How important is your photo equipment to produce better pictures? My answer is that a good photographer can produce good pictures with any camera. The photograph is not made by the camera, but by your view of the world. The camera is only the last part of that expression of creativity. You might have seen [...]
Cape Town at full moon. Please click image for larger view. The image print is available for sale. Please email jurgen@jurgen-photo.com for more information.
I have been fascinated by a particular view for the last week. One of Cape Town’s highways has a beautiful view over the harbor. Whenever I returned from town this week, I stopped to take pictures from a particular point. Today, I experimented a with HDR photography. HDR stands for high dynamic range, which means [...]
During my visit to Germany, my parents gave us as a present a new cooking knife. I love cooking, almost as much as photographing. In both, you can create with some simple ingredients something really nice or … not. Over the years, I became a great fan of Jamie Oliver’s cooking. Hardly any of his [...]
At the beginning of January, I wrote a post called: “Whats’s coming in 2010?” It was a overview of what changed in 2009 and some general ideas, on what I have planned for 2010. Since I started Jürgen’s Photography, I always had the question in my mind on how I can make the experience of [...]
2009 was an interesting year for Jürgen’s Photography. The Web site went through some major changes and brought back to it’s core, what it is all about: Good photography. A good friend gave me valuable insight and advice on how the online presentation of Jürgen’s Photography could be improved. I started the year, using a [...]
I spent some time over the last few days to prepare a small movie for the Nikon Festival. The theme was “My day in 140 seconds”. For you Tweeple (Twitter people) the 140 seconds will make sense as we are restricted to 140 characters for our tweets. My idea was to combine things that I [...]
After weeks of thinking, designing, rethinking and redesigning, my new website is finally launched. My website is the public face of Jurgen’s Photography. At the end of last year, I moved totally to a site designed in Flash. This was great for image presentation, but bad for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and load time. Flash [...]
Ferryman’s at the Cape Town Waterfront redesigned their upstairs restaurant. My assignment was to photograph the new interior design
Since the early days of Jurgen’s Photography, I was interested in making things as easy as possible for my clients.