Fine Art nominee

Iceland, my dreamland. Since I've never been there, I booked a tour with my wife (7 days) on the A1 with a travel company. All recordings were made only under stress conditions since in a large tour group has little time for photo shoot long exposures. The post-processing in BW was done with heart and passion. Here I tried to transform feeling in the photos. What I also certainly succeeded.
The five waterfalls in my series entitled: On days like these ...
Title of the series from left to right:
1) Cream Pies (Gullfoss)
2) Stairway to Heaven (Seljalandsfoss)
3) Invisible in Skógafoss
4) Hymn (Svartifoss)
5) The Light of the Lord (Godafoss)
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Island, mein Traumland. Da ich noch nie dort war buchte ich mit meiner Frau eine Rundreise (7 Tage) auf der A1 mit einem Reiseunternehmen. Alle Aufnahmen entstanden nur unter Stressbedingungen da man in einer großen Reisegruppe nur wenig Zeit für Fotoaufnahmen mit Langzeitbelichtung hat. Die Nachbearbeitung in BW war mit Herzblut und Leidenschaft geschehen. Hier habe ich versucht Gefühl in die Fotos zu transformieren. Was mir auch sicherlich gelungen ist.
Die fünf Wasserfälle sind aus meiner Serie mit dem Titel: An Tagen wie diese ...

Michael O.A. Klapper is an amateur photographer who started with photography in 2010. After several years of self-introduction and trying almost every genre in photography he ended up in black and white long-exposure fineart and multiple exposure photography in 2013. His special interest is capturing modern, urban architecture and seascapes around the world. The passion for seascapes has taken him to several countries around the world like: Madeira, Iceland, Portugal, south of England , Ireland and Spain. Unlike other photographers he prefers to shoot in bad weather conditions with cloudy skies to create a minimalistic photographys focussing on the essential.