Open Theme nominee

Taken while I was wandering around the city, doing some street photography. I happened across this older workshop in the old town of Zurich with the two cats waiting expectantly on the bench for some morsels from their owner, who is not in view. I like the tonality in the image and also it gives the viewer some opportunity to explore and perhaps imagine. Expectations on the side of the cats, and imagination opportunity for the viewer. The old workshop door/lift entrance can be seen, with some of the tools on the workshop bench and what appears to be a large milk urn. I went by there recently and showed the delighted owner this picture, to sort of complete the loop.

I was born in South Africa and am currently living and working in Switzerland. I have been taking pictures since 1968, when I was 10 years old – starting with a simple DIANA 620 plastic camera. Initially everything was processed for me through the local Pharmacy - later on I graduated to doing my own Black and White developing in a darkroom.

In my early days I liked doing Landscape Photography as well as Street Photography; I’ve retained my love of Street Photography. My style today, I would best describe as "opportunistic". I have, after many years, realized that I think graphically as a person. I read well and can dissect complicated things fairly well, but I do this at my best when I am presented them in graphic form (or mathematical form) because then I can, at a glance "see the whole picture", so to speak. Maybe this is why photography attracts me so much. Opportunistic to me in this sense, means taking the picture if it somehow resonates with my visual system at that instant. I like doing Portrait, Landscape, Street, Conceptual etc.