Happy new year, everyone!!!

For my first blogpost in 2017, I chose some of my favourite pictures from last year, which somehow I never got around to show you. In late September, on a really warm autumn evening I met with Viktoria, a model based in Leipzig. She was for work in Berlin, so we decided to meet for a spontaneous photo session. We wanted to shoot at the Gleisdreieck Park, an urban park in the heart of Berlin, that somehow never got as popular as the Tempelhofer Feld.

However, we met around 6pm, we were really late with the sun seting around 7pm in September. In the end we had around half an hour to shoot, trying to catch the fading light. But sometimes half an hour is all you need... In the end all that matters is that you go out and make the best of it.

Model: Viktoria Kortenhof

Luise

As you all know, Berlin was divided until the wall came down in 1989. And to celebrate the fall of the wall, the city got thousands of cherry trees as a gift by the Japanese people. These cherry trees were planted along the former Berlin wall strip. And what was once a place of guns, barbed wire and shooting orders, it is now a peaceful alley where people walk leisurely, picnic under the trees, hold hands. A sign of hope in this troubled world.

And in one of these alleys I photographed Luise and these are the pictures I show you today.

Fun in the sun

Two weeks ago I finally got myself the new lens I wanted for quite a while now, the Canon 24-70mm, that is fantastic, especially for weddings. And what better way to test it than with a patient sister and her boyfriend, parents' green garden, loads of sun, and family around as the lightning team?! Chaos and near-sunstrokes, but good memories and lots of laughter! 

the dancers

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”

Charles Bukowski

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Models: Tanja Prinz, Bec Staxx