ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The photo was taken in the old south cemetery in Munich/Germany. After many days of rain, that Sunday the sun was finally back. The elderly lady was around with this squirrel for nearly an hour talking to it, feeding it - most probably she had noone else to talk to. It was keeping her company that afternoon.
Finally the squirrell left her seeking for shelter as the day was coming to and end...
AUTHOR
The initial challenge is to understand, that each moments in life unique and gives us something to take along on our way. The struggle hereinafter lies in choosing between the ones to keep and the ones to let fade away and finally ’pausing’ this constant alternation of moments at the right time.
I am a German amateur photographer currently living in Greece. I got my first camera, a Kodak S100EF 35mm point-and-shoot film camera, from my dad at the age of seven. From the very first day on, I loved 'playing around' with my new toy, something my parents did not quite expect in such extend and were not really ‘fond’ of, as every single ‘click’ brought them closer to developing my next film and buying me a new one.
Nearly a decade after that I got my first SLR, a Russian KMZ Zenit, which was replaced by a Nikon F80 in 2004, when I started getting into photography more seriously. In 2006 I finally could not resist going digital, although I kept on shooting film - especially with the Nikon FA I inherited from my father!
In the end it was street and documentary photography that fascinated me most. For me it has become a catalyst, a ‘way out’, compensating daily rush and emotions. For sure there is an explanation for the affection in particular streetphotographers have for their, sometimes not, or misunderstood genre of photography.
For me it is this seemingly artless environment of the streets and everyday life which makes it so attractive. Countless microcosms come to light as one takes a closer look, like layers, emerging one by one, each telling its own anthropological story as you look behind the facade. It is all about discovering and capturing these moments which mostly just drift by unnoticed.
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