I’m pleased to announce that Mark Mertens at amprojects.be is now representing this series exclusively in Europe and beyond for resale. I always loved Marks sensibility in creating the most fantastic spaces for residences and commercial projects and see how this series fits into the overall aesthetics and color palette.

j’attend le weekend, et le piscine…

Sometimes I just love random quotes…

I always hated those obnoxious, huge, heavy (and white) lenses. Never shot with them, hate the focal length, you get my drift.

But i had to get one for a shoot on a movie set that i was doing for the last month (in case you missed me).

And i have to say i’m flored, it’s still heavy white and enormous, but the image quality, handling and pure genius that allows low light photography at exposure times previously unheard of, is pure magic. I got fantastic shots with 200mm at 1/20sec, various ISO, super low light on the film set, at night, i still can’t believe it. I actually prefered the lens over the much lighter 24-105 lens i used on the other camera, just due to the stabilizing abilities and the rendition of the scene.

It will be some time till i can post a gallery on the site, the client is getting proofs today and the movie is supposed to be done by the fall.

So here we go, the site is up. The portfolios and some pictures need some more work but the basics are there…

blog, bio to follow soon

After some quality time with Dreamweaver I’m much smarter about the ins and outs of web design, content and theory, but will never become a web designer, now it’s time for a new site with new features.

I did some research over the summer and after looking very deep into livebooks, clickbooq, I decided the best solution for me is to work with Photofolio. I does everything I need, it’s straight forward, but complex enough to accommodate my vision and present my images in an uncluttered and professional way.

I guess I’m not taking any phone calls until this is done; my guess is by the end of the week the framework is up and by the end of next week I’ll start inviting people.

I fully expect to grow the possibilities over the next couple of month, but the new portfolio with new images shot in the recent past (on and off crutches) is on it’s way.

Finally I get around to work on the new site. Now it’s all Dreamweaver designed, CSS styled and much deeper than ever before with a bio page, a client login area and links to photoshelter for some art and travel photography ready to license or print purchase, who knew.

Otherwise there’s still room to grow, looking forward to integrate the client preview pages, creating a print room to order some actual prints

What a week this was, had a great meeting to create images for a fashion designer. We actually want to make this a serial mailer and due to budget restrictions we decided to cut out the model, make up, hair department and shoot the outfits on a dress form. Can’t wait to shoot this…I got a call from the principal that night, that she loved my ideas and that i actually should create an Ad agency to do all the work on the project. Funny that there is the other flower client in Connecticut who want me to do the same…just online, we’ll see.
Interestingly enough that’s what happened at the first photographer that i assisted with, a year in we had our own little ad company, doing work for various german Fashion brands, and before you moan, BOSS and the Lagerfeld label was on the client list.

Otherwise we’re busy getting the finals retouched and uploaded for Chestnuts and updating the online system.

Today i met up with my old friend Julian Dufort. We met at Annie’s 10 years ago, he’s doing great now, shooting a lot in the UK and Germany, but published in the US quite frequently. He’s not giving up on film yet, even that he shoot a campaign right now with the P45+. We reconnected last year over an ebay ad, me selling my loved Fuji 690 kit, which he ended up buying. They’re his mainstay bodies and Fuji stopped making them a couple of years ago and i’m happy they found a great home with a friend.

Anyhow, due to Polaroid calling it a day, he now has to switch to Fuji-roid…Am i happy i switched to Canon and keep got so much better at the digital capture and post production early on.