When you look at Emil Nolde's work it's pretty hard to make the connection between his ideas/paintings and their relevance for photography. But what inspired me most are his brilliant expressive colors and his dissolution of lines and surfaces with his brush strokes - and how he gave life to the pretty flat landscape of northern Germany. But that'll be the topic of another post...
So there I was at Heinz Teufel's workshop thinking about what to extract from the great painter's "vision" and how to put it at work in my photography. As the first day of the workshop was dedicated to shooting flowers it was easy to get the expressive colors that Nolde is so famous for. And the dissolution of reality ("abstractification" ;-) comes with the shallow depth of field that is so typical for macro photography.
So here goes:
Or this one with the colorful petals reminding me of broad strokes on a canvas:
Click through the image to get to the large original.
Hope you like it!
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