a moment from Paris: sitting on the steps of Sacre Coeur, listening to this cover band playing, feeling this happiness of  an unique moment - and trying to capture it. seen like this, a video is a crop of reality, too. everything is.

today is inspired by photo friday‘s challenge: “Enormous” the bridge photo is from a road trip through Florida, taken somewhere between Tampa and Naples. no stopping option there, so it’s taken right through the windshield – looking at it now, it feels the light reflections adds to the otherworldliness of the scene. below, the full image. […]

today: picking up yesterday’s flowers and trying some variations. the blue one makes me think of sea anemones and starfish. (which are called “Seerosen + Seestern”  in german: ”sea roses + sea stars”)

another garden photos: a close up of a Zinnia which started to blossom some days ago,  and now develops row after row of  petals. if you look close, you can see the next row unrolling in the centre. i thought i know about petals, but now looked up the Wiki-page, and learned 3 new words: […]

natural art from the garden here: this is a common “Wicke”. i just checked in Wikipedia, the english word for it is Vicia – a flowering plant that belongs to the “legume” family. which is funny, as legume means “vegetable” in French. so i looked that up, too, and it turns out that “the term […]

today, i launched the new issue of BluePrintReview. the theme of it is: “challenge”. it was partly this theme that made me commit to 100 days: the perfect time for a 100 day challenge obviously is while editing a challenge issue.  the cover of the issue is an edited version of a photo i took in Paris, […]

today: picking up Valerie’s feedback from yesterday:  “I really love what you are doing with your photographs. The close-ups/crops are really intriguing and I like how you include the original. Everything looks so different upon further inspection, eh?” the lines made me think of  “the river of stones”, which i joined in January, and which is on now […]

a july moment from last year in close-up. and here, the original:

today: 2 abstracts of yesterday’s phlox image. the first made me think of matrix. and a link – a blog post from this morning that also includes the image: the horrible beauty of the world.

after the abroad journey moments, a home moment: a close-up of the phlox flowers that are in bloom now, here, in the backyard.