week 11 | 2012
I like photography unexpected and unplanned. I try to photograph free and unrestrained by predefined projects. It is what I prefer to do. The unexpectancy takes me to moments I would otherwise not notice. For instance take the last day of this week. We wanted to photograph in the Dutch harbor city Rotterdam, but due to railway problems we ended up celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in an Irish pub in Amsterdam.
And I know quite some people ask me how I can persist continuing photographing each and every day. Sometimes I really don’t know. At such moments it almost feels like an automated process, but very often I just really enjoy the flow of recognizing something interesting. Most importantly though I feel the end results becomes less relevant. It just really takes me away from some of the daily stress. Just 15 minutes, often even less. And just a moment without worries, a moment to recharge. Every day can be a challenge and I certainly don’t want to turn my passion into a stressful process either.
And on a side note. In between all the gear oriented websites I currently mostly look forward to the weekly Digest updates by LPV Magazine. It is one of the best regular photographic reads in my opinion. It for instance takes you this wonderful and sometimes even hilarious series “Maddie the Coonhound“.
All photographs by Wouter Brandsma
Love the last photo, it’s like a dream. And you were right about Maddie, great photos and many made me laugh.
Maddie’s photographs are most certainly hilarious. And I realize too that my dog can really not persist at such posting.
Excellent! I like your ideas! Such an inspiration!
Thank you, Inge. Most if the things I photograph, are stuff I just briefly noticed.
Whoa dude! These are some crazy good shots! The 1st is a real eye grabber but the last one is incredible! My kinda shot. I love following your work, you’re a real inspiration.
Welcome, Paul. I feel humbled by your comment. Thank you.
Another inspiring post! Thanks for persisting with the weekly project, it helps me in persisting for my weekly project too.
You guys certainly help me persist. Always be curious how something you see looks photographed.
A moment to recharge … I know that feeling all too well, Wouter. My job takes me running down a lot of highways. And I love that moment when I park the car somewhere to pause & smoke a cigaretee while looking onto some boring German countryside with nothing but slighty rolling hills & some power lines crossing. The moment I like to capture, the frame I took. Nothing exciting but something that just feels good.
And by the way, Sunday, Friday & Saturday are amazing. Three highlights of my past week.
All the best & safe travels, Fritsch.
That is it, it just feels good to press the shutter.
The last picture is beyond stunning.
(BTW, due to some silly WP.com changes, I cannot use my real email address to comment on WordPress blogs. So I had to use a fake one).
I don’t know, but there are some changes happening at WP.com. Most noticeably in the CMS dashboard.
But thank you anyway. I kind of like that last photograph too.
My favorite sunday ‘read’ – the first and second last image are wonderful, as in having some sort of third eye quality
Thank you, Katrien.
The last image is killer good, one of the finest street shots I’ve ever seen.
And I still think I was a split second too late. I wanted to have the couple just a bit left of the mirror.
your photography is like life itself, always new, always amazing, always full of expectation, thanks for let us know your surrounding world.
Thank you so much. Life brings and and life takes, yet it still is full of the unexpected.
I love your photo series, Wouter, they always have fresh, new and unexpected things – you certainly have imagination! Here, the top four get to me, probably the tree with the red and white markings most of all. The top one is really quite surreal. I like your style! Adrian
I try not to travel to be imaginative Andrian. For me it makes sense to stay close to home.