Ella chairing

Took some pictures of Ella sitting in our new chair. Taken with my D700 and my 70-200 2.8.

Pippi Ella

My daughter Ella got dressed up as Pippi Långstrump for Fasching. Taken with my D700 and 50mm 1.8. More pictures from the series can be seen here:

Sweden pictures

During my summer vacation I also spent a week at my grandmother’s place. During my stay there was an old timer car show with mostly old American cars: My grandmother also turned 94 during my stay (which was the main reason for my trip): And of course I also took some pictures of my family:

Heidelberg-Wanderung

Together with a friend of Anna’s, Anna, Stephan and I went for a short hike outside of Heidelberg in July:

felix the cat

felix is my uncle’s new maine coon kitten. taken with my tamron 90mm and d700.

Flogathe visiting

Flogathe came to visit and got not only coffee, but also carrot cake: 😉

Andrei Ivanov

A picture of my good friend and fellow musician Andrei taken in a St. Petersburg cafe not far from Moskovskii Vokzal. The picture itself is taken in 2009 with my favorite portrait lens (Tamron 90mm f2.8) on my D700 with an off-camera flash firing through a soft box (Lumiquest SoftBox III). For another picture of…Continue reading Andrei Ivanov

Back in Mannheim

Some pictures from this year’s second trip to Mannheim – instead of rain it was hoooooooot. But I did walk around and was thus able to reminisce about when I lived there in the early 1980s…

St. Hans pictures

Here are some pictures from this years St. Hans fire by Gentofte Sø:

interesting articles

since some may not have noticed, i have not been on facebook since last november. 😀 for those who still want to get a glimpse of newspaper articles i think are interesting and have been reading lately (which i used to post to my facebook wall), there is a remedy – my instapaper starred items…Continue reading interesting articles

New pictures from the past couple of months

I finally finished going through the pictures I took during the last couple of months. First a couple of pictures from my Berlin visit last December: In May I went on a very short trip to one of my old “home” towns, Mannheim, as well as Frankfurt (where I met Yogi for dinner): Right after…Continue reading New pictures from the past couple of months

Berlin, Obama and Russendisko

i just spent 2 1/2/ weeks vacationing in berlin. while primarily uneventful, i did attend obama’s speech at the siegessäule – which was kind of disappointing. after reading about his charisma and aim to overcome partisan divides the reality presented an eloquent politician giving a well formulated speech which main message was for everybody to…Continue reading Berlin, Obama and Russendisko