Regarding this somewhat special portfolio


These images are dedicated to the subtle beauty of alpine flowers, often only revealed upon closer inspection. They are intended to be a photographic work, not a botanical one.

In spring and early summer, one still encounters them today – despite centuries of alpine farming.

Meadows and slopes full of flowers of a fascinating variety.

All these colors, shapes and patterns, all these blossoms, these bells and chalices, rosettes and clusters... they sway in the warm wind that sweeps up the mountain meadows and some of them exude intense scents of summer and spices of life and seduction.

The following quote fits this series of images.
Frida Kahlo's quote is quite good: "I paint flowers so they don't die."

A photograph is the capturing of a very brief moment, a tiny fragment of the ceaselessly flowing river of time.
These photos thus show frozen moments from the life of flowers from a long-gone spring.


A word about the technology

They originated from color photographs, which were converted to black and white in post-processing. The photos were then partially hand-colored on a graphics tablet and produced as fine art prints.

Printed on high-quality laid paper from Hahnemühle.