My best friend Katrin and her boyfriend Micha are going to get married in May next year. Fot the wedding invitation cards they needed a picture, so when they visited me in November we went for a little walk. We didn’t have a lot of time since the sun was already going down but I think we got some cute shots though.

This is probably going to be my last post for this year, so Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to all of you.

In September I went on a trip through Southengland with a friend, starting in London. We spent lots of money shopping and seen lots of places. We even rented a car, which I had to drive – on the left side! Gladly this worked out better than I expected.
Anyway, here are pictures from where we’ve been.

London


This little squirrel in Hyde Park let me get so close. It was busy eating his nut…

Brighton

Bristol

Bath

Stonehenge

Oxford

About two weeks ago I got to do a little photoshoot with my friend Nadine and her boyfriend Roy. They really are the cutest couple ever, I love every single picture I took of them. So here are a few of my favs…

Actually we got together that day because Nadine asked me to take pictures of her parents for their silver wedding. So that’s what we did for the most part. Nadines brother and his girlfriend tagged along too for a little while so whe got some family pictures as well…

I can’t wait to edit the rest of the pictures but since my laptop is dying on me I have to wait until I get my new one – which is gonna be in 2 days. I’m so excited to finally be able to edit without any hardware troubles…

About 2 weeks ago I met my friend Katrin, whom I haven’t seen in almost a year, to take pictures of her 17months old son Justin. Her boyfriend Mike came along too for some family shots as well. We had a great time and I finally was able to find out how much fun it can be to shoot a toddler who’s already able to walk (away from me ;-) ). But Justin, being a really sweet kid, didn’t mind my camera at all and let me take some really sweet memories for his parents.

I’ve taken so many pictures and I’m still working my way through all of them. It’s really hard to pick some favorites because they’re all wonderful.

Anyway, enough talking. It’s time for some pics.

Justin didn’t really like to be picked up. Walking and exploring the park on his own was so much more fun. So I’m glad I got at least one shot with mommy and daddy each.  Only seconds later he struggled his way down again ;-)

I’m gonna have to stop now. There are still tons of pictures I’ll have to edit. You can see a few more at my flickr.

“The Emily series” part 2… The pictures are 2 months old already but better late than never.

Here we go…

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And this would be my personal favorite:5monate_img_9047_b_500

Gosh, I might be the worst blogger ever!

Little Emily was born on July 28, 2008 and I haven’t even posted one picture of her – not here at least. So now, get ready for some newborn cuteness!

This is Emily at the age of 8 days with her Mommy Katja8tage_img_7758_honey

and Daddy Jens…8tage_img_7639_honey

And what’s cuter than little hands and feet?8tage_img_76258tage_img_7609_honey

Ok, fast forward to Emily at 6 weeks…

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Ok, I guess that should be enough of baby cuteness. Stay tuned for some almost up-to-date shots. I’ll post them tomorrow (maybe).

For now I’m off to bed. Good night!

Here’s a little sneek peak of Tia, who I met about 2 weeks ago on my trip to Munich. She was 7 weeks old and so patient with me being not actually a baby photographer!

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The pictures were all taken in the parents bedroom which was not lit very well. I tried to make the best out of it though and hope the parents, Sylvi and Christian, are still happy with the results…

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This is probably my personal favorite shot. I like the blown out background from shooting against the window… And Tia surely liked my little basket (or whatever you might call that) and the soft blanket that I brought along!

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I still haven’t posted anything of my first baby model Emily. Will do that later this week – hopefully!

These guys are some kind of brass band. One of them, Sebastian – the sax player, is one of my best friends. They asked me to take some new portraits and promo pictures for their website. So on my vacation 2 months ago we finally managed to get together and take a few shots. The guys didn’t have as much time as I thought and hoped so I could only realize a few of the ideas I had in mind. We still got a few nice shots. Here are some of my favorites…

This one I wanted to try for quite a while… I might  have to try again though.

The last one is another one with a texture. I really like how it frames the shot.

Due to lack of time I didn’t get as many shots as I liked. But I hope the guys still like the outcome. And I hope you – the 1 or 2 readers of this blog – do too  :-)

As I mentioned before I met another pregnant friend of mine. My best friend Katrin and I met up with Jule less than 2 weeks ago to get her some nice shots of her big round belly. When we saw her we could hardly believe that she still had 7 more weeks to go, because her belly was so huge already.
Well, let’s take a look at a few pictures…

Finally I could use my cute umbrella… I bought it for shootings like this but never actually got to use it until now.


… the rubber-ducks were Katrins idea. Gladly Jule actually had two of them because we didn’t. Lucky us!

Within my 2 weeks off, I went to Munich to visit my sister and a few friends. And I also had the opportunity to photograph another baby bump. Sylvi and Christian were my first bride and groom to shoot last year… And now they’re about to be a littly family in just a few weeks.
We went to a place that had been redesigned a few years ago for the BuGA, the German Federal Garden Show. We didn’t even had to go anywhere else because there were so many nice and creative backdrops.
Here’s a little sneak peak of what we got:


This one was Christian’s idea: … Can you believe those little shoes?
As you can see they sure liked to pose in front of the camera, especially Christian ;-)
And finally… This one is becoming one of my favourites.

So this is it for now. After Sylvi I met another pregnant friend of mine. And I met a gorgeous little girl, 8 days old. So stay tuned for more sneak peaks.