Breakfast at Tiffany's? Forget it

Breakfast at the lake in Neutraubling is much better! I stayed at the "Hotel am See" for a weekend of my friends wedding in July 2014. 

Details of Wood 3

Details of Wood 2

Details of wood 1

A banana forest in the city

Hey there. Yes I'm still alive, but everyday life has gotten the better of me and this blog. Anyway, the forest you see is not far from my dwellings situated right in the middle of Karlsruhe, in the city's botanical garden. I love this place. 

Karlsruhe Castle in beautiful evening light

Hey there, still alive. Life got in the way of blogging. Can't promise anything but hopefully I'm back to it. Cause I've missed you. 

We had joy, we had fun, we had bikes in the sun

I wish you all a wonderful weekend. 

In Karlsruhe the sun will hopefully come out, all that grey weather lately has been depressing. However it is very uplifting to see, me and my blog haven't been forgotten. Cheers to all my friends out there!

Urban Art Leipzig - Plagwitz

The writing on the wall isn't there any more since May or so. The house is being redeveloped.

Water lilies at Karlsruhe Botanical Garden

Urban Art in Karlsruhe (Post 750)

I'm currently flat-hunting in Karlsruhe and after viewing one of the possible flats I saw this wonderful mural. Isn't it absolutely fantastic?!

Wine Line

By the sea

I would love to be.

Have a great day.

Wedding hairdo

So this Saturday my best friend A married S. I was there as a friend and their event photographer. The formal wedding pictures were taken by the lady photographer, who also did my portrait shooting, she's great.

Anyway, a June wedding called for a dress with a hat or a fascinator. Since I couldn't find a nice sunhat which left me abled to shoot at the same time while wearing it (I need to see and don't want the rim of my hat on every picture, now do I?), I looked for a fascinator and luckily I found the perfect Alice band. It looks fabulous, but isn't exactly comfy, I had to take it off halfway through the evening.

The wedding party was fabulous and the shooting went quite well. I've had tons of fun using the Canon Rebel 450D. While before I only wanted it because of it's name, now I know for certain that it is the right camera for me. It has the right weight, it is beautifully balanced and just all around fun to shoot with. All in all I took about 600 pictures in 9 hours of celebrating the wedding of A+S. So, the next two weeks I will plough through the pictures, throw out the trash, cut the rest and then create one or more slideshows for my friends.

Another thing I learned was that it is a BAD idea to wear heels when one has to shoot a whole wedding party. My feet hurt so much on Sunday that I drove my bike 7 km to my coffee shop to eat breakfast there, instead of making an omelette at home! Yeah, such are the sacrifices of a photographer friend. (I know now, why a good wedding photographer costs so much. It's darn hard work.)

Oh and the helium voice is truly hilarious. Yes we had balloons so I had to try it. ;-)

Wintersun

The BIG NEWS revealed:

Entrance to the Karlsruhe Zoo (No, this is not my new work place!)

As you might have realized this blog has been relatively quiet. However I have a very, very, very good reason for it:

I will move to Karlsruhe at the end of June, because on July 2nd I will start in my new job, which is THE job at THE organization. Naturally I'm really excited about this opportunity, this change.

So right now I'm quite busy with wrapping up projects here in Leipzig and preparing for the move. I still have to find a room for the first three months, but I don't consider it a challenge since the summer holidays come up and a lot of the students will sublet their rooms.

Karlsruhe is a beautiful city in my opinion and has a good size. Throughout the last three years I've visited a lot of german cities and most of them I found pretty ugly and I wouldn't want to work or live there, like the Ruhrpott (Yes, it's more than one city, I know that.) or Berlin.

My personal Top 5 of german cities worth living in:

1. Stralsund
2. Leipzig
3. Dresden
4. Potsdam
5. Karlsruhe

Anyway, I've got a busy afternoon ahead of me.

Have a great new week everyone.


PS: I'll put up some postcard sets on my DaWanda-Shop. Since I'm drowning in postcards due to the non-sales-market, ahh, I mean market research market. ;-) Somehow I always knew that markets aren't the right place to sell my art. But one has to try out different things, doesn't one?

This is what I like about Leipzig

Views like this right in the city. As a matter of fact this is just a 12 minute walk from my doorstep.

What's brewing on the horizon?

Still nothing is fixed on paper so I can't tell yer, but it's only a matter of days now...

Urban Art - Walking Up

Is this art or a joke? Personally I found it hilarious.

Enjoy your Sunday and have a great new week.

Moritzburg Bliss

Great news ahead, but again until I have everything in black and white I won't talk.

Foggy Sun