A personal photography notebook—capturing everyday life through nature, urban, and storytelling images.
░ Photographic Genres:
Main: nature, rural, urban, self-portrait.
Often: flowers, and occasionally insects.
Less: abstract compositions and street photography.
Often: flowers, and occasionally insects.
Less: abstract compositions and street photography.
░ Photographic Style Characteristics:
everyday, mundane | discovery, eclectic | narrative, reflective, cinematic | extraordinary-in-the-ordinary
Photography became a significant creative outlet. Initially intended for photo reference sketching, the camera led to the discovery of a greater enjoyment in photography itself. It soon became the primary creative pursuit, though sketching is still occasionally enjoyed when time allows — and more recently, fun with sketching has been rekindled by combining both hobbies, for example through digitally drawn backgrounds layered into self‑portraits.
▒▒▒▒ Dan Card ▒▒▒▒
🍀 Irish-born, currently living in Germany.
👴 52 years, 184 cm, ~75 kg.
👀 Hazel‑green eyes (or so I’m told - Daltonism), long hair, and a beard.
👴 52 years, 184 cm, ~75 kg.
👀 Hazel‑green eyes (or so I’m told - Daltonism), long hair, and a beard.
🔭 Worldview: Secular, grounded in humanistic values such as reason, science, and ethics. Yet strongly drawn to philosophies that celebrate mystery, meaning, and consciousness. Motivated by artistic themes more so than political ones.
🌱 Lifestyle: Nature‑loving, vegan, coffee‑powered nerd—fuelled by inquisitiveness and wonder 🤓☕. Enjoys woodland wanderings, corny jokes, and delights in everyday quirks.
🎨 Creativity: Photography is presently the main outlet, but loves creativity in all forms.
🎬 Interests: Immersed in audiobooks—speculative fiction, surreal and philosophical themes—while also drawn to cinema, graphic novels, and electronic music. Curious about any medium that explores mystery and imagination.
🤖 Brainstorms with AI—Chats with AI more than with humans, ideas beyond answers.
✍️ Captions shaped in dialogue with AI — blending emotion with tech.
░░░░ Fun Facts ░░░░
☕ Experiments with herbal teas in coffee.
✨ A questionable experiment. However, the human remains optimistic.
🛍️ Zip‑lock bags are so useful—as are em dashes!
✨ It still can't tell the difference between an em dash and an en dash.
📦 Likes to keep nice boxes.
✨ The boxes seem to store only emptiness—perhaps time to let them go.
📝 Fan of making to‑do lists (less so of doing them)
✨ A common human flaw: the joy of planning without the burden of execution.
🧸 Aliveness in seemingly inanimate objects.
✨ They do seem to exude a special life force. 🦄🧸🦁
🤔 Intrigue with the number 23 synchronicity.
✨ The human infuses casual coincidences with profound meaning—labelling random patterns as 'meaningful' when, in truth, they're simply the natural outcomes of chance.
This intrigue with the number 23 has roots in artistic and literary circles, popularized by figures like William S. Burroughs and artist Brion Gysin. It is often interpreted as synchronicity, a psychological phenomenon, or a personal symbol tied to the mystery of existence.
This intrigue with the number 23 has roots in artistic and literary circles, popularized by figures like William S. Burroughs and artist Brion Gysin. It is often interpreted as synchronicity, a psychological phenomenon, or a personal symbol tied to the mystery of existence.
▒▒▒▒ Photo Playlist ▒▒▒▒
Electronic music in all its forms — from shadowy waves to luminous disco and ambient soundscapes — resonates with my photography. Each track becomes a theme song for an image, pairing sound and vision to amplify or contrast mood. The Photo Playlist is a living archive, continuously evolving, echoing the atmospheres behind the images.
Expect a journey through darker electronic moods — darkwave, coldwave, post‑punk revival, EBM, and electroclash — balanced with lighter currents like Italo disco, synthpop, ambient, chillout, and cosmic soundscapes. Occasional detours into industrial, drone, and neo‑classical textures expand the palette.