Another picture from Denmarks coast line. Check the landscape section on my website. Maybe some people realized already, that my memory is not the best. Therefore I don’t know if I told you the story about the printer dude who told me once he saw my forest pictures back in winter time, that to take pictures in the forest isn’t the most easy thing in life. In other words, those pictures look more like a 2nd semester student art project instead of professional photographs. Maybe the color makes it. Maybe not. I am still ambitious to become the best forest photographer the world never seen before. Good evening.

A short trip to Denmark was definitely nice and by the way my first time to visit the country which is so close. Denmark is landscape wise beautiful, but the most stunning thing I saw were the colors of sunsets, sunrises and the water. With long exposure times I got the results I wanted to have: See in the picture what you feel. Click the picture to see all 3 horizons.

The last two days happened something again. The big German coffee company decided not to book me as a photographer since they don’t have ‘enough’ money to afford a photographer at all. So still no job but at least I got the internship with DPA and am allowed to follow a photo journalist in the first week and probably work on my own in the second week. Well, that’s pretty cool. Additionally I visited my old agency GGH in Hamburg I used to work for before I left to travel. One of the leader dudes connected me to a very well known German photographer. I don’t have any experience in assisting, so I keep my expectations to get a chance low. Lets see. In case we get along and he’d give me a chance: Awesome awesome awesome. OK, time to calm down again. So I am at the beginning again and its a every day fight to follow the path of making money with photography. The only thing I have for sure is the DPA thing. I want to travel less and stay more in Hamburg. Therefore I can’t photograph glowing vulcanos or lonely trees at the end of China. My escape is right behind the house I am living in. Tonight I went out again to take pictures and unfortunately it didn’t turned out to be as stormy as I thought.

A month later and many things happened. First, I want to write more for myself again. My travel time is over and less and less people are interested in reading my blog anyways. So its gonna be interesting for me to write and read a year later again. Since i am back from my holiday (relationship vacation and photography week) I didn’t have much to do and basically tried to recover from my jet lag. Nevertheless I took some pictures back home: the first four pictures on pflock.com in the landscape section. Until Wednesday last week nothing really happened until finally a request for a beer brand from Leo Burnett Mexico came. Exciting, Exciting. I never was so busy and stressed out and happy the last 2 years. In just a couple of days I contacted people I need to get infos from such as photographers, representive agencies, friends, Art buyers and Production team. Within two days I learned so much about the business and how organization works, that I feel way more prepared for the next one. And .. there we go, after I got the call that the project is not going to happen, the next request came in for another shoot. The following Monday I have an interview at DPA and look forward to it indeed. Nothing really changes, but something is happening, and its great.

The weekend I spent in Freiburg at my little brothers house to take pictures of him and his band. www.pflock.com/studio.

Actually the shoot was organized to photograph the cover for their first album Break the storms. Fun for sure. Unfortunately they don’t have a site on myspace.com yet, so you could some of their stuff. Awesome, for a bunch of thirteen years old kids.

Since I moved here to this house and noticed one day the falcon in the neighbors garden, I ran out with my camera and hoped I can take a picture before he’s gone. He still sits there. The neighbor attached his leg with a string to the roof house he is sitting on. Both sides of the roof are totally white of bird shit and tells me that the falcon is sitting there already since a while. I’m sure the falcon wants to and needs to fly and didn’t think of a life sitting on a roof all day and night long. its sits and sits and sits. Both of his wings seem to work. When he spreads out his wings to turn around, I can see that he is able to fly. I am not an expert. I just know he can. The longer the falcon sits on this roof, the more I feel angry about the guy who keeps him away from flying. My thoughts to free the falcon become bigger and bigger. BUT, and that’s where the dilemma starts:

The falcon doesn’t belong to me, its probably the property of this neighbor and the neighbor let the bird fly when its time to let the bird fly, because its a special falcon. He also might have payed thousands of euros to get the bird and now trains him. Maybe he is a veteran and keeps the bird until his broken wings are good enough again, so it can be on his own again.

However you want to this, I can’t force myself to talk to the guy and ask him about his falcon. Why? That’s probably what I need to figure out. I usually don’t feel that emotionally with animals, but this falcon doesn’t seem to be a usually bird. Today I suddenly thought of the falcon as a metaphor to my own situation I am in. I am able to fly but something stops me from using my wings. The falcon can move only in two directions. North and South, and mostly its looking south. I can move wherever I want, but I know I would just keep on trying to escape from myself. So either the falcon is what I am and what to happen to him, happens to me right now, or the falcon shows me how free I actually am, but still lock myself up in thoughts and doubts.

I’ll watch the falcon and find out about it.