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About me
From a 6x9 Box Brownie to digital, which I rather like, I have owned and used a few cameras over the years. I worked in photo journalism for many years, both in the field and on the desk. These days I have more time to only photograph what I like, with the pressure being taken off me.

I am a firm believer in that the camera does not make the photographer, borne out by the fact that today's inexpensive (digital) cameras can produce good/great results in the hands of the skilled photographer. The message is in the image, not in the camera.

I am not a fan of images that have been endlessly "worked upon". And I am definitely not a fan of HDR as very few people appear to be able to use it skilfully and instead feel that it is o.k. to (completely) go over the top, thus producing some horrendous results. HDR, subtle, it mostly ain't.

I feel myself at present drawn to "the streets", which at the at the moment are the streets of London. Crap city, but a very photogenic one. And there you have it.
Gender
Male
Lives in
London, United Kingdom
Member since
November 3, 2011
Languages I speak
English, German
Interests
Cinema, especially Asian
Favorite books
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Favorite music
Classical (especially Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Puccini, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, and also so called "early music")
Bob Dylan ("Not Dark Yet" ! )
Onitsuka Chihiro http://bit.ly/uCgWta
Renato Zero http://bit.ly/rQbGz6 "...e amore" !
Favorite movies
by director
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"Wild Strawberries" (Smultronstället); dir.: Ingmar Bergman | Sweden 1957
"Winter Light" (Nattvardsgästerna); dir.: Ingmar Bergman | Sweden 1963
"War and Peace" (Voyna i mir); dir.: Sergei Bondarchuk | Russia 1967
"La Dolce Vita"; dir.: Federico Fellini | Italy 1960
"The Double Live of Veronique" (La double vie de Véronique); dir.: Krzysztof Kieslowski, | Poland, France 1991
"Three Colours: Red" (Trois couleurs: Rouge); dir.: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, France, Switzerland 1991
"Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring" (Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom); dir.: Ki-duk Kim | Korea 2003
"Harakiri" (Seppuku); dir.: Masaki Kobayashi | Japan 1962
"Rashomon" (Rashômon); dir.: Akira Kurosawa | Japan 1950
"The Seven Samurai" (Shichinin no samurai); dir.: Akira Kurosawa | Japan 1954
"Metropolis"; dir.: Fritz Lang | Germany 1927
"Nosferatu" (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens); dir.: F.W. Murnau | Germany 1922
"Tokyo Story" (Tôkyô monogatari); dir.: Yasujirô Ozu | Japan 1953 || plus just about everything else by Ozu
"Oldboy" (Oldeuboi); dir.: Chan-wook Park | Korea 2003
"Sátántangó"; dir.: Béla Tarr | Hungary 1994
"Werckmeister Harmonies" (Werckmeister harmóniák); dir.: Béla Tarr | Hungary 2000
"Still Life" (Sanxia haoren); dir.: Ke Jia Zhang | China 2006
Inspiration
HCB, and you should know whom the initials stand for ;-)
Favorite quotes
"The most difficult thing in photography is resisting the temptation to press the shutter button." Now, if I only could remember who said that.
Photo equipment
Nikon D5000, Samsung EX1, Samsung WB650, monopod, tripod, an unremarkable shoulder bag ;-)
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