You can buy my photos via Werk aan de Muur: www.werkaandemuur.nl/index/shop/nl/Maerten-Prins/shop/6625

Reality is soo over-rated

I love to take pictures and have done so for as long as I can remember. My instruments chronologically: Olympus Trip, Nikon Nikkormat, Nikon F3, Yashica T5 (all analogous), Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 (my first digital, you know, the one with the floppy disks), Pentax Optio S4 (great camera: small, reasonable quality and outstanding super macro) a Nikon D70S, a Ricoh Caplio GX100 (small and handy, ugly but excellent), a Nikon D300, D700 and recently a Nikon D800. I mostly use the 24-70 (2.8) zoom.

For many years I worked in black and white. I did my own developing and printing. Reluctantly I went digital, and now I love it!

I became a paying Flickr-member in 2007 and I decided to post one photo a day (not necessarily one that I took that day), and now I have over 4000 photo's on Flickr. Via Flickr I met a lot of nice and friendly people, some of them have become very dear to me. Flickr also helped me develop my own style. I use colours, lines, curves, shadows, repetition and my favorite subject is modern architecture. Flickr has learned me to appreciate square format.

I do not manipulate my photo's - that is to say I do not cut and paste. My images are parts of reality, details, small elements, shadows. My work is somewhere between reality and abstract. Often people are puzzled by what they see. Well, they see the world through my eyes.

In 2011 I took the big step and became a part-time professional photographer. We'll see how it goes, but better tried and failed than never have tried.

Kort voor mijn vijftigste kreeg ik een verkeersongeluk en brak onder andere mijn rug, waardoor ik moeite heb met lopen. Ook kreeg ik een herseninfarct waardoor onder andere de balans verstoord is en mijn rechteroog minder goed werkt. Het deed me de schoonheid om mij heen nog meer waarderen. Ik kijk ook beter, en niet iedereen ziet wat ik zie. Het lijkt een spelletje ik-zie-ik-zie-wat-jij-niet-ziet. Ik zie schoonheid in details, ritme in lijnen en composities in schaduwen. De drie-dimensionele werkelijkheid breng ik het liefst terug tot een geometrische twee-dimensionele compositie van kleuren en vlakken.

All my photos are copyright protected. If you're interested in one, please mail me at maertenprins@gmail.com.

I have gathered some of my best photos in these books. Please feel free to order a copy ;-)

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Oh, and if you fave one of my photos and/or add me as a contact and/or have that stupid grey standard-icon and/or you don't share any photos of your own, I will block you. Nothing personal.