flowers and canines

In 2007 I only had a very rough idea what I wanted to photograph. But I knew I wanted to hold and use a camera. And this helped me through a lot of frustrations. The more I knew what I wanted to photograph, the less the results looked anything like what I envisioned. I switched equipment quite a few times, thinking it was the gear. Or the boring place I live in.

Of course it was neither. Back then I wanted to post every day. Going through my archives year by year today, I can still feel the echoes of these frustrations. But today I'm happy to see a hand full of images I really like in one year. And from the distance both in time and emotionally I can clearly see the progress.

It is interesting however, even though my current journey has just began, I can already see the parallels to my first years with photography. Maybe I would describe my photography journey as trying to make the invisible visible. Will I be able to make the inaudible audible?

I started to learn piano using an App to overcome the isolation during the pandemic. After things went back to normal more or less, I mostly forgot about it and gave the piano away. On Christmas last year it found its way back to me. I didn't want to sell it and figured I had to do something with it. That escalated quickly ...

Today I know I want to touch the keys of a synthesizer and translate my emotions into electronic music. I don't know yet what kind of music that's going to be but I have some rough ideas. I already own three different keyboards without knowing how to play them properly. I'm taking piano lessons. I can feel progress, but it's so darn slow and the frustrations are big.