CV
Semantic
On Art and Photography
Photography is possibly the only way I feel comfortable expressing myself artistically. I can certainly write, somewhat, but drawing, dance, woodwork, and the likes have never been my strong points. As a photographer, I am a happy mediocre amateur at best, a complete clutz at worst, and on this page I publish the least bad of my work. I also admittedly have an enormous backlog of pictures to develop digitally, some of which may one day make it onto this page.
When developing photos, I try to stay as true as possible to the picture and have a fairly simple workflow: crop, straighten, remove dust, tune global options such as blacks and saturation, export, done. It is not that I think that this makes the pictures more “real”, but it offers me a workflow that forces me to go out and take pictures, rather than re-touch the ones I have. Long gone are the days when I felt sad about “missed” shots, good riddance, it took far too many years to reach this state of mind.
If you like a picture and want to use it, they are available under a liberal license. I also have high-resolution versions that I am happy to give you, just send me an e-mail.