About

Hello Dear Visitor!

Welcome to my blog.
Thank you for stopping by! I hope I made five minutes of your life a little bit different. Hope that it was positive experience.
And I would like to invite you to come back soon!

Let me introduce myself a little bit.
My name is Joanna. I am self-taught photographer.
Even though self-taught, there is many people I could thank for directing me, influencing my work, critiquing,  supporting, suggesting,  commenting, spending their time to listen to me.  Thank you for that!
I am also wife. To great man who introduced me into some more than beginners computers topics, taught me about some amazing gadgets in electronics, is sharing his daily “pearls before swine” comic strips- and many more fun activities.
I am knitter.  Not as involved as I used to be- but I can make you a pair of socks in no time!
I am book reader. What can I say- fiction is the best way to change my reality sometimes.
I am also workaholic. Always tons of stuff to do. Trying to work on my list system these days- to help get my plans organized.
If you have some questions for me- you can always contact me through my website’s http://joannasfoto.com contact form or just send me an e-mail: joanna[!a]joannasfoto.com

Thanks!
Joanna

Artist  Statement

Ever since the first camera I got to hold in my hands I thought about it as a magic device.
It still is for me. The ability to freeze a moment. Chance to capture something that is so many times so close, but so often unnoticed.

The choice of photographic subject is infrequently set up. More often I just go with my camera and stop when I have noticed something that is attracting my attention. I like to take a stroll through the neighborhood and find interesting flowers, plants, forms and shapes in gardens I am passing by.

It all started so simply- the art of taking pictures of flowers. Since than I have discovered different photographic techniques, many options that the equipment can offer and so many ways of transforming original file into the final image that shows exactly what I was trying to point to in the first place. Very often I use specific color scheme to place stress on the part that I would like to show the most. The nature itself is the most inspiring to me. I like to take a look at things I can find around me and show it with stress on different that usual part. I like to experiment with colors, trying various approaches. My favorite tones are brown, green, gray and those most of the time found in my work.