Tree Reflection - Image 5526 - Limited Edition 1 of 10 Photograph

As a visual artist I am interested in the unseen. It’s not the looks, but the usually unclear, yet deep feel that attracts me. I think of my works as poetry. Motion & focus blurs with lens tilt & shift used in reverie leads to vague images, allowing viewers to dream their own interpretations of my works. --- I was living in Berlin back in 1996 when I bought my first SLR camera for trips to Egypt, Greece and Turkey. Over the moon with 3 photos out of 14 rolls of films, I was hooked with photography, and decided to make the camera a permanent necklace. I neglected my automotive engineering study for two and a half years, but eventually finished it and worked as a passenger car development engineer at The Mercedes-Benz Technology Center in Sindelfingen. Moving back to Bali in 2004 with my wife to raise our baby daughter, I turned my hobby into a profession and setup PhotoFactory with her. Ten years later, I started doing fine art photography. Connection is my favourite subject. It could be anything, to which I feel a connection. I don’t see the final image in front of me nor in my head when I start clicking, but instead let the universe take over. With the techniques of long exposure with camera shake, lens tilting and shifting, I sort of give up control when an image is being created. My works are simple and vague, but as we look at them, we discover more and more, visually and emotionally. It keeps them interesting for a long time, and we can always come back and be with them.