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Profile - some catchwords
 Born 1958 in the artist-village Worpswede (grandfather - artist and poet) and raised in Witten, one of the industrial centres in the west of Germany. Colour photography just developed to be available for everybody.
Started photography in 1970, with one of the first pocket-cameras, that was advertised as "ritsch-ratsch-click".
Got extensive Minolta SLR equipment in 1974. Selftaught mostly, specialised on landscape and stage photography.
About to apply for the "Folkwang"-Art-School (Essen), section photography in 1976 after 12 years in school. Samples for application were all gathered. A final counselling in the Federal Employment Office about chances on the market of art photography was outmost frustrating. What was ment to be an artist's life, mostly ends up with wedding photography or in the darkroom of big laboratries or in poverty, so they said.
Persuaded to get a "real" job, learned gardening - and always rued the day I listened to the advisor. Photo equipement was then completely sold. Only back to pocket camera to get family pictures, when my two daughters were born in 1980 and 1982.
Girls grew up to teens and asked for stage photography of their idols at pop-concerts from on 1997. Got a Konica Zoom 140mm, still refusing serious photography.
Same camera worked 2001 on the first journey to Ireland. Slowly got over the "career-trauma". Many trips followed. Results are shown on www.spirited-ireland. This camera had it's limits and so had the scanner. Therefor many pictures are unimpressive, though the angles are well chosen. The "hobby"-website will get a refresh soon.
Nicola in Ireland
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Invested into better hardware in 2004, a professional scanner and the Canon EOS 300D, a digital SLR camera. Regular exchange with professional photographers and active member of www.dpreview.com. Multiple objects of interest, but special focus on churches and stage photography. It's by far more than a hobby now.
Since 2005 freelancer for a newspaper, specialised for concert reviews and stage photography. Arranged supervision with professional photo designer and teacher Stefan Ziese.
Best photo-quality with minimal filesize for the use on internet is one of my main interests in my work as web-designer. This was honored in a web-competition 2005, announced by the Protestant Church of Germany. One of my projects (www.klosterkirche.de) was second winner throughout Germany. Good quality of the more than 1200 photos and reproductions was one of the evaluated criteria.
Ireland is my second base for webdesign, next goal is, to expand with photography on the Irish market.
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