There is a new publication available on Blurb now. Over the last couple of months I have collected a portfolio of blurred landscape photographs. 56 photographs were selected and grouped for the 60 page book. I decided to publish this book as document for the latest change in my way to see and look at [...]
Taking a short tour around the Abbey Maulbronn takes not much more than an hour with plenty of time to sketch and take photographs. Spring, Autumn and Winter are the best seasons as to light and colors for a visit to Maulbronn. The view on the quiet lake is beautiful at around 17.30 -18.00 h [...]
There is a new link on the blogroll named “Postcard from my walk“. This is a little project that some 14 people will participate in over the next 13 months. Each month we will try to put something what we see on our walks through landscape (or somewhere else) on a postcard and send it [...]
Waldspaziergang | Make Your Own Book I have put together a quick paperback book, which contains black and white photographs taken on a recent walk in the woods with a handy camera. Two panoramas, the record of 24X25 footsteps and some mushrooms are included. This is not about perfection or beauty in photography. Some of [...]
It is very rewarding to look at the same trees from different sides and to study them again and again. Many trees are good old friends of mine and I re-visit them regularly. Each time I find something new and surprising, some changes that have taken place, which tell about time and age. Today I [...]
Weblog about drawing trees, sketching in forests by Martin Stankewitz,Edition Handdruck,Maulbronn
mail: e-post(at)edition-handdruck(dot)de
"It is no exaggerated praise to call a tree the grandest and most beautiful of all productions on the earth."
Reverend William Gilpin
Observations on Forest Scenery
Artist notes
Forest Postcards
Tree Poster
Tree landscape
How to draw a tree- Publication on Blurb
Forest diary- the sketchbook re-print on Blurb
Buy Print on Redbubble