My version of Waterloo bridge inspired by Monets series of paintings of the Waterloo bridge.

Photography has long been in the shadow of the painters and not been considered real art for quite a long time. In the the 1920ties there was the Pictorialist movement in photography. The photographers of this movement altered their images using several techniques thus the  create an image and not just recored it, in the hope that those images would be considered to be art . only to be radically swept away by Stieglitz and the Photo-Session movement which  makred  "the rise of a new approach that claimed a value for photography as a revealer of truths about the modern world. "

Intentional Camera Movement is a technique which developed in the 1950ties, mainly used by Ernst Haas and others. By moving the camera intentionally while taking the image ICM photographers create images which resembles impressionist, surreal or fully abstract images.

Now in the days as cameras get sharper and can show every detail there is a growing number of photographers which experiment with this technique and other techniques to create  unsharp images like  Alex Lapidus,  Roxanne Overton or Margrit Schwarz

Jack Higgins explains in his book "Why it Does Not Have to be in Focus: Modern Photography Explained" more than  100 modern photographies and the ideas of the artists had while creating them, and what the images meant to the photographer or to a viewer. 
 One quote sticked to me: Gabor Ösz citing Plato with "Time is the moving picture of eternity".
While every images captures time and a subject, in Intentionally Camera Movement images time even plays a greater role than in "standard" images, 
as it is the time the sensor revealed to light and it it the time of the movement of the photographer and related to time: the velocity and acceleration and the way the sensor travelled.

Thus subject, way and time and the derivations to time (mathematically speaking) are in an image and now allow to create an picture of eternity which is unique in a double sense:
first of all the very moment in time the picture has recorded is gone forever
but also the movement, like the brushstroke of a painter, can never be replicated again.

A stunning idea, isn't it?
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Intentional Camera Movement is a technique which developed in the 1950ties, mainly used by Ernst Haas and others. By moving the camera intentionally while taking the image ICM photographers create images which resembles impressionist, surreal or fully abstract images.

Germany has still a lots of forests - 
most of them look a bit orderly and  industrialized nowadays,
as the trees have been planted by machines and stand in rows and columns sometimes which looks a bit odd for nature.

But there are still some places and those moments 
where some can find the mystery our ancestors felt while walking among the woods....

Series: My Germany
More can be found here within this G+ collection
on my http://www.heikomahr-photography.co/
 
​About the Series
Germany is a diverse country, with many different landscapes, some beauty and bountiful, some barren and harsh -
It  has high mountains like the alps in the south
plains with a far horizons in the north
Mountainous areas like black wood forest
and rolling hills close to my home.
- and many, many sights in between-
With this series I want to showing you a bit of the variety of my country -
How I do see it in color or black and white.
Hope you enjoy

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I always say that Germany is a diverse country - 
and it really is. Not only in landscapes,but also in culture.

The reason is that till the late 19th century Germany was not united but commonwealth of many different states which all had their own kings and heirs, their own laws and sometimes own measurement.

Germany finally did unite but the unification was due to the war of 1870/71 against France which started an area which was dominated by big wars each 25-30 years in Europe.

After the Second World War our Grandfathers and Fathers started to work on the unification of Europe without a war, as they understood that Europe could only survive if it won't be a different nations residing on the same continent but a commonwealth of states working together and following a common vision.

Unfortunately this vision was lost during the centuries, now Europe seems to be for many politicians a source of money, and for companies a source for buisness.
For us Europeans it should be a source of peace, freedom, liberty and equality.

Thus what can we do to unify Europe more?

Series: My Germany
More can be found here within this G+ collection
on my http://www.heikomahr-photography.co/

​About the Series
Germany is a diverse country, with many different landscapes, some beauty and bountiful, some barren and harsh -
It  has high mountains like the alps in the south
 plains with a far horizons in the north 
Mountainous areas like black wood forest
and rolling hills close to my home.
- and many, many sights in between- 
With this series I want to showing you a bit of the variety of my country -
How I do see it in color or black and white.
Hope you enjoy

Our life seems to run linear, but somehow it seems to be organized in circles
- the circle of the year, 
- the circle of a week
- the circle of a day
there are so many things which are repeating in our lifes,
but most of all we feel disturbed by  repeating things, we feel it is bored.

But repeating things - actively - hold a own potential which is worth to discover.
The things we repeat can be more than just things we repeat, 
but rituals which guides us, which gives us anchor points in 
our times, which change faster and faster each day.
By doing something which is steady, which repeats, 
we do quiet our mind, we practice a kind of meditation in action,
where our action become habits, just like brushing our teeth in the morning.
Daily rituals can help to set forth positive thoughts and positive thinking, 
because "You are what you think" - and what you think determines what you do.
Henry Ford once said" If you think you can - or you can't - both is true".
By starting a day which the experience that we did a thing we can, we give ourselves a first positive experiences
which might start the next task with a "Yes I can" attitude as well.


Read on here:  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-rituals-work/ 

Series: Structure & Clarity
Removing the original colors
from an image reveals forms and structures
and their relationships in a decluttered
clarity, which allows us new insights about the world
surrounding us.

#blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #BWphotography #BW #monochrome #nature
#stilllife #blackwhitephotography #blackwhite #clarity​​