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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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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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New video online – Strobist photoshoot in a harvested field

Hey ho, I just finished the upload for my new Behind the scenes Video (#5) on YouTube. The photo shoot was in late summer 2009 with Dorota Szymanska (you may know her from one of my earlier posts) and it was one of my first assignments I did with several Nikon Speedlites. It was a newspaper photo series of ten politicians for the election to the german parliament (Bundestag). For me it was a great experience, because I photographed ten…

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On assignment: The elephant’s robotic trunk

Today I was in Gˆttingen in the south of State Lower Saxony to photograph a just invented new robot. The scientists there named it the “robotic elephant’s trunk” because of the look and the same behavior that simulate an elephant’s trunk (surprise, surprise!). Okay, if you ever have seen something like CSI or movies that played in science laboratories you first would expect a very stylish ambient and think that photographers will be in heaven on an assignment in somewhat…

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