born in Germany/ small town near the River Rhine, but growing up in the countryside. now living in the land of the long white cloud, New Zealand..Aotearoa in the Maori language.

 

I am an amateur "photographer" from the age of 8th when my godmother kindled my passion for photography and gifted me my first box camera from Agfa. I came to recognize my camera as an instrument, perfectly equiped to support memory..which of course can play tricks on us.!

and photography for me is to look twice and a bit longer upon the enviroment I live in..........Life has become such a fast lane existence.

 

my favorite objects or subjects is nature and landscape. I also like architecture

 

and when I can, animals..they are great objects but often not cooperative...are they ever!

 

 

you see what I mean !!

 

  

never the less, I find a lot of solace in tracing them and very happy when successful. and when not there is still satisfaction in having been with nature, surrounded by it.

 

I am very careful with the need of image edting and prefer not to, though at times I sharpen up older, analoge photos. cropping large pix and adjust brightness and contrast. I use Picasa

 

I still use my Leica R4..analog

 

my newest edition:

Canon Powershot SX10 IS

which is a real little cracker and opend up long range objects and super macro.

 

a very handy..Sony Cyber-shot, as well as my 'old Girl'..but always ready: :

 

respect my copyright... don't use my work, unless I give permission doing so !!!!!!!

thank you and

Kia ora

  

  

Please don't add me to your Friendslist before asking me. I like to keep the numbers low, knowing I can't maintain thousand of contacts..but with those I have I can.

thank you