Mastering a creative skill—whether photography or music—isn’t about achieving perfection; it’s about embracing the process, passion, and progress. Kai reflects on the parallels between learning guitar and photography, encouraging readers to trust their creative growth, value the process, and focus on authentic expression over gear or external validation.
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2023 in review - my personal take
A personal look back to my year 2023.
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My very personal take on the year past: 2022.
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These precious moments: being outside in a beautiful environment with the camera in my hand. This image was taken by my son. I went on a trip together with my two kids to Harz, Germany, in Winter 2021/2022. My son was very helpful in filming me for a tutorial and taking a few images of me being in action. We all enjoyed the first snow and my kids helped me a great deal.
“how do you balance job and photography?”
“How do you balance a photography career aside from your main job and family?”. Here is my answer to this question. A story about finding balance. Or trying to do so. A look back and some personal experiences, good and bad, of how I am creating balance and finding time while being a part time professional photographer, a part time business man in HR and a family man.
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I point to the year 2016 as the start of my landscape photography. But that is not the first time I ever picked up a camera to shoot. That had happened way before. This one for example is a creative try out from 2010.
"what does photography mean to you?"
A new section especially for my newsletter subscribers: I do answer questions and go deep (and personal) into what you like to know. This first installment: what does photography mean to me?
A trip down memory lane and into what drives me creatively. The highs and lows.
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Mastering a creative skill—whether photography or music—isn’t about achieving perfection; it’s about embracing the process, passion, and progress. Kai reflects on the parallels between learning guitar and photography, encouraging readers to trust their creative growth, value the process, and focus on authentic expression over gear or external validation.