This picture shows an aurora butterfly sitting on its preferred food plant, meadowfoam. Here it was photographed with a more than 60-year-old Meyer-Görlitz Trioplan lens, which shows all light sources that lie in front of or behind the main subject as blurred "bubbles". This type of photography is far removed from purely documentary representation and thus clearly tends in the direction of "photo art".
The butterfly on its perching plant is on the one hand the main motif, but on the other hand part of a spring-like meadow impression. The green tones appear pleasantly fresh, the blossoms depicted as circles seem very playful, so that a picture has been created that seems striking but still has a nice eye-catching effect.
Printed in a particularly large format, the effect is shown to its best advantage!
Photography is painting with light. According to this motto, my pictures are created, whether as a long exposure or simply in the first or last light of the day.
Photography is more than a mere reproduction of reality. My pictures tell stories, create moods.
Many of my pictures have..
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