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New video online – Part 2 of the photo shoot with Anouk

Hi there, hope you had nice early spring days with some time for photos in the warm sun I had a very busy week with travelling to Berlin at Tuesday, a visit at Joe McNally’s workshop in Hamburg (northern Germany) on Thursday (Joe was really humorous and made me laugh a lot) and a seven hours business assignment on saturday where I had to wake up at 5.45 AM. But the people there were great and we got some very…

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Portrait photo shoot with Mareike in freezing cold

It was ice-cold and windy yesterday afternoon. At least we had a long time of sunshine and blue sky between snow showers† just while I photographed the beautiful Mareike. But the freezing was worth it We knowing each other for years now and never did a photo shoot although we had wanted it for a long time. Recently she is studying far away and is not often in Hanover anymore. So we used the only time we had yesterday afternoon…

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Portraits with american conductor Karen Kamensek

Today I had a very nice photo shoot in Hanover with Karen Kamensek, a very talented and beautiful conductor with american roots. The Chicago-born Karen is designated to be the first female grand music director of the Lower Saxony State Orchestra in 374 years of history since they were established! Today they officially nominated and presented her to the local press in the presence of some important people – and some local photographers like me…

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New video online: Photoshoot on water after sunset

I have been somewhat creative this weekend and uploaded another video of the politicians series for the newspaper In this short clip you can see me taking photos of Thomas Iseke. I wanted to show the politicians not typically but more private. So Steffi and I met him in his hometown at the “Lake Steinhude”, the biggest lake in northern Germany, right before sunset. I had a picture in mind with him sitting on a landing stage right above the…

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