Grant Simon Rogers

Photo Synthesis For the Sun & Other Deities Treptower Park 12435 Berlin #LeicaCamera ƒ/16 @1/2000 ISO:100 Daylight & Flash (on, fired) This is a picture I made last June. A day of nightingales and thunderstorms. Not the easiest of images for Instagram either but I don’t make them for this platform, merely share them. This platform has in the past given me pleasure and to look at your works in return, gives me an immense amount of pleasure. Not so interested in selfies, shoes, holidays (jealous of course despite the carbon footprint) but I am interested in any picture or reel of kittens, cats or dogs, falling over, off or into things. Thats what instagram is really for. - That said, I love it when it all falls into place. These pictures were easy. This picture was easy. It just fell into my lens. I made a lit jig on the inside after I had made this. It’s not merely bucolic, it has a lot of visual interest and textural complexities. I have been loving thinking in monochrome recently. I go through phases. Every picture tells a story. It means something completely different to each and every viewer but we all start from the same place. - Slow burners are long burners. I can live with this image. It is A Printer - Stay safe. Stay creative. - Alles liebe aus dem Baumhaus

Photo Synthesis
For the Sun & Other Deities

Treptower Park
12435 Berlin

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A PhotoSynthesis: For the Sun & Other Deities Marche Pour la Cerémonie des Turcs #LeicaCamera ƒ/16 @1/2000 ISO:100 Daylight & Flash (on, fired) Treptower Park 12435 Berlin - Plants are interwoven into the day to day of our lives. They are a source of food. An integral part of the Bio Diversity of our shared environment. A source for poets and chemists. They are part of our history of colour. They are mediative, symbolic. For artists they provide subject and pigment. Like a photograph, plants rely on light for their existence. The link between the two is for me, profound. Many of the plants around us are refugee species from other parts of the world. - I am not one for sharing pictures with music. I think it influences the viewer far too much and the "finished" image will change with our moods and feelings towards it. Music will anchor it, which for me, is like a padlock on a fence to symbolise love. In this particular case I instantly heard a piece of music in my head. I was laughing as I made this photo. I hummed the tune all of the way home. I am still humming it now. Marche Pour la Cerémonie des Turcs 1670 Born. Giovanni Battista Lulli. Florence 1632 - Died Jean-Baptiste Lully. Paris. 1687

PhotoSynthesis
For the Sun & Other Deities

Treptower Park
12435 Berlin
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Ear Worm: Marche Pour la Cerémonie des Turcs
Jean-Baptiste Lully. 1670

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Seasoning - Tempelhofer Feld 10965 Berlin Germany - A low viewpoint through wind blown grass. The foreground grass is out of focus as the lens depth of field comes into play in the overall composition. It was a good day. Today I sat in the grass, in my shorts and got a rash and this picture. I listened to the wind through this grass. I like the word Susurrus, that can be used to describe this sound. The wind was gusting. “Blowing a Hooley” also has a poetic tone to it. A different type of tone to susurrus but it makes me smile too. I listened to the skylarks overhead. I listened to the faint noise of traffic, just distant enough. In between the gusts, I could here insects, grasshoppers, bees, flies. I listened to boom box techno a dog walker shared with the world as they walked by. Monday 23 Jun at about 13.30, it was very windy on Tempelhofer Feld. It is now a Monday I will never forget because I made this picture of it. - Thank you for reading. Be safe. - ALLES LIEBE AUS DEM BAUMHAUS

Seasoning

Tempelhofer Feld
10965 Berlin

ƒ/16 @1/2000 ISO:200 Daylight & Flash (off camera)
Monday 23 June 2025 @ 13.24.21

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Beer Gardeners' Question Time
 #leicacamera ƒ/16 @1/2000 ISO:100 Daylight & Flash (off camera) Trousers: BBC Home Service/9 April 1947/22.15(pm) Attitude: Sowerbutts, Loads, Clark and Sansome. Pink and purple peonies photographed from the side and slightly below. This is an intentionally underexposed picture that is relit with a flash held off camera to the left of the subject. The sky beyond is over cast with heavy rain clouds with the merest hint of the blue sky beyond the clouds. The title is aimed at my British viewer, I think I have at least one, will know of Gardeners’ Question Time? This is a BBC Radio staple since 1947, when the BBC first broadcast it on what was then known as The Home Service. Gardeners’ Question Time was a development of a war time, Ministry to Information public campaign known as Dig For Victory. BBCR4s Gardeners’ Question Time is not to be confused with Question Time on the same channel. A very similar format, where elected and or populist political figures are invited to share their thoughts on questions submitted by listeners (and viewers). Tens of thousands of listeners form the weekly audience for Gardeners’ Question Time submitting their questions on all aspects of their gardening needs to a panel of experts. They receive, thoughtful, helpful and inspirational advice from the panelists. This is where Gardeners’ Question Time & Question Time diverge somewhat. I still listen to an episode from time to time. 

I come from a family of gardeners. They are partly my inspiration for these works. All of my Grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, parents, sister had or have a profound love of their gardens. It is in the blood. It is the summer and every time I visit a beer garden, I think of this R4 classic. I live on the third floor of a 1904 apartment block. I have a small balcony. Berlins parks and gardens are my studio.

Beer Gardeners' Question Time

Treptower Park
Puschkinallee 31
12435 Berlin, DE

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Village Greens ii

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Title: Book of the Seven Seas Camera Data: ƒ/16 @1/2000 ISO:100 Daylight & Flash (on, fired) A photograph of summer grass being blown in the coastal wind on the Baltic coast of Denmark. The foreground composition is full of very delicate summers grass that has a web like quality as my flash illuminates it. The tree at the back of the compositions is seen this time in whole. It is not cut off at the top or bottom. The picture is taken directly into the direction of the sun. The rolling cumulus clouds are grey with a distinct silver lining. August 2024 for the first time in what has felt like years, I had a summer holiday. I cannot jump on an aircraft without thinking of the negative impact on our environment so this was a trip by train, ferry and coach. I can’t turn off what I know to suit my own ends. A Beach holiday has to very close to home or at the very least, a train ride away. This picture is made on the reverse, or the landward side of sand dunes on the Danish baltic coast. In my opinion (which I will change) these are the best pictures I made last year. The most original for me, anyway. Over the last decade, these flora portraits have become my passion and delight. These photographs are all day time, with virtually no post processing. I make them in the camera. When I look back at my pictures I always struck by what I would have missed if I wasn’t looking. That is one of the gifts of photography for me. collectors editions are available on enquiry. Alles liebe aus dem BaumHaus

Book of the Seven Seas

Camera Data: ƒ/16 @1/2000 ISO:100 Daylight & Flash (on, fired)

4873 Væggerløse
Denmark

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Wind Blowing From Left to Right Blowing Through Cherry Blossom. Schmeterlingfeld, is a tiny space of green to encourage biodiversity along the side of the Landwehr Canal, Berlin. On this space, smaller than half a tennis court are three juvenile cherry trees. They are always a treat to see and photograph. Every year this mini Sakura is a magnet for me. It is in itself worth the effort but it is on the exact location of a memorable scene from Wim Wenders’ Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire), 1987. That’s enough for me. Good times - Over the last decade, these flora portraits have become my passion and delight. I simply love making them. When I look back at my pictures I always struck by what I would have missed if I wasn’t looking. - What I would like any viewer to understand about my photography is the following. * I make 90% of my work in Berlin Green Spaces. This topographical landscape has memory. It tells stories. I am a storyteller. * I prefer to work "in camera" so there is minimal post processing on my pictures. These pictures are straight out of the camera. * They are all daytime pictures, underexposed to appear dark and relit with an off camera flash. * Influenced consciously by 15th to 18th century European Painting but unconsciously, just about everything else. * I am clearly stating, "Look what I would have missed if I wasn't looking" which feels one hundred times more authentic than the somewhat arrogant, “look at what everyone else is overlooking.” * I cannot think of the creative process as a shot. To me, I make pictures. Thank you for reading - ALLES LIEBE AUS DEM BAUMHAUS

Wind Blowing From Left to Right Blowing Through Cherry Blossom. Schmeterlingfeld, is a tiny space of green to encourage biodiversity along the side of the Landwehr Canal, Berlin. On this space, smaller than half a tennis court are three juvenile cherry trees. They are always a treat to see and photograph. Every year this mini Sakura is a magnet for me. It is in itself worth the effort but it is on the exact location of a memorable scene from Wim Wenders’ Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire), 1987. That’s enough for me. Good times - Over the last decade, these flora portraits have become my passion and delight. I simply love making them. When I look back at my pictures I always struck by what I would have missed if I wasn’t looking. - What I would like any viewer to understand about my photography is the following. * I make 90% of my work in Berlin Green Spaces. This topographical landscape has memory. It tells stories. I am a storyteller. * I prefer to work "in camera" so there is minimal post processing on my pictures. These pictures are straight out of the camera. * They are all daytime pictures, underexposed to appear dark and relit with an off camera flash. * Influenced consciously by 15th to 18th century European Painting but unconsciously, just about everything else. * I am clearly stating, "Look what I would have missed if I wasn't looking" which feels one hundred times more authentic than the somewhat arrogant, “look at what everyone else is overlooking.” * I cannot think of the creative process as a shot. To me, I make pictures. Thank you for reading - ALLES LIEBE AUS DEM BAUMHAUS

Wind Blowing From Left to Right Blowing Through Cherry Blossom. Schmeterlingfeld, is a tiny space of green to encourage biodiversity along the side of the Landwehr Canal, Berlin. On this space, smaller than half a tennis court are three juvenile cherry trees. They are always a treat to see and photograph. Every year this mini Sakura is a magnet for me. It is in itself worth the effort but it is on the exact location of a memorable scene from Wim Wenders’ Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire), 1987. That’s enough for me. Good times - Over the last decade, these flora portraits have become my passion and delight. I simply love making them. When I look back at my pictures I always struck by what I would have missed if I wasn’t looking. - What I would like any viewer to understand about my photography is the following. * I make 90% of my work in Berlin Green Spaces. This topographical landscape has memory. It tells stories. I am a storyteller. * I prefer to work "in camera" so there is minimal post processing on my pictures. These pictures are straight out of the camera. * They are all daytime pictures, underexposed to appear dark and relit with an off camera flash. * Influenced consciously by 15th to 18th century European Painting but unconsciously, just about everything else. * I am clearly stating, "Look what I would have missed if I wasn't looking" which feels one hundred times more authentic than the somewhat arrogant, “look at what everyone else is overlooking.” * I cannot think of the creative process as a shot. To me, I make pictures. Thank you for reading - ALLES LIEBE AUS DEM BAUMHAUS

Three Pictures of Wind Blowing Through Cherry Blossom From Left to Right.

Lohmühlenbrücke
12045 Berlin
Germany

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Thank you. The gust happened at just the right moment ❋ ❋ ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ ♡

Just a gusty corner of Berlin in the spring. Lohmühlenbrücke is a famous film location too

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Great city. Lovely picture of it too

There’s a famous spot. And will endure longer than any Presidency. You seem to get about quite a bit?

Wind Blowing From Left to Right Blowing Through Cherry Blossom. Schmeterlingfeld, is a tiny space of green to encourage biodiversity along the side of the Landwehr Canal, Berlin. On this space, smaller than half a tennis court are three juvenile cherry trees. They are always a treat to see and photograph. Every year this mini Sakura is a magnet for me. It is in itself worth the effort but it is on the exact location of a memorable scene from Wim Wenders’ Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire), 1987. That’s enough for me. Good times - Over the last decade, these flora portraits have become my passion and delight. I simply love making them. When I look back at my pictures I always struck by what I would have missed if I wasn’t looking. - What I would like any viewer to understand about my photography is the following. * I make 90% of my work in Berlin Green Spaces. This topographical landscape has memory. It tells stories. I am a storyteller.  * I prefer to work "in camera" so there is minimal post processing on my pictures. These pictures are straight out of the camera. * They are all daytime pictures, underexposed to appear dark and relit with an off camera flash.  * Influenced consciously by 15th to 18th century European Painting but unconsciously, just about everything else.  * I am clearly stating, "Look what I would have missed if I wasn't looking" which feels one hundred times more authentic than the somewhat arrogant, “look at what everyone else is overlooking.”  * I cannot think of the creative process as a shot. To me, I make pictures. Thank you for reading - ALLES LIEBE AUS DEM BAUMHAUS

Wind Blowing From Left to Right, Through Cherry Blossom.

Lohmühlenbrücke
12045 Berlin
Germany

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That’s kind. Thank you

A picture looking throught the branches of a magnolia tree, illuminated by a flash. Every year I visit the same tree. Will there be a new picture for me this year? Yes. There always is. It is always a treat. - Over the last decade, these flora portraits have become my passion and delight. I simply love making them. When I look back at my pictures I always struck by what I would have missed if I wasn’t looking. - What I would like any viewer to understand about my photography is the following. * I make 90% of my work in Berlin Green Spaces. This topographical landscape has memory. It tells stories. I am a storyteller.  * I prefer to work "in camera" so there is minimal post processing on my pictures. These pictures are straight out of the camera. * They are all daytime pictures, underexposed to appear dark and relit with an off camera flash.  * Influenced consciously by 15th to 18th century European Painting but unconsciously, just about everything else.  * I am clearly stating, "Look what I would have missed if I wasn't looking" which feels one hundred times more authentic than the somewhat arrogant, “look at what everyone else is overlooking.”  * I cannot think of the creative process as a shot. To me, I make pictures.

Bergmannstrasse Magnolia

Alter Luisenstädtischer Friedhof
10961 Berlin

Every year I visit the same tree. Will there be a new picture for me this year? Look at what I would have missed if I couldn't be bothered.

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Dunning-Kruger Effect

#LeicaCamera ƒ/11 @1/1000 ISO:100 Daylight & Off Camera Flash

Trousers: Over Estimated my Reach

Attitude: Specifically overconfident of myself at a particular task.

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The COLD SONG, after Klaus Nomi Willowing. Part 1. - Friedhof Alt-Stralau 10245 Berlin - One of the most beautiful songs in my world for one on my most beautiful trees. I can listen to this version form the Purcell opera, over and over and never fail to be moved. Contradiction, Part 100+. I claim I don’t enjoy songs or soundtracks to visual arts. The music is by it’s very nature more accessible and shapes the response to the visual arts, turning my experience of it into a passive interaction. Of course, this is the intention but I claim prefer without. I have a soundtrack to all of my pictures, the city of Berlin. In this particular day I had an ear worm for what I now know to be the Klaus Nomi version of The Cold Song. - Over the last decade, these flora portraits have become my passion and delight. These photographs are all day time, with virtually no post processing. I make them in the camera. When I look back at my pictures I always struck by what I would have missed if I wasn’t looking. What I would like any viewer to understand about my work is the following. * I make 90% of my work in Berlin Green Spaces. This topographical landscape has memory. It tells stories. I am a storyteller.  * I prefer to work "in camera" so there is minimal post processing on my pictures. These pictures are straight out of the camera. * They are all daytime pictures, underexposed to appear dark and relit with an off camera flash.  * Influenced consciously by 15th to 18th century European Painting but unconsciously, just about everything else.  * I am clearly stating, "Look what I would have missed if I wasn't looking" which feels one hundred times more authentic than the somewhat arrogant, “look at what everyone else is overlooking.”  Thank you for reading - ALLES LIEBE AUS DEM BAUMHAUS

The COLD SONG, after Klaus Nomi Willowing. Part 2. - Friedhof Alt-Stralau 10245 Berlin - One of the most beautiful songs in my world for one on my most beautiful trees. I can listen to this version form the Purcell opera, over and over and never fail to be moved. Contradiction, Part 100+. I claim I don’t enjoy songs or soundtracks to visual arts. The music is by it’s very nature more accessible and shapes the response to the visual arts, turning my experience of it into a passive interaction. Of course, this is the intention but I claim prefer without. I have a soundtrack to all of my pictures, the city of Berlin. In this particular day I had an ear worm for what I now know to be the Klaus Nomi version of The Cold Song. - Over the last decade, these flora portraits have become my passion and delight. These photographs are all day time, with virtually no post processing. I make them in the camera. When I look back at my pictures I always struck by what I would have missed if I wasn’t looking. What I would like any viewer to understand about my work is the following. * I make 90% of my work in Berlin Green Spaces. This topographical landscape has memory. It tells stories. I am a storyteller.  * I prefer to work "in camera" so there is minimal post processing on my pictures. These pictures are straight out of the camera. * They are all daytime pictures, underexposed to appear dark and relit with an off camera flash.  * Influenced consciously by 15th to 18th century European Painting but unconsciously, just about everything else.  * I am clearly stating, "Look what I would have missed if I wasn't looking" which feels one hundred times more authentic than the somewhat arrogant, “look at what everyone else is overlooking.”  Thank you for reading - ALLES LIEBE AUS DEM BAUMHAUS

The COLD SONG, after Klaus Nomi Willowing. Part 3. - Friedhof Alt-Stralau 10245 Berlin - One of the most beautiful songs in my world for one on my most beautiful trees. I can listen to this version form the Purcell opera, over and over and never fail to be moved. Contradiction, Part 100+. I claim I don’t enjoy songs or soundtracks to visual arts. The music is by it’s very nature more accessible and shapes the response to the visual arts, turning my experience of it into a passive interaction. Of course, this is the intention but I claim prefer without. I have a soundtrack to all of my pictures, the city of Berlin. In this particular day I had an ear worm for what I now know to be the Klaus Nomi version of The Cold Song. - Over the last decade, these flora portraits have become my passion and delight. These photographs are all day time, with virtually no post processing. I make them in the camera. When I look back at my pictures I always struck by what I would have missed if I wasn’t looking. What I would like any viewer to understand about my work is the following. * I make 90% of my work in Berlin Green Spaces. This topographical landscape has memory. It tells stories. I am a storyteller.  * I prefer to work "in camera" so there is minimal post processing on my pictures. These pictures are straight out of the camera. * They are all daytime pictures, underexposed to appear dark and relit with an off camera flash.  * Influenced consciously by 15th to 18th century European Painting but unconsciously, just about everything else.  * I am clearly stating, "Look what I would have missed if I wasn't looking" which feels one hundred times more authentic than the somewhat arrogant, “look at what everyone else is overlooking.”  Thank you for reading - ALLES LIEBE AUS DEM BAUMHAUS

Willowing: Part 1, 2 & 3.
The COLD SONG, after Klaus Nomi

Friedhof Alt-Stralau
10245 Berlin

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Conductor 71 A photograph of roses named after the magnificent Marius Re Goring in the Powell & Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death. Photographed in colour in Treptower Park. The photograph has a low view point and we look up at three small clusters of roses in a V composition. The two clusters above and to the back are a lot darker than the group of roses at the intersection of the V. Beyond the roses is a partly overcast sky with the sun behind the clouds crating a silver lining. My pictures are daylight, underexposed and relit with an off camera flash. They are nearly all photographed in cities I do not post process these pictures. I don’t really like photography in general that much if I am honest.

Conductor 71

Treptower Park
Puschkinallee 27–29
12435 Berlin

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What a wonderful Monday morning.

44INCH PRINTWORKS Berlin days are the BEST days.

The final joyous part of the creative process. The Print.

A small selection from an exhibition here in Berlin, this coming March

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Sunflowers photographed in black and white against a dark blue sky that appears to be black in this monochrome image. What I would like any viewer to understand about my work is the following. * I make 90% of my work in Berlin Green Spaces. This topographical landscape has memory. It tells stories. I am a storyteller.  * I prefer to work "in camera" so there is minimal post processing on my pictures. These pictures are straight out of the camera. * They are all daytime pictures, underexposed to appear dark and relit with an off camera flash.  * Influenced consciously by 15th to 18th century European Painting but unconsciously, just about everything else.  * I am clearly stating, "Look what I would have missed if I wasn't looking" which feels one hundred times more authentic than the somewhat arrogant, “look at what everyone else is overlooking.” 

Engels Coffee & Sunflowers for the Empress Theodora

Tempelhofer Feld
12049 Berlin

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Portsdown Greens
Memories of The Shire on the way to the pub

South Boarhunt Lane
South Boarhunt
PO17
England

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The Garden of Earthly Delights: Bish, Bash, Bosch Tunnelstraße 36B 10245 Berlin A picture AFTER Hieronymus Bosch 1450-1516 I have been trying to figure how how spectacularly damaged you have to be to thing that Trump is a good thing? Haven’t come up with an answer and I doubt I ever will? So absolutely nothing to do with photography, so I better write something for those who are still reading, if indeed anyone reads this nonsense. It is a picture of a magnolia tree in blossom that virtually fills the square format frame. The Petals look like gloved hands or white butterflies that form a cup like curve through the picture starting form the top left, curving down to the bottom before curving up to the top right. The sky was bright blue on the day I made this picture, so in B&W, it appears black. What I would like any viewer to understand about my work is the following. * I make 90% of my work in Berlin Green Spaces. This topographical landscape has memory. It tells stories. I am a storyteller.  * I prefer to work "in camera" so there is minimal post processing on my pictures. These pictures are straight out of the camera. * They are all daytime pictures, underexposed to appear dark and relit with an off camera flash.  * Influenced consciously by 15th to 18th century European Painting but unconsciously, just about everything else.  * I am clearly stating, "Look what I would have missed if I wasn't looking" which feels one hundred times more authentic than the somewhat arrogant, “look at what everyone else is overlooking.”  Thank you for reading ALLES LIEBE AUS DEM BAUMHAUS

The Garden of Earthly Delights: Bish, Bash, Bosch

Tunnelstraße 36B
10245 Berlin

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THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS Treptower Park Puschkinallee 12435 Berlin A picture of a group of poppies photographed in a park in, Berlin. My pictures are very dark because I underexpose them, then relight them with an off camera flash. The light falling on the red petals makes them look like silk or raw flesh. You can choose. I have named this picture after a poem by the american poet, Wendell Berry. “When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” Good, isn't it? Poetry. I wasn’t always calm enough to understand it. To my pleasure I have grown a taste for it. Now more than ever, in our new age of empires, I need to meditate on the words. What I would like any viewer to understand about my work is the following. * I make 90% of my work in Berlin Green Spaces. This topographical landscape has memory. It tells stories. I am a storyteller.  * I prefer to work "in camera" so there is minimal post processing on my pictures. These pictures are straight out of the camera. * They are all daytime pictures, underexposed to appear dark and relit with an off camera flash.  * Influenced consciously by 15th to 18th century European Painting but unconsciously, just about everything else.  * I am clearly stating, "Look what I would have missed if I wasn't looking" which feels one hundred times more authentic than the somewhat arrogant, “look at what everyone else is overlooking.”  Thank you for reading ALLES LIEBE AUS DEM BAUMHAUS

THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS

Treptower Park
Puschkinallee 27–29
12435 Berlin

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Alles liebe aus dem BaumHaus x

Coasting 26434 Wangerland (yes it is really called that) Lower Saxony A low light picture of sand grass on a small sand dune. Top to bottom, The sky is a deep blue, a benefit of the winter light. The grass is being blown from the right to left and the detail is picked out by my flash which gives the grass a metallic appearance . At the bottom of the composition the sand is a dark grey brown colour. It was cold to touch on this deep winter day on the North Sea coast of Germany. What I would like any viewer to understand about my work is the following. * I make 90% of my work in Berlin Green Spaces. This topographical landscape has memory. It tells stories. I am a storyteller.  * I prefer to work "in camera" so there is minimal post processing on my pictures. These pictures are straight out of the camera. * They are all daytime pictures, underexposed to appear dark and relit with an off camera flash.  * Influenced consciously by 15th to 18th century European Painting but unconsciously, just about everything else.  * I am clearly stating, "Look what I would have missed if I wasn't looking" which feels one hundred times more authentic than the somewhat arrogant, “look at what everyone else is overlooking.” 

Coasting

26434 Wangerland (yes)
Lower Saxony

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Blue. Blau. Bleu. Blu & Blah! 
 * I make 90% of my work in Berlin Green Spaces. This topographical landscape has memory. It tells stories. I am a storyteller.  * I prefer to work "in camera" so there is minimal post processing on my pictures. These pictures are straight out of the camera. * They are all daytime pictures, underexposed to appear dark and relit with an off camera flash.  * Influenced consciously by 15th to 18th century European Painting but unconsciously, just about everything else.  * I am clearly stating, "Look what I would have missed if I wasn't looking" which feels one hundred times more authentic than the somewhat arrogant, “look at what everyone else is overlooking.”  1700s Berlin is one of the world centres for Chemistry. Linked to the Royal Families passion for Alchemy, they employ chemists (alchemists) not just to pursue the race for base metals into Gold & Silver but for the challenge of Synthetic Blues. Synthetic Blue is first written about by the chemist Johann Jacob Diesbach in the early 1700s. The first factory produced Prussian also known as Berlin or Brandenburg Blue, is in the 1900 century but the French state that they invented it first. Blue is the most restful of the primary colours still. It is symbolised by the angelic or spiritual across all societies independent of faith constructs. Blue as part of the daylight colour scale is the result of the earliest form of photography now known as Cyanotype from the ancient Greek kyáneos 'dark blue' and τύπος, týpos 'mark. It was named this from the Shadows on the wall concept of Plato's allegory of the cave.

Blue. Blau. Bleu. Blu & Azur

Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8,
14195 Berlin

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Wintering: Part 1 Winter Cherry in Berlin Darklight 
Görlitzer Ufer 12435 Berlin

 A very dark picture of winter blossoming cherry, stretched out in front of the silhouette of a much larger tree. I found that the branches of the cherry sat like an overlay over the back ground details. The hint of pink from the blossom stands out nicely from the dark blue of the winter light. I love winter light. This is a good thing as I live in Berlin. This geographical truth equates to long hot summers, a short but beautiful autumn, very dark, dark winters and an explosive spring. This winter light is dominated by low cloud. Somewhere just above it the sun is shinning and this effects the back drop to my pictures. Marbling the clouds from the reverse side delivers a stunning textured back drop for my photography. In essence my photographic practice is this.  * I make 90% of my work in Berlin Green Spaces. This topographical landscape has memory. It tells stories. I am a storyteller.  * I prefer to work "in camera" so there is minimal post processing on my pictures. These pictures are straight out of the camera. * They are all daytime pictures, underexposed to appear dark and relit with an off camera flash.  * Influenced consciously by 15th to 18th century European Painting but unconsciously, just about everything else.  * I am clearly stating, "Look what I would have missed if I wasn't looking" which feels one hundred times more authentic than the somewhat arrogant, “look at what everyone else is overlooking.”  Making these pictures is something that makes me feel very happy. To me they are full of art historical references but this is far from obvious to the casual viewer. They are at their best when printed. Alles liebe aus dem BaumHaus

Kinder und Haushaltsmärchen (Das singende, klingende Bäumchen DEFA-Märchenfilm 1957) Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8, 14195 Berlin A winter picture. Dark with rich colours. The subject is of a little plant with silver seed pods that look like leaves. It is the silver seed pods of Lunaria annua, commonly known as honesty or annual honesty. I have relit the whole composition with a flash so the seed pods shine in the dark. Under the influence of the Brothers Grimm short story for children Das singende, klingende Bäumchen, which terrified me as a child, fascinated me as a teenager and perplexed me as an adult. Why on earth would you upset your children with the sole aim of comforting them afterwards? This interest in morality lessons led me to read a little more about the origins of these fables. To my surprise they are a lot more international than I knew at the time. Now I understand that stories flow along the trade routes like any other precious article. This photograph is underexposed and then relit with an off camera flash. The whole effect is theatrical, it makes the subject look other worldly. This technique is based on what others refer to as Day for Night. That if you are interested in such things, this is the method but my aim is to see our shared environment in a way that I find beautiful and moving. I am as inspired by western art, in particular painting from the 16th to the 18th century. This is as a result of working as a lecturer for the National Gallery for over 27 years. I can never unlearn what I know and this joy for knowledge and art history is at the beating heart of my photography. I feel my pictures are pretty hard to define but are at their best when printed. They need time, they need a certain amount of art historical knowledge. This makes it quite tricky for myself when it comes to definition. Typical me. On the plus side, they are very beautiful so for many viewers it can rest at that. 

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A Christmas Themed Romantic Comedy. Treptower Park 12435 Berlin A miniature variety Silver Birch Tree photographed in the last light of the day, relit with an off camera flash. The sky behind the tree is a deep blue fading into purple and a hint of pink beyond the confusion of branches and foliage. A few leaves hold to the trailing branches and look like coins in the light from the flash. The flash also picks out the crinkled texture of the trunk and branches that make a type of green and silver camouflage print. I love winter light. This is a good thing as I live in Berlin. This geographical truth equates to long hot summers, a short but beautiful autumn, very dark, dark winters and an explosive spring. This winter light is dominated by low cloud. Somewhere just above it the sun is shinning and this effects the back drop to my pictures. Marbling the clouds from the reverse side delivers a stunning textured back drop for my photography. In essence my photographic practice is this.  * I make 90% of my work in Berlin Green Spaces. This topographical landscape has memory. It tells stories. I am a storyteller.  * I prefer to work "in camera" so there is minimal post processing on my pictures. These pictures are straight out of the camera. * They are all daytime pictures, underexposed to appear dark and relit with an off camera flash.  * Influenced consciously by 15th to 18th century European Painting but unconsciously, just about everything else.  * I am clearly stating, "Look what I would have missed if I wasn't looking" which feels one hundred times more authentic than the somewhat arrogant, “look at what everyone else is overlooking.”  Making these pictures is something that makes me feel very happy. To me they are full of art historical references but this is far from obvious to the casual viewer. They are at their best when printed. Alles liebe aus dem BaumHaus

Wintering: Part 1, 2 & 3

Berlin Winter Dark Light

1. Winterings. Görlitzer Ufer
2. Kinder und Haushaltsmärchen
3. Christmas Themed Romantic Comedy. Treptower Park

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This could not be improved on

You should give it a go? It is very straight forward

Bless you for that. I do alright out of it. I exhibit all over the shop and have had a good amount of support over the decade I have been doing it. I am not claiming any originality, it's a very old technique based loosely on American Night

Thank you Ted. The light behind the clouds was worth waiting for and I have an off camera flash, mounted on a telescopic boom. Small but powerful. I have had to learn to dial it back quite a lot. ƒ/16 @1/500 (ISO:100) does the rest