Nico Kaiser
“What I love most about photography is that it sharpens the senses for everything beautiful! If you like to take photos, you simply pay much more attention to your surroundings, to special light moods, to structures, to symmetry or even just to beautiful colours. Photography means "painting with light" and that is exactly what I try to do again and again!”
I am especially fascinated by night or milky way pictures. On the one hand, of course, they mean a particularly high effort. Firstly, they require a lot of time, because you have to plan a lot and these images are only possible at very specific times. But also technically, because sometimes you need special equipment and also experience in handling them. But all this is forgotten when you stand in a special place in pitch darkness and see a milky way on the display of the camera for the very first time. Maybe you are even all alone and enjoy the feeling of experiencing a special moment. As an example I would like to mention the area with the huge satellite antennas in Raisting / Bavaria. They are already something very special by day. A combination of modern technology and the beautiful Bavarian landscape. But when you stand alone on the field at night and hear the mechanical clicking of the facilities while your eyes get used to the darkness and you can see the milky way arc shining across the sky… That is a very special atmosphere. When in addition to that the storks, which you often see there, clatter with their beaks… Surreal!
Another aspect that I particularly like about night photography is the light painting. Since you work at night with long exposure times, you automatically have time to paint a writing into the picture, for example with the headlamp. For this, one only has to have a certain three-dimensional imagination and of course one has to be able to write in mirror writing. Just try it out!
Photos are made to be seen!