It's a photo after all: on a colourless, uneasy winter day, I was cycling along a stretch of wetland and with the reflections in the soggy puddles, all those reeds stood out to me as two-dimensional lines and scratches and I was curious to see if I could capture that. After a few minutes, I decided disappointedly that I couldn't. But once at home, I only really see what I have shot and when I saw this image, for a moment I thought I was dealing with a chalk drawing or etching, I even had to think of the German artist Anselm Kiefer, but it is in fact my own photo and in post-processing I actually only reduced the contrasts slightly to emphasise the photographic properties a bit more without compromising that surprising, confusing graphic quality.
Gear: SonyA7iii, Sony 223mm f9, 1/160 sec
Isn't it fascinating, all that beauty lying beautiful around us, regardless of whether anyone is around to see it? With that thought, I come to my photographs; mostly cycling, I save the fleeting fragments that pass by. They are images of something bigger than me, .. Read more…