So only a quick note and a pic­ture We are totally dead from the last few days. Fri­day we had Ball at the dance school and on sat­urday we did a wed­ding in Wup­per­tal (only 300km from here). On sunday we had to clean up from fri­day and sort and organ­ize the files, Olga had to teach as usual. To make up a little for the loss of sleep we are off to bed early. With a bottle of white wine and the remote con­trol in the hand. Fit­ting to that I have for you all one pic­ture from the wed­ding. Talk to you all later!

For CMI (Con­tract Med­ical Inter­na­tional) I made in the past sev­eral products. Ran­ging from print through pho­to­graphy to their web­site. In the last few weeks updates have been done to their web­site. Products are now in sec­tions, lots of small pol­ish­ing and updat­ing now has been made easier for them. The site is run­ning on Word­Press, ori­gin­ally a blog sys­tem but it has matured over the years into an easy to use and more all round CMS sys­tem. It means less work for me but very con­veni­ent for the cus­tomer Our V-studio blog is also run­ning Word­Press by the way. If you have the need we can provide solu­tions based on Word­Press (or other web solu­tions) for you too. Just con­tact us at info [at] vstu​dio​-pho​to​graphy​.com and we are sure we can make you a nice offer!

Only after tak­ing down a wall the real work starts. Tak­ing out the trash. Not an easy task as the room is loc­ated on the third floor about 7 to 8 meters high… We ordered a con­tainer plus slide. Easy we thought just dump­ing the trash from the top through the slide into the con­tainer. Only there was one small prob­lem. We were not able to get the slide up The thing was so heavy that we man­aged no fur­ther than the second floor. As walk­ing down would not work for this amount we decided on the bucket-on-a-rope tech­nique. Not as easy as the slide but it worked very well! Olga broke the wall parts into smal­ler pieces, Pommy col­lec­ted that into the buck­ets and let them slide down. I had the honor of dump­ing it into the con­tainer. Pommy btw. was a very big help today, thank you very much!

As Olga also has to deliver a dress or two in the com­ing days we had help for that too, Susie and Angelika glued stones and flowers to 2 ball­room dresses. It’s great to count on friends! Thanks to them our stu­dio will be great, we are sure!
Oh, and last but not least… Ana­stasia took a few of the shots with DP1 and did it well! I think it will be hard for all of you to pick which is hers among those below.

Here is a little story about the birth of one of my cre­ations. It still fas­cin­ates me that in a short period of time a pile of dead mater­i­als becomes alive in a dress.

The shirt for the boy was also done by me to match the dress and make the look complete.

Thank you Bob for last 3 shots of the ready dress. It was middle of the night, I was sew­ing, glue­ing, fix­ing, fit­ting for more then 12 hours non­stop. So I was not able to hold the cam­era in my hands.

The details shots I took with DP1 (with and without macro lens) and SD14 with 50 EX Macro.

In the middle of all the stress I am con­tinu­ing mak­ing dresses. This is one of my latest dress cre­ations for one lovely lady from UK. I made already 3 dresses for her, so this one is her 4^th. Just a few snaps for my folio. Pic­tures taken in our new not yet ren­ov­ated stu­dio with new pro line flashes from Walimex.

Or bet­ter said, we’re break­ing down some walls We took down the wall between the 2 rooms that together will be the stu­dio. It is very bad for the cam­era, lots of dust! But we still snapped a few of course.