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The idea of capturing indoor scenes using back lighting from a brightly lit window came to me back in May 2013 during a photo shooting with some very furry models.

Cats strolling across the floor or curled up on their favourite chair produced images which were either quite blurred, or in which their smug little feline faces were totally obscured by paws and tails. The only place they condescended to pose nicely was in front of the window.

Being a bright sunny spring day it was quite a challenge, there was plenty of light but it was all in the wrong place. Massively over exposing was on the very edge of my comfort zone, but after quite a bit of experimenting I did manage to obtain an image that I, at least, found satisfying.

Thoughts of a possible project began over a year later when I visited my daughter and her partner's flat. They had just moved in and I just happened to have my camera with me. It was July, sunlight was everywhere and I just couldn't resist pointing the camera at windows.

After making one or two photographs of their flat I rather liked the effect and decided to continue the style in a sort of project. Project is perhaps not quite the correct definition bevause projects tend to be well thought out and managed, what I had in mind was neither well thought out nor managed.

The decision to shoot in black & white just felt right. However, during this project I'm using a set of individually adjusted 'saved user settings' which not only shoots in black and white mode and fiddles with things like contrast, but also saves a RAW file so that colour information is available if necessary.

Although the original idea was to create images with strong back lighting, many of them are not back lit at all. Generally speaking I have simply tried to capture the very special ambience achieved by using available light.

During a visit to the open air museum in Ballenberg and a local museum in castle Moersburg I unwittingly enjoyed the benefits of 'found still life'.

Found still life, it seems, is still life that hasn't been painstakingly and artistically arranged by the photographer but has been found and photographed just as it is.

Museums, castles and similar places of interest employ people who set scenes, they place books, jugs and all sorts of ye olde paraphernalia on tables and in kitchens. Still life just waiting to be found.