Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. People go swimming in the Müggelsee lakes, they come down from the centre of Berlin to spend a relaxing day on the grassy banks. I planned to take a few photos around the lake. That didn’t […]
Black & White Woodland Photography
Seven Black & White Photos of a Forest landscape in Berlin. Landscape photography is challenging — especially if you’ve spent a lot of time in a city environment, and been working on your street photography more often than looking at trees, and fields, and lakes. I live in Berlin. It’s a great city, the architecture […]
How to Photograph What Touches Your Heart
Photography is an exciting activity. Mostly for the person behind the camera, but we hope it will turn out to be an enjoyable and thoughtful moment for the person who looks at the photos. I live in the city. But I often have the urge to take landscape photos, so I travel to the nearby […]
Black & White Woodland Photography in Berlin’s Forests
Seven Black & White Photos of a Forest landscape in Berlin. Landscape photography is challenging – especially if you’ve spent a lot of time in a city environment, and been working on your street photography more often than looking at trees, and fields, and lakes. I live in Berlin. It’s a great city, the architecture […]
Write for the Masses- but be Specific About It
Iris Murdoch said that good art, whatever its style, has the qualities of hardness, firmness, detachment, realism, clarity, justice, and truth. She also went on to mention that the above can only be the product of a mind that is free, unfettered, with an uncorrupted imagination. In all, that’s one statement. Often, when we look at […]
How Your Fictional Story Ideas Always Come with a Dark Horse
Characters always have something to say. You just have to keep your ears open. A story can be a sweet thing that grows in the mind. It becomes colourful, and active. If you ignore the work of actual writing, it’ll become a nagging beast that will finally start to bite and nip at your heels. It’s […]
How Hard is it to Become a Successful Writer?
“How hard is it to become a successful writer?”, is a common question. The answer is simple. Firstly, I think it’s a question posed in a very general way, which makes it hard to define really what a person means when they ask this question. “How hard is to…”, is a common question from people […]
Dark Stories from Between the Cracks of Time — Part II
I heard a very low humming sound coming from inside somebody’s pocket. One of the two men sitting at the table behind me pulled out his phone and clicked a button. The phone stopped ringing. The man standing at the toilet door put his phone away and walked towards the bar. He stopped next to […]