About me ...

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Photography happened to be part of my scientific education. The first two things I learned, as a cell biology student of the 80s, might sound rather strange when mentioned together: digital image processing and black & white film photography. ​

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To observe inside the living cells, I had to count on computers (8-inch floppy disks, any one??) to enhance in real time the smallest brightness differences of cells for video recording, B&W films to record dim images of cellular structures, and subsequently, an enlarger in the darkroom for printing photos for records and publications.

 

Shortly after a 3-minute crash course in printing and seeing my first cell image turning up on paper, with myself succumbed to the temptation, some non-cell images also emerged in the developer bath shortly after. Not much later I also found some other "non-scientific" test prints, obviously by some more talented colleague, accidentally left in the shared darkroom. Cell biology encourages photography!

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Fast forward to this century ... having gone AWOL from biomedical research, these days I am merely some one who appreciates the beauty of the skies, the land, the waters, and whatever in between - when my attention is away from growing food for ourselves, birds, or little bugs.

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(No, there is nothing commercial here.)