ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The image shows the old Japanese horse stables of the Negishi Memorial Race Track in Yokohama, Japan. The stables are now an equine museum and the grandstand is derelict. The old historical building looks fantastic and looks kinda spooky in bad weather. This gave me the idea to manipulate the original image. Added light to the lanterns and the birds in the sky (including the three hawks). Converted to black and white and darkened the image. Applied highlights in the centre and a dark vignetting.

AUTHOR
I am Austrian Nationality, born in 1966 in Swizerland. I started getting interrest in art when I was 20 years old. I started with "fantasy and surealistic" paintings in acrylic and oil on canvas and managed to get an exhibition arranged for a selection of paintings. Sometime later, I purchased me my forst SLR camera (Film) and started experimenting with B&W photography, however, at this time, taking photography as a serious hobby was too expensive for me (due to film developmant equipment needed for dark room etc.), therefore I stopped photography.

25 years later, I took up photography again. Times had changed with digital photography where dark rooms are not an issue anymore and the development and manipulation of photographs takes place on a PC. I became quite enthusiastic about photography, and, sometimes, feel that I might be obsessed with it.

One of my passions is manipulating photographs with photoshop or similar applications to the extend that it combines different elements of different photographs and even artificially generated elements (back to fantasy and surealistic art).

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