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"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst", Henri Cartier-Bresson once said. The completion of perfection can only be done by constant practice, trial and error, experimenting; slowly, steadily, step by step. And if photography is actually 'the art of showing more than you see', then that learning-process may bear one of those rare moments when the material world and the realm of ideas seems to marry.
The material world - these are the subjects around us, nature, people, artifacts; the external conditions, weather, light, color; the mastery of the equipment, focal distance, exposure, focus - and the ideas: imagination, aesthetic perception, emotions.
And yet we will not wait until we can publish the 10,001st photograph. Even the effort sometimes bears fruits that are, in closer inspection, considered ripe enough to be enjoyed. These are the results of the experiment of continual perfection. Enjoy the photographs, and visit this site again from time to time to see what's new ...
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