen window. A keen photographer will always have an excuse to get out and take photos. I wanted to catch the evening light. I’d packed my camera in my shoulder…

Photography is the experience of making love to the moment, savouring it, caressing it with the lens, a moment of pleasant awareness. — Every photography admits that they have messed up a photo opportunity by fumbling, over reacting, and maybe attempting to manipulate the moment, when they should have been interacting with the moment. The more we understand what we are looking at, the better the outcome.

It’s not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It’s their intimate relations with it. — Antoine D’Agata — As a street photographer I think about “why?”, very often. It’s in our nature, we always want more. So, when I ask why do I take photos on the street, I already know the answer, but I want more answers. It’s as if I’m piling up a lot of information…

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. — People go swimming in the Müggelsee lakes, they come down from the centre of Berlin to spend a relaxing day on the grassy banks. I planned to take a few photos around the lake. That didn’t happen, I got caught up in Friedrichshagen’s main street. When you walk with a…

A good photo should have qualities of art in it. What do I mean? — If you take photos and want others to enjoy your work, your own unique way of looking should be somewhere in the photo. That’s what I mean. It’s been a while since I thought seriously about colour photography. Today, I took a photo down by the river.

Photography is an exciting activity. Mostly for the person behind the camera, but we hope it will turn out to be an enjoyable and thoughtful moment for the person who looks at the photos. — I live in the city. But I often have the urge to take landscape photos, so I travel to the nearby villages and towns to see what’s on offer. If you want to take good photos, then take photos of the things that touch you.