I am 17 years old and live with my family on the outskirts of Berlin, in a village surrounded by fields and forests. On foot or by bike, I have been out in nature with my camera almost every day for five years now. I’m constantly trying to realize different image ideas, and I’m becoming more and more fond of staging the motifs in an artistic rather than documentary way. I usually go out early in the morning, when it’s still dark, and wait a few hours camouflaged in a precisely chosen spot. I love the feeling of disappearing into nature and no longer being perceived as a human being by the animals. Being able to observe and photograph their natural behavior makes me happy and every time I feel how much I love nature with all its animals. I think I was 9 or 10 years old when I started to go out into nature more and more often on my own. At that time I was particularly fascinated by our local birds and I would spend hours enthusiastically observing their behavior, collecting feathers, listening to their voices, and learning to classify them according to species. From my excitement for nature, I increasingly developed a huge desire to photograph the animals I observed in nature as well as possible. After two years of working towards it, I was so happy to finally be able to fulfill my dream and bought my first camera with a telephoto lens myself and started doing what I love.

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