tom.photo | thomas karner

1967: Born in January
1973: First own camera as a gift from Dad
1993: Birth of FELIX, the world's best son!

" I really don't know photography, I just pretend I do..."
It's not technology or technique, but what you make of it! Of course, every photographer should have a sound set of technical skills to work from, but as soon as he's internalized these skills, he has to start probing his limits, stretching them, and eventually breaking through them! Nothing else will result in true progress...

”I'm really a Rock Star deep inside!” , except that my talent is in photography, not singing... ;-) ... meaning, I live for the "show moments"! For MY photographs, and for MY emotions! My photographs are my life! Through them, I express my deepest "downs" and my highest "highs". I live for and through my photography....ALL OR NOTHING!

“You photographers...what a pity!" - quote: pia-maria
„photographers that picture women have a special affinity for the female gender and for beauty. Very few men emphatize with and observe women as thorougly as you do, in a certain way it's simply voyeuristic. Unconciously, this also has an effect on your behavior. You see women very differently than "normal" men do... I've never met a photographer that wasn't nuts in some way. You see life through a lens. It's somewhat narrow-minded, but in a very special way...."

...and I have nothing to add to that :-)

dedicated to my beloved son FELIX, the “big inspiration”
& to all the people who love me & my pictures

love & respect