archive for September, 2008
NEW FEATURE : watch us traveling
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.
feel the vibe from here to asia - dip trip flip fantasia
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 ?!
The Yellow Day
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.
21 new pics
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.
punch buggy ’schulz’, no punch back
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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back and forward, but more forward & published for the first time.
Hello to all the people who read my entries about life, love and photography. I am back in Seattle and with my girlfriend Shawnee. So last time I have been in Seattle i was gay, now I am straight again. haha, nature. I am trying to work on photography reports, but also try to join my first competition (sorry, its in German). I think its definitely time to get into it. My thought is getting a job in Germany before I arrive. Well, I know what you think, but at least I can try.
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I got published in a magazine called MAP as I told you, so here are the single shots, if you wanna see them: Basically I wanted to show that a class society in China is rising, especially in big cities like Shanghai, Nanjing, Beijing and other big cities. Even though the thought of everybody is equal exists in most minds of Chinese people, the future in China looks different. Influenced more and more by western society, its very interesting to observe how those two different cultures are getting along with each other.
01. david
Since English is a must for every child to learn in more developed parts in China, everybody goes to an English class. David, the boy with the basketball, was one of my students and wants to become a professor for chemistry.
02. neighbors
These two Ladies are neighbors in an old neighborhood in south of Nanjing. They hope to stay longer in their homes since the major of Nanjing decides to pull the houses down to build new apartments. This process of resettle people actually happens a lot in China. Especially in big cities.
03. students
Since education is very important and young people have to study hard, I went to the university of Nanjing to photograph the living space of students. Four to eight people live in dormitories together and share kitchen, bathroom, sleeping room and a room to study.
04. dentist
Since their is not only a middle and and a lower class in Nanjing, I went to visit David Lue, a dentist in Nanjing who was born and raised in Nanjing. He is definitely one of the upper class and enjoys a convenient life. Not to forget that he worked really hard to be there where he is right now.
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Well, thanks for showing interest in those things and I hope you have a good day and wonderful night. Enjoy yourself.
Florian, xxx