a tady samozrejme taky
(not that I am expecting you to come back, but this is, at least in my eyes, brilliant)

great! (especially the last two pcs)

i actually learned to _truly like_ the first one, too.
it's become part of "the fleischmann signature" or something...

willkommen zuruck

2, 3, 4, 7 are great
5 this one does not work
6 is good as well
1 still dont get this one in the context of your work

Der Fleischmann ist echt! :)
nice shots, as ever...

i really like your way how can you see the things about you.

[fs:102] [fugl] is excellent for me for a long time..

arthur, i don't see any problem with keeping things simple. :)

it must be taken by a very smart camera.

but the only thing i hear in my head is last christmas... ;-)

i like exai, hello.

there's something very peculiar about this type of pictures. cant say it's downright special or even rare, but i don't get to see such pictures every day... i know people though, who tried and failed at this.
now this here, it somehow feels right. it's dead and blunt, yet kicking and subtle. there's much power pumped into the visuals but it's obvious you're also trying to capture stuff beneath (or beyond, around? ;) the flashed surface. when you fully succeed at this, there will be things to behold. (hear ye the prophet, mortalzz ;))

Tomas, thanks for writing down your thoughts, very interesting for me. Especially what you wrote about the composition of the second picture, I tend to agree with you. It might sound a bit silly given the central composition in most of these pictures, but I do think quite a lot about these matters and I often have doubts myself about compositions and if the images are not a bit too "simple" overall. Maybe I shouldn't say this? ;-)

Many people seem to dislike the first picture, and I think I can understand why. For me it's just a very cliche/Kitsch motive, so yes it's "horrible" in a way. :-) But as Pista wrote I hope when seen as part of this series it might have another meaning. I do understand that some people prefer some pictures over others, it's only natural and I do this myself, but still the single images should be seen only as parts of a whole.

Hey, thanks a lot everybody, I already like it here! :-)

arthur, to me this is some very solid work, including those thoughts you've tried to put into words down here.

that said, i too have had other favorites in your ball-saal folio (all deleted now).

i tend to skip number one (iber). it's horrible :) but i kinda expected to see it having skimmed through what you currently have up on your personal site. it might very well be the most important one in the whole set, because it makes me think about how far you can stretch abstraction without violating visuals, as visuals, to me, always come before anything else when doing this kind of "seek & twist" on reality. so, though i have to admit i maybe even hate this particular frame, it's also true it serves as the most thought-provoking, at least in this actual setting.

the second one, koca, lacks consistency in terms of composition in the series, and personally i find the composition unfortunate if not arbitrary. other than that the photo is fine to me.

the rest, excluding etau (etau seems to me to be about something completely different than the rest of the set, and i don't like it), just flat out _works_ - and very much to my personal preferences. cheers!

btw, exai reminded me of an old amiga game, moonstone. don't ask why, i have no idea. :)

i got the idea you wanted to say at first sight - it means i like it. :) but i dont understand the first one in that line.
your sentence below about why are you shooting those things is the one im trying to think up for year...

wow, the folks start to sort pictures like this one yes and this one no.

so, for me it's important to feel whole series as is. the conection bettween first and the others pieces is still a little hiden for me, but on other hand, it's more interesting for me becouse of this.
i'm totally agree that it's foolish to iluminate what message is in this set.
for me, it's something like when i'm coming home from pub early morning and the world around is "deformed" by night. the well-known places are incognoscible... and it's my feeling from this series.

i like it... it is morning, so i cant write some clever points in english..")

i like koca and fugl.

despite its not my kind of thing i can see an overall hi-standard and that you know what you are doing.

welcome, hope you will like it here.

i don't like the first one, but all the following twins are great for me.
welcome, Arthur.

this is gonna be fun to watch, contemplate.

Yes, there are. :)

Exactly Jan, associations and many (I hope) possible interpretations. The order of the pictures is also not too strict, I think there are also other possible ways of sequencing the pictures that would make sense (to me).

Aha! Now I get it, or at least I hope so. It's not that the whole set would follow a common line (putting flash usage aside), but rather the succesive pictures are more like associations, in colors, forms etc. I thought so, but wasn't really sure at some points, like transition from [oleg] to [exai] for instance.

Jan (Winkler), ok no problem. I also recently removed some pictures from my ball-saal account so could well be some of the ones you liked are no longer there... ;-) But still if you find the time it would just be interesting for me to know which ones you were talking about.

Anyway, about the "common thing". I am a bit hesitant to write too much about this as I don't want to influence too much by words what people see in the pictures. But the main idea I guess is that I look for "everyday" things, objects etc. in the world and turn them into something else by photographing them. For me these pictures are records of those things but at the same time they work in a more abstract way, as metaphors. For example, in the [oska] pictures there's a massive tree and a thin wire is attached to it, while the [oleg] picture shows a slim pole that has wires inside. So these are the recorded facts, but also they could have meaning beyond that. For me they are about some things and how they are connected to something else and their environment... the tree or the pole or the wire could be any other thing - or person, or thought... It could mean anything or nothing, really. Quite hard to write about this for me, I hope I don't sound like a complete lunatic. ;-) Also colors and structures are important links for me, I think the patterns of the clouds and grass in the first two pictures look similar. Or the yellow in [fugl] and [oska]. Could be I'm asking too much of the viewer, as I said it's hard to judge I see and what I can expect others to see in my pictures.

Oh, right now, I'm too lazy, and busy too, to trace back particular shots on ball-saal, sorry. But I may (no promises here) sometime put together my personal pick of your best. Or better yet, you put your stuff here and I'll tell you. ;)

Can you articulate that common thing in the pictures? Seeing and thinking about your stuff is great, but having it explained by you yourself would perhaps push the whole thing up to yet another level. :)

viz. your mail...

Jan, which other works are you refering to? It's very interesting for me what you wrote regarding heterogeneity, for me there are clear connections between the pictures. But this is why I'm really glad to get feedback, I see certain things in these pictures but it's so hard to say for me if other people do as well. So thanks a lot, I very much appreciate your criticism!

Thanks to everyone for your comments!

es gefällt mir als das Ganze sehr, aber vor allem: koca, fugl, exai.
gut! :-)

These shots aren't as mindblowing as some of your other works. I also cannot see any clue as to why these are published in one set, they seem quite heterogenous to make up a series, if you catch my drift. :)

However, I can feel your handwriting, and am eagerly awaiting more of your stuff on fstop. Welcome. :)

peace without firsth.

my countdown ;)
great for me! [etau][oska][koca]
i like it: [fugl][oleg][exai]

ikea [etau] is good

;)

etau by i par jedincu sezralo ;) teda ty peceny proteiny
for me fugl + etau
a little oleg/koca/oska
exai + iber not for me

[fs:102] I love [fugl] and [etau].

these are great:
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7

:))

ikea is very good. the rest is very bad for me.