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Hello, everyone! And welcome to our "Bi-weekly Artist's Feature"! 
Every second and fourth Sunday we will bring to you a journal featuring the work of one of our talented members! We basically choose 5-10 photos in their gallery and ask them to write a short introduction to their work.
Our contributors are working on choosing group members for the next features. Suggestions are always welcomed and, who knows, maybe one of these days you could be featured too!
This time around we have the photographer 
MichiLauke He has some things to share with us:Artist's Feature #15: MichiLauke
"I began taking pictures in 1957 at the age of 12. When I was 15 or 16 I won the National German Photography prize twice and started selling press photos to newspapers and magazines. Ten years ago my 14-year-old son taught me to change my "documentary press photo style" of photography into a kind of surreal art photography. He pushed me to become a member of deviantArt. A couple of years later I discovered fantastic Infrared Photos from gilad and MichaelMagin. They inspired me to try to start taking infrared photos on my own."
"I’m very happy about the fact that I found an easy way to make the invisible visible just by using an infrared filter. It shows the magic in every landscape."
"Sometimes just "normal" motifs can change totally into magic surreal scenery if you just put on an r72 infrared filter on your lens. Take it easy and be patient with your first results. Read some tutorials and google your camera model and lens if they are suitable for infrared photography."
Check out the rest of his gallery!
Portrait and Landscape Compositions Exist
Seriously. How does an art site not know that other than square compositions exist? If a square composition was right, I would have shot it that way. If I wanted to be on Instagram, I'd be on fucking Instagram.
Hasn't been a Journal for a long while.
Not sure I'll last beyond the switch to Eclipse. And not because I can't eventually make my peace with a new format. But it's driving away the people I need to learn from.
Not that it really matters, this is more of an epitaph than anything. Like I say, most of my friends here have moved along already.
A long time ago, this place helped me go from being a kid with a good eye to a legitimately good photographer. My hope is to become great someday, but I don't think that can happen here anymore. The mentors are gone, the dialogue is gone. In its place is a click farm where you're lured to the next page instead of really interacting.
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Yeah. My Old Journal was Depressing
So I wanted to bury it.
Here's an idea.
Respond with an idea and I will reply with a photograph that represents that idea as well as I can manage.
Go nuts you psychos.
Bored Photographer Problems
Woe is me.
The leaves are gone.
Sunsets are all gray.
The galactic center is on the wrong side of the globe at night.
I live too far south for Northern Lights.
Bugs are all dead for the winter.
Flowers are all dead for the winter.
Nobody gets married in February.
I'm too poor to travel to alpine places.
That's an excuse
I'm really too fat and lazy to go climbing alpine places.
Not really "con" season.
And I don't really have a connection here who is into that sort of thing.
And I'm shy.
Deer don't like having things pointed at them this time of year.
That's fair.
Old war buddy is living in my "studio" until he finds work.
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great interview, thx for posting it 