Playing Dead

Nothing serious, he just fell over when he saw me coming and played dead for a while.

A Dead Warrior Under A Bright Sun

In photography there are two ways of shooting a good picture.

The first is to be aware and present in the moment and not to hesitate to capture the "decisive moment".

The second way is the way of patience and careful preparation.

The angle is one of the most important factors. From which level are you looking at your object?  Same level, from below, above or behind, or from the side. Everything changes as soon as you move. It determines the composition of the whole picture

The light gives it the final finish. Suede, soft, crisp, elusive, evasive, sharp, in contrast......... The light allows you to add feeling to your picture. So wait for the light you want. See it first on the inside, perceive it in you and then wait for the conditions to arrive.

Gadgets, lenses and filters are the least important of all.

A Love For Pattern

Eye To Eye

Praying Mantis, eyeing me out! From behind the couch!

 From the curtain rail 

Curtain Crawler

Crawling my curtain since roughly 72 hours with no intention whatsoever to stop!

The Longest Lashes

Chocolat Negro Photography

The Butterfly Memorial

Flight Into Paradise

nearly there........ 

Buona Sera Signorina

Buona Sera Signorina,

Buona Sera,

Where are you going signorina ?

Not knowing ?

where you going signorina ?

Well, then good night and buona sera pretty signorina

A POLKA DOT DRESS

There was this super cool beetle moving along in my garden.

wearing a high end fashion yellow polka dotted Designer dress

 

on the way to the catwalk he got entangled  in all sorts of stuff

but I want to make a dress like that. Simply have to!

FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS

Three fine young cannibals eating a moth. 

The Cleaners

Ants are making a common effort to carry a maggot up my pink wall, which they have found under the trash bin.

True Green

After a very unusual rainy and stormy beginning of summer

The most amazing creatures can be found outside in the garden

like this green moth camouflaged as a green leaf in decay 

Green is the color of my true love getting comfortable on my finger
and making my skin itchy.

The House Is Empty Now

Since a couple of years African wasps return every year to build their nest in my beach-cupboard, an old white painted cupboard on the veranda, used to store shells, drift wood and other beach finds waiting to find new existence and meaning of life in jewelry or other art objects.  

When the larvae have left, that have been protected by an amazing mud structure hanging on one arm until their day of freedom and maturity has come, they leave the most beautiful piece of architecture behind.

SAY YOUR WISH

If your wish is your true desire it will come to you. 

I said my wish silently that a beautiful butterfly might want to rest for a while in front of me.

My deep wish was to see it completely fearless and feeling safe close to me.

I asked and prayed so nice that it must not move

for me to see the hair and color on its velvet wings

I asked and prayed real nicely for some days

that it might slowly unfold and close its wings.

Because for me that signifies true magic

I asked and prayed so intensely

that it would not move so that I could lay next to it 

for me to see his big eyes

My wish was to see a completely different form of life feeling free and careless next to me. 

FOUR LEGGED SPIDER

I don't know exactly how many legs are missing - at least three. But it's still going strong and fast.

SHELTER ME

Everybody needs someone to shelter him. 

From the hot African sun or from a cold winter.

From hunger and pain. Be it physical or emotional.

From loneliness or excess.

From Ignorance and Arrogance. 

From People.

From life.

 Shelter can be found under a leaf, in a country,with people or in somebody's heart.

 But it is there. 

A HOUSE OF SILK

To build yourself a house of silk, hang it in the trees and adorn it with dew drops is the birth right of long legged, light built creatures. How I would like to do that.!

The unbearable lightness of just hanging somewhere is entirely their's. 

This beauty was crowning the ceiling of my bedroom and after having taken lots of portraits of her lightness she gave me a decent shiver when deciding out of a sudden to let herself fall down and land next to me on the bed. The reason is only known to her.

I LOVE YOUR HONEY

OH YES I DO !!

PRAYING MANTIS

I had a special pet for many weeks, a praying Mantis residing on the outside of my kitchen wall most of time.
Until she lost part of her right back leg. This is the last picture of her in movement climbing up the wall with three and a half legs.True the kitchen wall does not like kitchen walls should look like.... clean and neat. Nope.