The Importance of Soft-Proofing

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I’ve had the Epson 3800 for about 6 weeks now, and I’ve already made a few nice prints. I still have a lot to learn about the art of editing and printing, but… Continue reading

Next Step: Web Galleries

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Ever since this post I’ve been spending 4-5 hours a week looking through my images: rating, adding metadata, organizing, cataloging and deleting the less interesting ones. This is a difficult, tedious and exciting… Continue reading

Review of Looking East: Portraits by Steve McCurry

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Mike Johnston of The Online Photographer (TOP) has published my short review of the great book Looking East: Portraits by Steve McCurry. At first I thought of posting the review here, but the… Continue reading

Orange Abstract

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I brought my camera to work today in order to shoot more glasses. This time I didn’t wait until all colleagues had left, so I gathered some funny gazes, but that’s OK with… Continue reading

Pavement Patterns Again

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Well, I couldn’t help it — a few days ago I went back to the place with the broken asphalt and photographed it again. I photographed it for the first time about two… Continue reading

Winter Colors

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I have the feeling I’ve been posting too many “serious” images lately, so before the mood gets too gloomy, here are two images with nice winter colors. “Color” is not a word commonly… Continue reading

Charcoal Shadows

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Here are three more images for my “keeping my eyes open for interesting shapes and patterns in everyday objects” series. These are the normal glasses that all colleagues in the office use for… Continue reading

How about this one? Art or not?

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With my recent post about art I didn’t want to imply that that particular image was anything special, but I do think that is art. Here is a quote from Wikipedia: Visual art… Continue reading

Click on the Images

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A friend of mine remarked that (1) the images on this blog are too small to see well and (2) when there are multiple images in one post, it’s difficult to concentrate on… Continue reading

Is This Art?

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I recently confessed to being a technology-junkie and obsessing about photo equipment much more than about image content. Well, about a year ago that was indeed all that I cared about, but nowadays… Continue reading

Mastering the Digital Workflow

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In my previous post I covered the time until the beginning of 2006, when I still hadn’t achieved much of an understanding of the digital workflow. But since I had a real interest,… Continue reading

Why are There no Comments on this Blog?

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There seems to be a technical problem with leaving comments on WordPress.com (the host of this blog) — since about 6 weeks you cannot post any comments on this blog. If you want… Continue reading