after all these years……

[silverbullet]

Thank you. I love the elephant sculpture.

Thank you.

This elephant is located in Nantes, France. An old shipyard with artifical animals and flowers. The elephant is huge, more than 45 people can be placed inside and above. A real giant.

http://www.lesmachines-nantes.fr/en/machines-de-l-ile/the-grand-elephant/

At the left side of my pic you can see a brass barrel of an collodium wetplate camera.

 

[D&A]

Very Inspirational. Talents such as a good photographic eye never really die. They sometimes get stale from inactivity but once woken up, the creative juices get flowing again. This is very evident in your various series of images. Astute observation of human behavor is quite evident in many of your pictures ans thats one of the reasons they have such appeal. Thanks for sharing both your story and images.

Dave (D&A)

 

[silverbullet]

Thanks you very much for your kind words!

 

[zuikologist]

Lovely story. Keep shooting now and don't stop!

Your son is also certainly talented. Great stuff.

QUOTE=silverbullet;2483948]"You HAD talent" 🙁 no worries….

Photography for me as not 'to get images printed' at these times. It was drifting and messing with friends or on my own and my camera. Just a hobby, but in 1973 I stood for the first time on a windsurfer. My Hobie 14 collected more and more dust because the windsurfer was so much less hassle. No trailer, no place to store and…..the crazy feeling later like monoski and fast planing. Together with my girl friend (todays wife) we visited so many places for competitions all over Europe in our VW Bulli
Suddenly I was married😀, the children arrived and the job at JVC and TDK left no free brain for creating nice photographs. Restart as written above.

My younger son received some kind of DNA…..I think:

http://philippbanken.blogspot.de

All the best and may the Light be with You! 😉
Bernd[/QUOTE]

 

[silverbullet]

Thanks! 🙂