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Stefan Simonsen is a Hannover (Germany) based photographer and photojournalist, working for newspapers, news agencies, companies and also private People. He covers a wide range of photography from journalism, coverage, corporate photography to portraits and lifestyle photography.

New blog layout is online!

Hi friends and followers, it was really a shame looking at my english blog over the last year. I hated the design, but don’t wanted to put it offline because of the written posts. And  I still got many comments for some posts. But I hardly had time to redesign the blog and also felt that it has to fit my personality so no designer should work on it. On top I made a lot of decisions in the last…

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Testing the D7000 with Photos and HD-Movie – including YouTube video!

Some weeks ago I bought the new Nikon D7000. I have been long enough…uhm… jealous of owners of the D3s or Canon 5DmkII/1DmkIV, who were able to make HD video clips in a stunning cinematic look by using lenses with wide open apertures. After watching hundreds of videos on YouTube and Vimeo (especially this video made me sit in front of my iMac like dogs waiting for lunch) my excitement aroused and I felt the “Wanna Have” in my brain a bit…

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Proof of life

Hello world! It’s over seven months now (woah, that’s more than half a year!) after my last blog post in english and I’m very sorry for that. But time flew away over the last half-year like never in my life. I had to make some really important decisions for my future (e.g. if I move for the news agency to Regensburg in Bavaria, 250 Miles from Hanover, where I live) and had to rule how to go on as a…

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An afternoon with Sandra and Stephan

Hi, finally there is some time to write a new blog post. The last weeks have been very exhausting. Appointments for news agencies in politics and miscellaneouses, two concerts (STING and Green Day – both really awesome!) and assignments for companies† – wished the days had 48 hours A small ray of hope was an engagement shooting I did with Sandra and Stephan two weeks ago. It was my only really free day in two weeks, but I was happy…

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Wedding photo shoot with Caroline and Helmut

The last saturday was very cold, grey and uncomfortable. But for Caroline and Helmut it was their wedding day and they were happy. After their town hall wedding and a first champagne reciption at a boat on the Lake “Maschsee” they met Steffi and my humble self to take some pictures. We had only three hours left to take the photos at two location in Hanover and an old witch tower from the medieval in Marienwerder near Hanover before they…

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