About Me
My life as a photographer began in the shop of a photographic retail chain when an A4 enlargement of my best wedding photograph was handed back to me for the third time depicting the grey footpath in purple. I decided there and then that I must take matters into my own hands.
I had various cameras as a child. The first one was a Penti II, a small golden-coloured box produced in East Germany, where I grew up. It was a small format manual camera, which turned out lovely pictures. It is a real shame that the film format ceased to exist with the demise of the state in 1990.
I bought my first point-and-shoot camera in 1991, it was a Minolta Riva Twin 28 and - as it could be used without any manual input - I forgot all about the technical aspects of phototgraphy over time. 10 years later I married - and was confronted with the purple footpath. At that point I bought my first digital camera and a printer to do it all myself.
But digital cameras are every bit as tricky, if you want to take decent images with them. So I enrolled in a year-long distant learning course about photography. The variety of assignments opened doors to a whole new world. I started to look around more. The more you look, the more you see.
Over the last few years, I went on several workshops with professional photographers Steve Gosling and David Tarn, who taught me that just seeing is not enough, you have to "feel" what you photograph, so that the image you make carries the emotions of the moment within it and communicates them to the viewer. I am only at the beginning of this path, but I already know that going along it is a wonderful journey that has no limits. The only boundaries are those of my vision.
In February/March 2010 I have held my first exhibition, jointly with fellow landscape photographer Huw Alban, at the Riverhouse Barn in Walton-on-Thames. My images have been published in the UK and sold in the UK and US.
I had various cameras as a child. The first one was a Penti II, a small golden-coloured box produced in East Germany, where I grew up. It was a small format manual camera, which turned out lovely pictures. It is a real shame that the film format ceased to exist with the demise of the state in 1990.
I bought my first point-and-shoot camera in 1991, it was a Minolta Riva Twin 28 and - as it could be used without any manual input - I forgot all about the technical aspects of phototgraphy over time. 10 years later I married - and was confronted with the purple footpath. At that point I bought my first digital camera and a printer to do it all myself.
But digital cameras are every bit as tricky, if you want to take decent images with them. So I enrolled in a year-long distant learning course about photography. The variety of assignments opened doors to a whole new world. I started to look around more. The more you look, the more you see.
Over the last few years, I went on several workshops with professional photographers Steve Gosling and David Tarn, who taught me that just seeing is not enough, you have to "feel" what you photograph, so that the image you make carries the emotions of the moment within it and communicates them to the viewer. I am only at the beginning of this path, but I already know that going along it is a wonderful journey that has no limits. The only boundaries are those of my vision.
In February/March 2010 I have held my first exhibition, jointly with fellow landscape photographer Huw Alban, at the Riverhouse Barn in Walton-on-Thames. My images have been published in the UK and sold in the UK and US.