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Hamburg, April 16th 2012.

Two weeks ago I had a family portrait shooting. It was my first time making photos with kids and I had a lot of fun. And I think Leo did too.
If you think you’ve seen these faces before, it’s because you actually have. I photographed Lorena and Dennis wedding almost two years ago.
So enjoy the photos, I hope you like them as much as I do.

As promised I’ve got some more photos from Sylt to share with you. As it turns out there will even be a third part with photos from the oyster farm we visited. I want to post them in a separate entry to not mix things up too much.

Yesterday I discovered the work of David Chancellor, especially his project on „the complex relationship that man has with animal in sub Saharan Africa, seen through the eyes of the tourist trophy hunter“. The documentary work is amazing and the topic very interesting.
So far the project was completely self funded by David. To print a limited edition of 2000 copies in cooperation with an dutch fine art publisher he needs the support of the photographic community. So I pledged $75 what will get me a signed 1st edition book as soon as it’s published. What hopefully will be in October.

Go on, watch the video below and support this great project.

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Last week Panasonic invited me and a bunch of others to Sylt to test the new Panasonic Lumix G5. In on it were Stefan Groenveld, Torsten Muehlbacher, Michael Kirchner, Felix Meyer, Marcel Wichmann, Manfred Huszar and Christoph Boecken.

As last year on Mallorca, where we layed our hands on the G3, it was a lot of fun and perfectly organized by JDB – thanks to Catie.
We had two days packed with sun, rain, wind and a lot of activities. Thank you Panasonic!

I have to say I like Sylt and would like to go back there to photograph more of the landscape and the people. It’s an interesting mix.

Short review of the Lumix G5

The Lumix G5 is a really good camera in it’s market. It sits perfectly in my rather small hands and after knowing the Lumix G3 I was really quickly comfortable using it. The AF is fast and the electronic shutter is completely silent. That makes this camera perfect for shooting completely unnoticed. Combined with the brilliant 20mm f/1.7 pancake lens it’s a small, light and very fast camera.
I can’t say much about the image quality because I’m not able to process the RAW files, yet. The JPGs look good, though.

If you are in the game of buying a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera, definitely have a closer look at this one.

Shooting square format right out of the camera is what I really like and what my X100 isn’t able to do. So I took the opportunity and only shot squares on Sylt.

But now let’s look at some images I shot with it on the first day. I will post photos from day two in a separate entry. As I said these are JPGs, processed in Lightroom.

Had a pretty heavy rain shower today here in Hamburg. I snapped this one out of my window which was open all the time. I like the sound and the smell of the rain, especially if it was warm before. Have a nice sunday evening.

Yesterday we released a new version of the QUOTE.fm bookmarklet. It looks better, gives more information about the article you are going to recommend and generally behaves more like the rest of QUOTE.fm. In the future it’ll also give you the ability to read an article now or later and even send it to your Kindle.

To use the all new bookmarklet you don’t need to do anything. Just use it like before, it’s automatically updates to the newest version.

The summer in Hamburg is finally here – at least for a few days. So yesterday we decided to have a small barbecue celebrating our QUOTE.fm iPad app beta. I had a hard time deciding between processing the photos in color or black and white. I went with the latter as you can see. I think it’s harder to take and develop a good black and white image but I think it turned out well. Stay with me or just wait until Marcel posts his color photos from yesterday afternoon.