Some things in life seem to be good for us - but they aren't.
Next time when you go to downtown of your city: switch off your phone!
"WHAT????? Are you crazy? No phone?"
Horrible thought, right?
Try it, just 20 minutes. Can you do that?
And observe. How many people are on their phones?
F...ing everybody! Slavery does still exists.
Zombies!
Far from being present and enjoying the moment.
What a waste of valuable life time. WASTE!
And it already starts in the morning.
First thing people do when they are slowly waking up: phone.
What is the last thing people do before falling asleep?
Of course a phone is a necessary tool and it is great for communication.
But all day - from start to finish?
You know what inspired me to write that article?
I went through my photos I shot in Zurich, Switzerland.
ALMOST in all of them people where on their phone!
CRAZY!
I am one of the zombies, too.
If I am not with my camera, I am a zombie, too.
NOT ANYMORE!
I am human being not a zombie.
I want to experience the present.
HOW?
You know how.
Are you a strong believer that everything is a coincidence?
If you, are: be warned - this story could change your mind.
Rita and I went to a road trip and stopped in one of my most favorite places in the world: Death Valley in California.
Before the trip, Rita just finished a theater play: “Venus in Fur” (also a movie).
This information is important for the crazy story!
In the beginning of the play, Wanda (played by Rita) is going to an audition.
It is raining like crazy outside and she knocks at the door.
When the director opened the door, she says her name: Wanda.
Ok, back now to our story.
We were at the motel and I decided to get some candy and diet coke from the gas station.
It was a hot and dry day at the hottest place in the world.
I went to the gas station and took 2 diet coke bottles, one for Rita and one for me.
In the past there were some random names on the bottles. I did not look at the names.
I have been at least 10 times at this desert. Never have I experience rain.
But when I left the gas station, it started raining like crazy.
It was a short walk from the gas station to the motel, but I was soaked, like I jumped into a river.
I knocked at the door, Rita opened and I gave her one of the bottles and read the name on it: Wanda.
Rita got big eyes and seemed like she saw a ghost!
I went inside and she explained me the story and her character she just played back home.
We kept on talking about this experience for many hours.
And even if it happened years ago, we are still in awe what happened in the desert.
I believe that there are coincidences, but what happened is just unexplainable.
A wonderful story about that there are things in life, which we can’t explain.
We can just be touched by them & be grateful that they happen to us.
Are you having a bad day?
Remember the past! There are many situations where the bad was good for something!
Sometimes we don't realize it. Not in the moment and not later.
The picture is symbolic for me!
Oil is bad for the nature. It happened. You can't change it.
But I saw the heart! And it inspired me. Something good in the bad.
Now in future in difficult times, I will remember that picture.
And I will be aware and look out for the good in the bad.
Except if you are in a jury…..
I was invited to be part of a jury of a talent show in Jalostotitlan, Mexiko.
What an experience!
Before I only knew being on the other side of the table, as an actor.
It was a challenge.
What impressed me more than talent was:
- confidence! sometimes younger people where more confident!
- being in the moment, something so rare, but beautiful to watch.
- and the passion, the joy someone had doing their presentation
- plus how they made you feel! It could be that someone played something,
with mistakes, but they made you feel!
Those attributes counted more in my judgment, than talent.
It’s not only about talent!
A new experience for me. I believe there are other areas in life where we put too much attention and neglect the other things.
You can be entertaining and enjoyable to watch with little talent.
And you can be boring even though you have talent.
Be confident, be in the moment, make others feel. Enjoy yourself!
Many people don’t believe in the power of visualization.
What they don’t know is: they already practice it!
People who worry, think in pictures. They visualize!
So, you could say: everyone does visualization!
What are you feeding your mind?
Do you think about the things you want?
“If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”
You want to be more creative?
Have better ideas?
Now you can!
With this secret!
You know those moments, when you think about someone and then BOOM you get a message!
Do you think it's coincidence?
Psychology has an explantion:
We remember all the times when we got a message/call after we thought about someone.
But we do not remember the many other times when we thought about that person and did not receive a message.
So we think, there is a connection.
That's what psychology says.
I believe most of the time this is true.
But sometimes I think there is more - something which we can't explain, but we can feel it.
On Saturday, out of the blue, I was thinking about a person with a strong positive feeling.
There was no trigger, that could have caused thinking about that person.
Suddendly the thought was there.
And a few minutes after - I received a message. I do not believe in that moment, that it was a coincidence. No way!
On top of that: the sender of the message was in a car and sent me a picture of the rain.
Guess what!
When I received the message, I was in a car, too - with rain. 10.000 kilometers away on another continent.
Coincidence?
The only question is, who thought about the other person first. We will never know.
Life is incredible with all its mysteries!
You know if something happens every day & everywhere, it becomes a standard.
If something is a standard, it doesn’t mean it is OK.
If you pay attention you will notice, that people talk more about the negative.
Have you noticed that?
People talk mostly about the bad things, about what is lacking. They talk more about problems than solutions.
And then people complain that they are not happy.
It’s a virus.
The immune system can only fight a virus, if it recognizes the virus.
Awareness of the negative is the first step in fighting it.
Stop negativity of others and don’t be the one spreading the virus.
Be aware of the virus and fight it!
“Negativity doesn’t help me.”
When you have plans, there are many obstacles which slow you down.
Sometimes you stand still or even the circumstances push you back.
BUT every step forward and closer to your goal feels great and gives energy to keep on fighting.
You can achieve anything what you want.
The secret is to believing in it and never even think about giving up.
Many people give up even close to their goal. NO!
Each step forward closer to your goal is a SUCCESS!
"Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must - just never give up."
On my Birthday I did a road trip with Stephan Bosch from Aguascalientes to Guanajuato to celebrate and to make a video about photography. I wanted to show the world how photography had a big impact on me and how it changed my life. My intention was to tell how photography can improve your life!
For the project I borrowed a good camera from Sergio García!
One day before the trip he explained how the camera (and microphone) works.
Well, I didn't listen very carefully and a disaster happened!
So, always pay attention, 100% if someone is explaining you something. Especially in a restaurant where the music is so loud, that you feel like being in a club.
Listen!
Every day we remember the past, good and bad.
Some memories are with regret, because we made mistakes.
Mistakes shouldn’t be seen as something negative.
Why regret past mistakes & fear future mistakes?
We all do mistakes. And it is good!
The mistakes teach us. We improve our life with mistakes.
Maybe in the moment we do a mistake, we don’t realize it could benefit us.
But with some time, we can look back and see: yes, mistakes are not bad!
“Life can only be understood backwards - but it must be lived forwards.”
Does a photo have to make sense? Does it have to always reflect reality?
No!
What makes a photo interesting? There are many opinions and tastes.
For me a photo works, if you pause for a few seconds.
If you look at the photo and think: “what is going on?”
Or if a photo invites you to use your imagination.
It has an "effect" and is causing your wheels in your head to move.
That, for me, is an interesting photo.
This series called “Incognito” I submitted a few days ago to a big international photo competition “Lensculture Emerging Talent Awards 2019”.
It is fascinating how the human brain works. Today morning I read an email.
Reading those few words gave me a big load of happy feelings and I started screaming. Just by reading an email!
This photo got selected by a jury in Switzerland. It is in the top 20.
Tomorrow morning I am going to read that same email again!
Today is a special day for me: International Day of Photography!
In a not so good time of my life, I got a little compact camera.
It was the best thing what happened to me. Incredible journey.
Thank you, for opening my eyes. I love you!
Bad and unfair things happen to all of us. It makes us sad and we wonder:
“Why is the world like that?”
You can get caught up in the thinking and analyzing. And then? What’s next?
Recently, when I experienced a bad thing, I remembered a quote:
“Don’t focus on the problem. Focus on the solution.”
From then on, I put my attention on finding a solution.
Instantly, I felt better AND I found a solution as well.
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