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Fotograf trotz Schicksalschlag

• My root in Photography is based in my years as teenager.
  
  
• I started taking pictures, with low-cost cameras.

• My first SLR, I could afford  in the age of about 25 years. in the 1980ies
  

• SLR= Single-lens reflex camera

• where the big manufacturers started with autofocus

• at that point of time, the technical  solution from Canon,  transmitting the necessary Data from the Camera body to the lens electronically, was simply the best. Other brands had the solution to transmit Data with a mechanical axis.
  
  
• That was the reason why I started with Canon.
  
  
• Today from the technical point of  view, I believe it doesn't matter what Brand you photograph with.
  
  
• Most important is  the ergonomic aspect and what Genres you photograph

• Because of focusing on Work, photography then slept for long
  time.
  
  
• Until about 3 years after my stroke

• Where the left side of the Body  was completly paralysed!

• my brain had forgotten that there is a left side of the body!

• I experienced the stroke during the night from Dec. 24th to 25th 2008.

• The Dec.24th I went to bead in good health and sometime, early in the morning the 25th I woke up, left half side paralysed!

• it took long long time to get back on my feet and move more or less correctly.
  
  
• I had the feeling that I should  do some creative activity; what could it be?
  
  
• Photography? With a serious handicap??!
  
  
• I activated what I already knew: Photography!

• sometime, about 3 years after the stroke, in 2011

• I applied for a one year education in photography which I finished succsessfully, even with my severe handicap.

As my claim sais: Keeping magic moments!  For "eternity":

that means keeping a specific Moment in a Fraction of a Second!