Since I have been to the states and had a break from Asia, I decided to be a little more tough regarding the way I take pictures. I always wanted to take more pictures of people and less landscape.

I would say landscape works for me now, I know when to shoot and where to move my camera to get some great stuff out of it. But in the end its not really satisfying. Right, I don’t really want to do those pictures. Now I am back in Asia and I will work on this. Shoot way more people instead of landscape. Its so much harder to go really close to people, to deal with a situation and create a composition every second from scratch, something which is moving all the time. I know it has to work. So, today I started to take pictures of people and yes, its so much fun. I want to reach a level in people photography as I reached in landscape and I have 3 month to go. gogogo.

I also don’t want to take so much more attention on composition and sharpness in the picture. I know on one hand its important but on the other hand you are missing so many opportunities to shoot if you care about those facts all the time. More courage, more people and therefore more the way of capture a moment instead of a mood. Thanks for sharing.

Oh, one more thing: More Color, yes. I am finally sick of sick colors.

Back to China and now with a new video supporting camera from Katja. That’s why you can see Katja and me taped on video in future from time to time to report from beautiful or crazy or both places. I think that’s pretty awesome. Unfortunately I do not have a video blog, so you need to be happy with downloading them. Enjoy Katja and Myself in their first video production in Longji, the famous rice terraces in Guangxi province. I am so vain, I can’t believe I am putting this stuff online. anyways. The pictures I took around this area are posted on flickr.com/pflock as usual.

hello people. i am so happy because I had a great time with my girlfriend Shawnee in Seattle. I am back to Asia and feels like .. yeah. back to real world and I wasn’t excited to travel anymore until I arrived here, tried my update in Chinese my girlfriend installed in my brain, and went out for watching the Typhoon, stroking over Hong Kong. I am not traveling alone anymore which is kinda good. A little weird though to slow down my pace in walking and stand still when somebody else wants to see something for a little longer. My new travel companion is my old friend Katja from university in germany. After she proudly left the world of slavery in Germany she is enjoying herself pretty much.

I am so pervert. I want to speak kinda like fluent Chinese when I am done with traveling through China. hahaha. Yes, pervert. Anyways, I am doing my best.

Today I had a really great talk already in a little restaurant with some people. And even the Chinese with a dialect people in Hong Kong speak was understand by me. YESSS. Thanks to Shawnee. Wo de laoshi.

So. I am happy I wrote this update. i just thought about that its kinda long time ago I wrote about my feelings and all my stuff. But most of the times its not really positive thoughts I wrote down here in my blog. So, since my thoughts are really positive since a while, there is no need to write about feelings. haha easy, right ?!

Since I get more & more about my style, finally some people might think now, I am more encouraged to play again, what feels really great. Just point and shoot, without any thinking, without any composition and without taking care of the light situation. And since I bought a couple of new filters for my 28mm f1.8 lense, I took the crazy yellow one and went for a walk. So none of those images are photoshopped. Real colors im my yellow pictures on my Yellow Day.

The pictures aren’t mind blowing, just want to share some yellow.

please feel free to click this wonderful link to have a look to some pictures I took in the past, but never uploaded. Still couldn’t find what I am searching for here in Seattle. Maybe thats why I need to upload some stuff from the past.

Since coming to the States, I do not feel any inspiration to take pictures. Everything is too clean, too perfect and too done. Maybe its just my eyes and my mind, not be able to see the mistakes in all this. Or maybe its me again, want to understand something in a time which is too short to understand.

The question is the following: Does a photographer need to be able to shoot everywhere in this world or can he claim to be inspired only by certain places? The answer seems to be there already. Speaking of inspiration shows already that the photographer, in this case, I, is more likely an artist instead of a photographer. The fact that I don’t want to be an artist doesn’t help in this case. I have to deal with it.

The following pictures show my boredom of my style and my aggression towards making something different out of my pictures. Enjoy or don’t. I don’t care these days.
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