We met Luzie and Christos at the barrier lake to photograph their engagement session. We wanted to go to the big beach. It was a perfect cloudy afternoon and we were sure nobody would be hanging at the beach so we would have all the beach for ourselves. And we were right, there […]

Right before the weekend I have a little pearl for you: the wedding of Katinka and Marcus. Their wedding was just perfect: everything on one location, except for the most beautiful small church, warm weather and a small group of family and friends around them during the day. They wanted a super relaxed day for everyone and so they just had planned everything that suited them. After the personal civil ceremony at their wedding location they cut their wedding cake and a bottle of champagne followed by a super relaxed walking dinner and the church ceremony right with the most beautiful evening light to have some portraits taken. It was just the perfect relaxed wedding they always wanted and we couldn't be more happy to be part of this day.

Today 5 years ago it was the same sunny weather when I walked into the local town hall of our village. I was there early as my friends Eva and Reinhold got married that day and I was their proud witness. I walked into the trade office on the ground floor, I knocked on the door and said "Good morning I want to open a business". The two friendly men looked at me head to toe dressed up like someone who would go to a wedding (of course I was dressed up like going to a wedding that day, they just didn't know). And so within just 30 minutes I had a sheet of paper in my hands where it was written down in black letters and sealed with an ink blue signature that I just opened a business for photography. The two friendly men from the trade office and me sh0oke hands and just in that moment I saw Eva and Reinhold arrive in front of the town hall and I said to them "So good bye, I have to go to the registry office now. My friends outside are getting married now and I will be the witness." "Well you planned your appointments well at the town hall, Miss", one of the men said and we laughed while I left their office.

What I am seeing with my "Bucket-before-30-list" is that since I wrote those things down I try really to accomplish them. So after visiting the Andreas Feininger exhibition last week we took the chance yesterday to prepare some fresh home made sushi. Since we live in a village we don't have fresh good fish every day. On Tuesdays and Fridays there is fresh fish on the local market so we can only make sushi on those two days.

"Would it be a nice idea to wear my moms wedding dress for the engagement session ?" Ulrike asked me in one of our many emails when we planned their session. You can imagine what my answer was. I loved that idea. Combined with our vintage navi blue couch in the studio and a dark backdrop we wanted to create a special picture that looked classic and stolen from another time. It was so much fun shooting with these two. After our indoor photoshoot we went into the fields that are close to our studio.

Those of you who follow my blog might have seen my „Bucket-before-30-list“. A list of tasks that I want to accomplish before turning 30 in July. One of the points were visiting the Andreas Feininger exhibition. Yesterday my friend Helen (you might remember her from the „Find the light videos“ ) took the […]