Already as a child I was fascinated by nature and the black and white quite artistical photographs my mother had taken with her Box Tengor. Neither my love for nature nor my enthusiasm for photography ever left me since.
Travelling, sports, spending time outdoors - and often all together - as well as art, were and still are the impetus and at the same time mediative center of my life.
Nature, for me means source and inspiration of all art. What had started in the caves of Lascaux and elsewhere with the early petroglyphs, was carried forward by artists - painters, sculptors and photographers - all over the world. Through my particular sight on the aesthetics and diversity of nature, in which I identify abstract forms and structures, I want to sharpen the eye of the viewer for the often quite hidden beauty of our environment, the challenge now is to preserve.
I never made great efforts to be taken for a specialist, and have never tried to make myself at home in a certain sector of photography.
I did not want to be regarded as an "outstanding landscape photographer", or as an "outstanding photo reporter" or as an "outstanding portraitist"; I contented myself with the reputation of being a "good photographer"....
Martin Munkacsi in: "Knipsen - aber mit Verstand" (Snapping - but with reason), a guidebook for amateurs who want to make good pictures
Although nature is my central topic I still remain curious and dabble on other photographic subjects too. As the American street photographer Garry Winograd says: I am taking pictures because I want to know how something looks when it was photographed. - Me too.
