• Around home and village

    Feel of winter

    2015-02-09 /

    One day when fresh snow arrived I decided to take a stroll around our village with my camera though I didn’t expect capturing much. Seemingly, there isn’t much to capture in the village after having lived there for a few years. Yet I was proven wrong once again because I “found” a few captures I really liked. For example this gate leading… where exactly? Into your childhood? That’s a Mirabelle bush where local children like to hide and play. A part of the village is a bit remote and the road leading to that part represents a path where the locals – including my family – go for a stroll…

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  • Focused on photography

    White, round and minimalist

    2015-02-08 /

    Week 3 of Be still 52 invited us to gather various table tops and back drops to have interesting and suitable foregrounds and backgrounds for our photos. After rummaging in our house I’m perfectly sure there is not much to use, I need to buy a few things to start with. For the time being I decided to follow a challenge offered by Kim to those being already stocked with tops, textiles and backgrounds, which was to use any or all 3 of the following prompts: WHITE – ROUND – MINIMALIST You know me, I wanted all… and created the following image: It’s not a typical still life, rather an…

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    Moving on

    2015-02-04 /

    On Sunday I finished successfully the Art of Photography course with all of its videos, quizzes and assessments and could download my Certificate of Achievement. It feels great to accomplish something I had decided to accomplish. The course enriched me very much and I don’t regret the time and energy I invested into following it. I’m happy I took all those notes as I’d like to get back to them later to refresh some of the ideas. I’d recommend the course to anyone who would like to acquire or brush up on their photographic perception. It contains some technical stuff but also points at various principles and ideas that may…

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    Full steam ahead

    2015-01-19 /

    It’s been a very busy start of the year but also very inspiring. Can you be busy and relaxed at the same time? Two weeks of the Art of Photography course are behind me with two assessments passed successfully, two weeks are in front of me to be fulfilled. It’s obvious that the contents of the course can’t reach very deep in such a short term and within the wide range of topics and it’s true that I already know the basics. Yet there ARE new pieces of information included and I find it enormously interesting to listen to the lessons. Fortunately I don’t have any problem to understand the…

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  • Miscellaneous

    PF 2015

    2015-01-02 /

    2014 is over and when I look back at it, I can see so many things that challenged me, enriched me and pushed me forward. We may be a year older but also we are a year more experienced and that counts. I became strongly aware of the fact that circumstances of our lives are never ideal but offer us many chances to grow personally and follow our dreams. And learn or develop something we should have done years ago but perhaps needed to grow up to it. I didn’t share many posts on this blog in 2014 but I’m pleased to say that I successfully finished my 52-week photography…

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    Evaluation of my 52-week photo project

    2014-12-31 /

    2014 will soon be over and I’d like to evaluate the 52-week photo project I started at the beginning of the year. If you are interested in hearing what it was or was not good for, sit back comfortably and read on. It’s quite personal and it would be a different process for you but I guess we are not that different in many regards. First of all I wanted to express my heartfelt thanks to my wonderful husband for supporting me and helping me with everything I needed. He was often accompanying me, sometimes taking his own photos, sometimes just being there with me which also helped. Further I…

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