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“Magic is just around the corner.
“I want to give you a glimpse into my world – which may be a tiny little bit different from the one you know. It’s a little surreal and mysterious place, where sometimes the magic is sparkling light, sometimes dark and haunting; maybe even slightly disturbing and oh so tempting at the same time.
“Those places you will go, those places you have dreamt before, those childhood places you completely forgot, those places where you want to stay and never go away.
“Sometimes they are a little smaller than you’d expect, sometimes a lot bigger, and sometimes only visible in twilight light. Their atmosphere seems to alter and their silence seems to deepen a little when dusk comes near.
“To find them, I didn’t travel the world and the seven seas; no, in fact the major part of my work is found and shot somewhere just around the corner.
“Strangely enough – most of these places are hidden in plain sight. Patiently waiting for someone who sees them, but sadly mostly ignored and almost overgrown by todays no-nonsense rationality.
“Maybe it’s just like one of those shoebox diorama’s you saw as a kid – seen at a normal angle, it was just some box with cardboard trees and houses in it, but looking through the peephole it suddenly became a complete mesmerizing new world.
“Regretfully we aren’t enchanted by shoeboxes anymore, and even our daily surroundings may have become almost invisible to us. Maybe that is one of the main reasons that we travel – to find new places, where the things are just slightly different from what we know – therefore we can see it with new eyes.
“But to bring that back home again is quite a different story; so I chose to stay closer at home, and try to find it there.
“I do not want to document or register the surroundings, but to catch the mood that I felt there – it’s that mood that I want to be present in my pictures.
“Maybe I’m just making a new diorama, reshaping quite ordinary landscapes, and putting them into a box, and inviting you to look through the peephole and hoping that you will see a little magic too.”
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The Sphere
Neutrinos faster than the speed of light? Did we awaken something from deep sleep? Something rising from a deep abyss?
I took this shot on the day they announced that some particles seemed to travel faster than light.
I wanted a sense of mystery, like something very old or alien unveiling before our eyes; something that isn’t necessarily good or evil, but a lot bigger than we can handle.
This was originally a large dome, placed in a typical very ugly industrial suburb – I hope you don’t mind I cloaked that a little with a double exposure with the clouds of the same scene, upside down.
(September 17 – 120 km from home)
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Free Floating
Of course a flying Dutchman shouldn’t be left out of this selection. I imagined this ship, already half in dusk, floating in absolute silence towards the horizon.
One day in March I found it.
It was out of the water, in a dock – any floating prevented by the clamps.
All I did have to do was to take a shot from low angel, remove the clamps and the ground to really let it floating free.
(March 24 – 16 km from home)
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A Field of Dandelions
At the end of April, spring can burst out in all its power. The feeling of lying on your back in a field of flowers, on a first warm night, maybe imagining being as small as a ladybug. Imagining dwelling in the forest in the background, maybe finding a pleasant feast with lights, and joy and laughter?
Shot in the dark – with lights from a nearby window.
(April 28 – 300 m from home)
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The Stairway
It could be a sense of freedom, the start of a new journey, a desire to follow that bird, to be running up that hill, and to see what is beyond.
Or maybe it could be more like a reoccurring dream – again climbing the stairs, knowing that there is something up there, and that you’re not sure if you want to see it, but you have to look.
I often try to make you wonder, maybe by just not showing you the landscape behind. I hope your imagination will think of a place.
This is the entrance to an artificial grave hill, the old tombstones of a former church where placed somewhere in the woods near by the city where I currently live in.
It has the same silent and peaceful quality as you can find on a genuine graveyard. Especially on a fresh sunny day in early summer.
Besides the colors, I didn’t alter too much, even the bird was nice enough to be circling around.
(April 30 – 3 km from home)
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Call of the Lake
A quiet evening at the lakeside, feeling the dusk become more and more present and slowly surrounding you; a lake that almost becomes luminous and pulls you right in.
No known stories like loch Ness here, although I’m not so sure of that. This is shot in an area where there are a few folkloristic stories, more than in the other villages.
I did forgot my tripod that day – but it’s nice that they put picnic tables on spots with great views – those tables do a terrific job and always seem to be headed to the sweet spot.
(July 20 – 15 km from home)
Tim S. Trebla currently lives in the north of the Netherlands, a region with water, lots of water.
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Photo Travel Review Magazine recognizes Tim S. Trebla for the uniqueness of his work. He is widely recognized for his subjects, and his compositions. His unique approach to the photographic art form is refreshing and unusual, giving one a sense of place found in areas close to home. It is the mystery of his work that is most appealing, his vision temps one to look again and again at the world close by. In addition to his website, his works may be viewed at Pbase and at Flickr.
