Homage to the camera and the eye that can see beauty

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”

There is a joke i heard recently:

“What is the difference between the tourist snap-shotters and the selfie-makers and a photographer?”

” ….. They all make pictures.”

Hahaha ; )

Thanks (or rather not) to digital cameras and smartphones the tsunami of pictures on computer hard-drives and on the web is almost frightening.

Quantity kills quality.

The time we take to take in a picture, to allow it to reach us deep inside … is diminishing rapidly.

Who still wants to go to a gallery and stand before a well framed, well hanged photo for 10 minutes?

If you can have millions of them on Instagram?

I don’t really complain, all of that is also very informational and empowering for the many.

Myself, i have been refusing to have my picture taken for the longest time and have been dismissing photography altogether.

Fixing the flow of life in a snap! Thats what i did not like.

But then – thru a lucky circumstance – i was offered a camera and a task to do with it: portraits.

And i was hooked : )

This camera, a battered classic Nikon, became my companion and my means of expressing things i saw. And how i saw them. And it became my teacher to look and see in more conscious ways. To see how things are composed and arranged by life. To look beyond the surface of faces and things. To capture atmosphere and the soul of what i see.

A real adventure and a growing it was for quite some years, a precious phase of my life.

Here i wish to pay homage and express my gratitude to a few the masters who have been my inspiration on this journey.

Also it was hard to choose now which pictures to show, it was a very interesting process too.

Hope you enjoy!

Try to spend more than 2 seconds at one photo, it pays off! ; )

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