Calinago's photostream  

Guten Tag, Hello and Welcome, Bienvenidos!

Thank you for visiting my profile. I hope you enjoy my pictures and some little videos.
I am sharing my photos here for quite a while now and I really appreciate the inspiration I get from flickr. I also like to see all those wonderful photos and other creations here. Flickr is a real good place to meet creative photographers from all over the world!

My emphasis is changing with time, but I have three main focus points: portraits, journalist photography and fine art photography like "Readymade Paintings", "Reflections" and "Décollages", which have become my special art of discovery and reflection. The décollages are opening a new level of fine art photography, because they are telling stories about photography, about what happens to the printed results of advertising photography in the urban environment.
They tell us about time and decay - and also the beauty of decay... Normally these destroyed wallpapers are not perceived as pictures any more, but only as something destroyed, spoiled, broken, wasted, uninteresting, rather disturbing the clean image of the city.

I love people, that is why I love portraits.

I love music and I usually don’t go to a concert without a camera. Somehow music is a way to open up and let the spirit in... music touches you deep inside...
somehow I want to touch people with my photography, open their heart for something different, a new experience, share the joy I feel when I see a beautiful woman, or when I look into the eyes of a blue eyed dog or perceive the beauty of a shadow of a rusty nail falling on a step...

Your comments are welcome.

Please, don’t send comments with AWARDS or any other graphics or blinking pictures. Those comments will be deleted.

My photographs and videos are presented here for viewing purposes only. Most of them are NOT royalty free and may not be used for any commercial nor private use without my express permission.

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The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value. - W. Eugene Smith

"Das Schönste, was wir erleben können, ist das Geheimnisvolle. Wer es nicht kennt
und sich nicht mehr wundern kann, der ist sozusagen tot und sein Auge ist erloschen."

Albert Einstein

"Beauty can be seen in all things. Seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph."

Matt Hardy

"It needs great art, learning to play with one’s own life, to play on one’s own life. Meditation is the art to create music from your heart. Meditation is simply the method to transform noise into harmony, the method to shift your consciousness from the head to the heart. The head is noisy, it is all noise — a tale told by an idiot, full of fury and noise, signifying nothing."

“Love is so silent that it never asserts itself, it simply accepts whatsoever is the case. It keeps quiet.”

OSHO