MEET ME IN AUTUMN AND I WILL BE MORE BEAUTIFUL

A photograph is like a stage in a theater.

Once the curtain has fallen the spectator's eyes wander from side to side and from top to bottom to take in all the elements.The light, perspective and the colors. If your stage setting is right the spectator will stay with you and admire it over and over again.

Beautiful cameras and equipment are available today- hi -tech solutions for all photographic ambitions.

But I think to take a captivating photograph that resonates not only with yourself but with others as well you have to know what you want to see before taking the shot.

It has to be natural and to me it feels like the picture has to be first in your soul. What you have inside you, you see in the outside world. Then you know it is a match and that beautiful exceptional shot that no one can explain is created.

   

THE HEART OF THE MATTER

LIKE A PAINTER 'S PALETTE

I eat, drink and live color. I feed on it like a parasite. It is my daily bread. I crave color.

It adds the spice to my life that I need.

The painter' palette is what I call the Copperleaf or FIJIAN FIRE bush. When you drive through South-Africans cities you can see this bush crowning many gardens. It is one of the most popular species grown in South-Africa. 

The leaves are mottled orange, red and pink.

Slightly shaped like a heart, brown leaves with contrasting rose-pink markings.
Or reddish leaves with slightly paler markings.

And come closer now please. 

Still Closer. 

Every pattern and color combination that has been designed and then printed on silk, cotton, linen or any  fabric has been created by nature before. 

There is no greater artist than nature.