About this Website

Why ‘The invisible universe’?

The human senses are so limited. And that doesn't just mean that distant wavelengths, microscopic dimensions or cosmic expanses prevent people from grasping the true nature of things. Only a fraction of the complexity and beauty of nature around us reaches the human mind. The rest remains hidden - until it is made consciously perceptible to humans.

Photography expands the human perceptual space and makes the otherwise invisible visible - bringing what is perhaps not consciously perceived into the focus of the viewer.

In a photographic image, the starry sky shines in a splendour and colour that is imperceptible to the naked eye. The filigree complexity of a spider in its web escapes the viewer even on closer inspection. Only in a photograph - a snapshot of nature captured for infinity - does nature reveal its beauty to the human mind.

Indeed, even for the viewer at home, a picture taken in distant lands opens up a hitherto invisible universe into a world that he would otherwise never have seen. Foreign worlds, unknown cultures, the human perceptual space is simply tiny, even with such a small radius of action...

The important thing about photography is therefore neither the camera nor the pictures themselves, but the photographer's and the viewer's eye for the beauty and complexity of the universe.

On the following pages I would like to present a tiny section of the fascinating world that surrounds us everywhere. The view leads from the microcosm to the enormous dimensions of the universe.

 

Please note: this website has mixed contend in German and English.

 

About me

I am a Scientist and interested in Amateur-Astronomy and Photography. For questions please write a mail.

A night at the telescope...