Taking photos that resonate and move people is the desire to create art. Therefore, it’s going to be all about your approach to the camera, pixels, and what type of subject floats your boat. — If you start investigating the photos and paintings of great artists — you can also learn a lot about how to make a simple everyday scene look fantastic from the Old Masters of painting. The magic of art is its ability to create something astonishing out of everyday mundane life.

The summer is neither here nor there in Berlin; The sun is hot enough to boil the oil in a parked car. — Then it rains and brings with it a powerful electrical storm, and torrents of rain that whip and lash at the helm of life. It’s interesting. I’ve had to choose my photography moments carefully. Most of the time I’m working on a photography book, my first, but not my first…

It’s when we write with emotion that our individual style comes through — There’s something special about being able to write down ideas and formulate them into understandable chunks where a reader can enjoy and learn. The enjoyment of reading, the increased understanding of a subject, all stems from the writer’s ability to succinctly convey a message. It’s all very well and nice…

Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive. — Late one night, my cat wouldn’t stop scratching and whining at the front door. I kept telling him to leave it, but he insisted I investigate. I opened the door, a man sat on the steps, one shoe and his crumpled sock on the floor, a needle between his toes. …

All artists are inspired by something or someone, but it’s not always important to know why we are inspired. — “I work completely intuitively, I do not have a concept,” Harry Gruyaert As a street photographer myself, I’m always working towards making fine art out of street motifs that rise and fall in the streets of Berlin. I do look for subjects, colour schemes…

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.” ― Ansel Adams — Ever since I got into digital photography, I’ve sought out the best places on the internet to connect with other photographers and artists. I do this to learn something I don’t know. Some of these places are good, some are full of erroneous advice that makes you feel as if…

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator — Eugène Delacroix — Time is like the weather, you have to constantly watch it as it changes, morphs, and stretches into its surreal combinations of drenching, drying, blowy atmosphere. Clouds shift across blue skies and block the sun, release it, dim it, split its rays into wild shafts. …

The Camera’s eye is attracted to the light, but the shadows have much more to say. — Yesterday was a street photography day for me. The summer is high and the sky is bright, but in spite of everything, it can change unexpectedly into choppy unpredictable weather. There’s a street corner in Berlin that I’ve become interested in, Unter den Linden. It’s a big crossroads, and I’ve…

If I knew how each street shot would turn out — I wouldn’t take the shot. — When I look around myself, I always seem to catch a glimpse of something bright, a crack of light that needs my attention.