It is so wonderful to walk on the beach with bare feet. The sand runs through your toes, small stones massage the balls of your feet and it's fun to walk through the soft, perhaps slightly muddy seagrass, with a certain smell of the sea in your nose. And then there are those fantastically large erratic boulders on the beach, placed decades or even centuries ago by the melting ice of the last ice age. They came from Scandinavia and rested in such a cliff face until the elements of erosion presented them to us on the beach.
I have created a photograph with the aura of tranquillity. Man sees his life cycle and sees the natural periods of life and decay on earth. I would capture this atmosphere on a canvas, perhaps with a white shadow gap frame. The dimensions of the picture are relative. I recommend a picture size of 120 x 80, placed in a cosy bedroom and indirectly lit.
Holger Felix, born 1959, photographer from Wismar, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. I have been taking pictures since I was seven years old. I started with a simple roll film camera in b/w, model Pouva Start from 1952. In my late youth I got my first analog SLR camera. Today.. Read more…