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Reality is soo over-rated

I love to take pictures. I guess it has to do with my fear of forgetting things, events and people.
I started to photograph at age 10. My instruments chronologically: Olympus Trip, Nikon Nikkormat, Nikon F3, Yashica T5 (all analogous), Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 (my first digital, you know, the one with the floppy disks), Pentax Optio S4 (great camera: small, reasonable quality and outstanding super macro) a Nikon D70S, a Ricoh Caplio GX100 (small and handy, ugly but excellent),a Nikon D300 and recently a Nikon D700. I mostly use the 24-70 (2.8!) zoom.

For many years I worked in black and white. Now I use colours and photoshop a lot. I love digital photography!
For a long time I was convinced that photography should stay as close as possible to reality, but as David Hockney rightfully pointed out, photography is "a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?". Manipulating pictures can make art out of photography. A picture is not a representation of reality, it's a representation of what you see and perceive.

All my photos are copyright protected. If you're interested in one, please contact me.

I have gathered some of my best photos in two books. Please feel free to order a copy ;-)

Ãber-spesh By Maerten Prins Book Preview





Peripheral Vision By Maerten Prins Book Preview



Oh, and if you fave one of my photos and/or add me as a contact and/or have that stupid grey standard-icon and/or you don't share any photos of your own, I will block you. Nothing personal.

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