
Down to the Pool

tobias m. schiel



Is it just me or does this reverberate with the lens artists’ challenge #331 – resilience?


Happy new year!

Slow down. Relax. Have a merry Christmas.

Lens-artists challenge #329: I am not entirely sure what’s happening in this picture because I was putting the focus on composition rather than narrative. However, the figures’ poses seem to hint at seomething last chance-y..







These miniature scenes do not happen out of the blue. I am an amateur photographer. I love wearing that type of cap. People have to wait for my while I take a photo. And yes, I have photographed shop windows before.
Scanning my photos for proof, I found some pictures that fit the bill. Looking back even made me realize I hid my face in my real-life self portraits as well.
I think when we photograph we always do it with thousands of pictures in our heads, even if we do not have them all before our inner eye in the moment we release the shutter.


Left: “A Picture With Me in It” (2012), right: “Junk” (2009)


A happy coincidence: This picture is part of a sequence, and it is ready to be shared just the moment lens-artist Leya announced this week’s challenge #319: Setting a Mood.

In case you would like to peek behind the scenes, I wrote about the conversion of a miniature warehouse into a miniature museum here.






Akademierundgang stands for open house at Düsseldorf’s art academy. This year, the Rundgang (circuit) featured the graduates’ final projects. It was interesting at least, and very enjoyable at best. And while I don’t usually see the point of sharing photographs of art works, some objects cerntainly invited play. In this case, the high rise buildings appealed to the toy photographer. I also liked the idea that they could be boxed and stored away. The stairs in one of the other ateliers were as inviting, I hope the pictures allow a glance at the conditions under which art is produced.




Akademierundgang stands for open house at Düsseldorf’s art academy. This year, the Rundgang (circuit) featured the graduates’ final projects. More than photographing the art itself, I enjoy making pictures of the premises, showing and commenting the circumstances under which art is made.