eyes like a shutter, mind like a lens

eyes like a shutter, mind like a lens...

Not a day goes by without photography.
Whether with the camera or my iPhone.

I have been taking photographs for more than 30 years, and not only during holidays, mainly family pictures, but also interior photography, street photography and occasionally portraits.

I was a Flickr member long before the Instagram era. Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.

Sometimes I miss the time, when we took pictures and had to wait a few days until the film roll was developed. With only 24 shots, sometimes 36.

On the attic we have a hundred photo albums, with analog photos.

Needles to say, we took more photos, since we got our first digital camera, but fewer were printed.

Later on we joined Flickr and used it as a cloud and backup for our digital photos, and we still do.

Since 2007 we have been making an anual photo yearbook, with a selection of 150 full-page photos.

I never call myself a photographer, however I often 'observe' and the image seems a photo, that simply has to be captured...

captivating corner

While I am washing my hands, my eye catches the natural colors of the simple utensils and the light, in the corner of the sink.

I'm very visual and can be overwhelmed by a feeling of bliss all of a sudden, by the appeal of 'something simple'.

Our kitchen, an easy, real life space with stuff collected over time.
Kitchen utensils with functionality and personality;
The simplicity of two cutting boards against the kitchen wall.
A small twig, in a soda bottle, because it was just too small to join the magnolia bouquet.
and the shades of the tiles, which seem to change every moment of the day...

and I realise, I'm glad to enjoy the simple things.
(even though it is sometimes exhausting to see 'everything' and to capture the moment afterwards with my camera, haha..)