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Edmund
Nagele is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of
Great Britain (FRPS). When I left a Munich advertising
studio for Ireland, I dreamed of cheap whisky, hot geysers
and a little adventure. Wrong. Very wrong indeed! The
whiskey was expensive, the hot springs were in Iceland and
the little adventure developed into a big adventure.
The
land and it's people were fascinating right from the
beginning and after learning a few words of the English
language, tinted with an Irish flavor,
mind and soul were cleared of orderly Teutonic perceptions.
The wind blew away the acquired photographic rules to let
grey skies and green meadows convert easily into stunning
pictures. The adventure was in full swing and I never
missed the Bavarian studio.
Since
then I have travelled to many exotic countries. During
1973, in recognition of my work, I was awarded the honours
of a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society of Great
Britain (FRPS). In 1982 I started to build up my own
Picture Library (www.nagelestock.net)
and for commercial reasons, moved to England. Here I soon
discovered the Highland of Scotland which has so much in
common with the Emerald Isle. Instead of a sunshade I
placed many other astonishing, yet creative bits in front
of my lenses in order to manipulate my work within the
camera. Deception by photography ?
Then
came the pixels: Rather than being satisfied with
retouching existing photographs, I went in at the deep end
and experimented with many different digital styles. The
painted effects, created with the help of PhotoShop and
Painter software, give a new meaning to "painting with
light". Here, photography drifts into virtual painting
and with each controlled brushstroke new ideas are opened
up. Mankind expressed creativity in the Stone Ages with a
few colours derived from nature itself. The palette of
shades evolved over centuries, today even the smallest of
home computer, iThingy or smart phone lay claim to
"millions of colours". Thus in photography, it is
not the camera that creates the picture, but the person
behind it - the computer technology is simply a medium
helping us to express ourselves in ways we could have never
envisaged a few years ago. May my selection of images cross
barriers of language and culture, offering only
inspiration.
If
you wish to license any of my images for personal or
commercial use you may do so at nagelestock.pixels.com
and alamy.com.
You are cordially invited to view my selection of exclusive
calendars
at
the “art edition” below.
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