team up thursday - week 14

Here we go again - its "TUT"-time - team up thursday and this week we have strangers....
Fist thought of myself was - whats difficult and tough to take a photo of strangers as everyone you don't know is a stranger - but - hehe - that wasn't that easy. I went to the city center last friday to stroll  and thought I should take a photo of people passing by - but not as easy as thought. Did a few but was not happy with them and then I saw that old man sitting there- a basket in front of himself with a note: Thanks for your support - and I thought: Shall i support him with money or shall I bring him a roll or something to eat? And you know what? I did nothing as I saw that he opened a plastic bag and there were bottles and bottles of alcohol in it - beer, schnaps, wine....

So here we go:

This are "Marcelles strangers":

Its a perfect captured - and I really mean captured - photo. Look at the old lady - and her husband (think he is- lol). Sometimes I love to think about what people think or talk in those moments - are they talking about their day - their children - about the weather or whatever...
I also love all the natural things Marcelle has in her photo - the stones - the wood - the old wall of (I think) a castle or something like this... WELL DONE MARCELLE !!!!

My days are filled with being a "mommy" to Max and Ben

How life can change in a second - how life can change when you decide to give two gorgeous puppies a new home.
Believe me or not - I have no more time for myself - i am busy like hell with the new family members - looking for them - give them their meals - entertain them - play with them - walking them - cleaning the floors because of little mishaps :)  - trying to get the doggies to sleep....
I think it takes time to get a routine for my days now and right now Ben and Max need a lot of time and love - away from mum and dad - away from common places - away from lordling and mistress - new mistress and lordling - new home....
Right now they are downstairs and asleep - yipeeeh - after playing in the garden for an hour - and it will give me an hour to do my things I have to do - and the first thing is doing an entry here.

Here are some photos of the "little wee ones"

My little puppies - BEN and MAX - Saturday

This is my 100 th post - didn't think I would do it ....

I am a little proud of myself as I never expected to do this blog in a (kind of) regular basis. Nevertheless I have to say that I am going to change my challenge - the 365 days with Philippina - blog. I think I have some news for you when I tell you that I am proud "mommy" of two labrador retrievers for exacly 48 hours now and they keep me sooo busy right now - Its like having two babies ( I think so) and for that reason I think I won't have the time to show Philippina around - instead I will have two new "models" - BEN and MAX.
Ben is born on May 4th and Max on April 17th this year and they give me a feeling I never had before. The feeling of "I am desperately needed" - oh how I love that. And even in the moment they keep me busy with teaching them to give signs when they need to pee and to poo - and everything else.
So please forgive me Philippina - maybe I can continue next year - my new challenge is "My first 365 days with Ben and Max"

Photos will follow tomorrow.... and link will be shown as well

Tomatoes....

... I was asked to "create" a photo with tomatoes - this is what I did and honestly I like it and think about printing it on canvas to hang it up in my kitchen...

Wishing everyone a great weekend - ours seems to be a wet one - it is raining cats and dogs here and I cannot imagine having sun tomorrow (as the forecast said).

Team up thursday - week 13

 This weeks' theme is chosen by me and it is: STONES....

This is what came to Marcelles mind: Isn't it AMAZING???????

I love the naturalness and the colours of Marcelles photo - big ones and small ones - thick ones and flat ones - its no natural! See how different the colours are - even they are not in such different colours - a very "warm coloured photo".
I think stones like in that photo can be soooo beautiful - how often do I walk by those stones without recognizing them. Beautiful shot Marcelle - WELL DONE!!!!


Mine is a little boring as  I was sooo busy lately and I had to do lots of work - that means (and I hate it to say again) I didn't had the time  I wanted to spend  in this weeks theme so here we go:

 Achim and I bought this stones in South America last year when we were on holidays - they are pretended to be gemstones - okay I have no clue if they are or not. I simply love the colours and the pattern.

"Here we are together":
 

Couldn't decide which photo I should choose

Philippina keeps me busy and I nearly forget to do my own blog entry....

Tomorrow's TUT-day again and I think its the 13th week Marcelle and I are doing this. I have to say if I wouldn't have Marcelle as my partner I think two or three weeks I would have taken a "break" but so there is a kind of "pressure" behind which makes that project special.... Sometimes I need a little pressure....

So here I show a little review of all the themes we already did:

My 365 days challenge started on August 1st.....

....and I have a "partner" who is called "Philippina" - a cutie and smartie - please check "her blog"

Philippina

So I really hope I can make it - 365 days = 365 photos with Philippina = one photo each day - whether it is sunday or holiday or what ever day.....

I had a very busy week - have had friends and family at home since thursday and you all know what that means: a day before they arrive you have to clean and make the beds and and and - then when they are with you you have to run around and serve and bring and do.... the day they leave you have to clean and change the beds again - loads of washing in the machine but nevertheless: I had a great time and thats what counts, isn't it?

Will be back to "normal" tomorrow - this evening we are celebrating the 75th birthday of my mother in law and tomorrow after ironing all those tons of washing I will be "back"

Hope you all had a great weekend as well - weather was fine on saturday and sunday and I didn't believe because on friday it rained a lot (again) and even at midnight it didn't stop and the sky was cloudy and grey. Woke up saturday to a beautiful blue sky - wohooo..... sometimes "little things" can make us happy - like the weather.....

team up thursday - chairs

This weeks' theme is chosen by Marcelle and it's CHAIRS

Marcelles photo is great and it reminds me of the "good old times" when we spent our holidays with camping.... That were times and I can't remember how often I fell off from these charis as they were not very steady and robust.

And look thos colors and the pattern - weren't they exactly those from the good old "late 70th"??? Great memories.

My photo is from a very old chair - where my granddad used to sit on. He had it in front of his desk and sat there for hours and hours while doing the accouning (when he had his bakery) and later for his diary entries (when he was retired). I think this chair could tell stories about my granddad's thoughts (which he sometimes spoke out).

I can remember exactly (I must have been about 10 years old) that I told my granddad if he doesn't need his chair and deks anymore I would love to have it in my room (I didn't think in that way that he somedays will die - it was just a thought of a child)...

Later when I  moved to Munich and my grandparents visited me my granddad asked me if I still am interested in the chair and the desk - my chin fell off - never thought that he would remember my saying years ago.

I nodded and told him that I would love to have it in my flat but I would love it much more if he would use it for the next 30 yeas. He grinned and replied: " I try to"..... In the end he used that chair and desk more than 15 years after he asked me and when he had to go to the nursery home he always told my granddad, my aunt and my dad that chair and desk will move to Munich.... And so it happened years ago.....

Sometimes I "see" my granddad sitting in this chair with his cute smile - telling me: Its not just the chair and the desk who is with you - its me also....." And I believe in that. WILL ALWAYS LUV YA GRANDDAD AND WILL NEVER FORGET YOU!!!!

So this week its interesting what our photos could tell - great thoughts - great memories and a little sadness  those times are "over"....

Sometimes it's "scary" how Marcelle and I think alike - you might think: Why alike? Those chairs? They are totally different - and you may be right - but they both are "old" - so again we though in similar ways....

.... my photoshooting part II

So after the gig of "ICH + ICH" the "show" went on.... there was a DJ and some dancing girls and boys around - very nice to look at ..... later on they had a band called " Scooter" (they are well known in Germany also) and I was asked to come backstage again as I had to take some photos with them and the people of the event.

What can I say about a 12 hours photoshooting??? It is very very - and I mean very very stressful and tiring - even you have some moments which are special (for example meeting and chatting with the bands you normally see in front of your TV). I was always looking for scenes to take photos of 

- no problem when there was something going on on stage - but it was a huge venue so I had to run from point A to point B and back - always thinking while being on point A that I miss something special on point B......  And honestly there is a little challenge between the photographers - even they disagree - everyone wants to make some special shots.

At two o clock I did a mistake - I took a seat for a few moments (I knew that it has been an afterwork party and most of them will wear something nice - so as I had to "work" I wore a beige trousers and a blouse but got asked to wear a t-shirt which said: " Ich bin ein Feierbiest" - (I am a party chick) and a " 07:00" - means I shouldn't leave before 07.00 o clock in the morning..... and I wore no sports shoes - I wore some "nice" shoes with a heel....... So after I took the seat and I got up again - my poooooooor feet!!!!! I swore to myself not taking a seat anymore that evening (that morning)

After I did the photoshooting backstage with Scooter I went around and took photos and around 06.00 o clock in the morning I packed my photobag and asked for a taxi - sun was almost out then  and when I came home at 06.30 I was sooo "under pressure" that I couldn't get my mind to rest.... So it took me more than an hour to sleep and woke up at 10.00 o clock again...... 

Here are some impressions of that great event:

What a weekend - and its almost over

.... shewww - again its sunday evening and I ask myself where the time has gone. I had a really tough weekend.

 Friday I left house at 06.00 pm in the evening on my way to the venue of the photoshooting I was aked to do. Arrived at 06.30 pm and immediately had my camera in front of my eyes and started to take photos. At 08.00 am I was asked by Karen (she is the one who hired me for this job) to come backstage to "Ich + Ich" to take some photos with Adel Tawil (the singer of the band) and her and her boss..... No question I was with her.

We were introduced to Adel and talked very nice with him - a very nice and handsome man - no allures - really normal and then we took some photos backstage.

At 09.00 pm he started to sing with his band and I took some photos - was a good concert and about 60 mins - he sang all his well known songs and some of the new album I didn't heard before.

Here we have two of my favrourite songs: Take a "click" and take a "listen".....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-FIS680Iok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoX45XOhyKw

will post more about my weekend tomorrow...

Wishing everyone a lovely weekend - I am off and will be back Sunday 

Wasps and flowers.....

So and here we have the weekend again - yesterday I visited my friend and she has visitors in her garden::

I LOVE the photo in the middle - a funny one :)

And what do I have in my garden? Flowers :)

Oh no - I can see a bee......

I have a tough photoshooting to do this evening - an afterwork party with lots of bands and one famous german band "Ich und Ich" (which I like very much) and today I got told that the party is going to end up at 07.00 am saturday morning with a breakfast - and I was asked to do photos as long as I can.....

Team up thursday

Here we go again - team up thursday - another thursday with another theme which is chosen by me:

HEARTS

I exactly knew which photo I wanted to show this week but inspired by Marcelle (again) I thought I should not take a look in my folders and search for a photo - I think all team up thursday photos should be acually ones.

So  the day before yesterday when I went for a little walk in our close forest with my neighbour I found my HEART:

I am sure you might think that I missed the theme  - but take a second look. I nearly passed that tree and then immediately turned and thought - yes - thats MY HEART for this weeks theme. I have to say  originally (the tree) you see it a little better. But isn't it funny how nature shows itself sometimes?

This is our diptych:

And here we have "Marcelle's heart":

Again I have to say I am totally in love her photo - my first thought is she should print it on canvas (as her photo last week) or at least she should offer it to sell...... what a perfect moment  - full of love and heart:

Head off Marcelle - you are doing such a great job - I am blown away. Just the idea to take a photo of the brides backside and with this heart-balloon - photo all in b/w and only the red heart is devastatingly!!!! WELL DONE AGAIN MARCELLE

On the run again.....

.... seems I don't have time for me and my beloved photography anymore.... So much to do and to arrange these days...And I hate taking photos with the thought in my mind I should used that time for other things - but on tuesday I have been hired by some tourists who did white water rafting and I was asked to take some photos from the waterside.
As these tourist were "private" I cannot post photos where their faces are shown - so just one from the boat and one from the walk around.

Day "x" has come.......

.....and I cannot believe that my neighbours and close friends will move to Essen today - I think I told before we are friends for more than 12 years now and neighbours for 6 years and although we haven't met every day it was such a great relationship. 

Their children are in Essen already - they were picked up by friends yesterday evening and they took them to their house for the next week. When they came to say goodbye we all cried and they came 3 times to say goodbye! You really felt that they didn't want to go - didn't want to realize that they are now 600 km away and didn't want to say goodbye.

We had a nice evening with our neighbours yesterday - talked about "good old times" and had laughters and then again tears in our eyes but I think the big "Goodbye" this evening will break my heart.

I always find it harder for those who stay - for the others a new challenge starts - they have so much to organize - everything is new and there is excitement all over.

For those who stay they are reminded often - house all empty and windows closed - but we now have a new challenge too. We bought that half of the house in addition to ours and from next week in there are several things to do - like two new windows - house has to be painted - balcony has to be modernized and and and... Nevertheless it will always be the "Schwarzens House" (Their last name is Schwarz  - that means black and they are often called "Blackies" by us)

Its funny to see how your life "disappears" step by step in this cardboards...

This is not my neighbour - its one of the "relocation-people"

I did a photobook for them with all events and holidays we did together - new years eve, skiing, barbeque-ing,

birthday parties, walks, cycle tours and I am waiting impatiently for the book to arrive as I've ordered it 2 weeks ago and was told that it was posted on thursday. Normally it takes just one week to be  produced and sent over. But due to the fact there are holidays now they told me that it might take a little longer to produce.

So hopefully the postman will ring soon :)

A short hello from Munich......

I just want to say a short "hello" - have been to the city center yesterday and climbed  306!!!!!!!! steps to get this view. I've done that a few times and every time I think its worth that "workout". But yesterday I gasped like hell and 3 times I thought I will go back again but finally I arrived at the platform. And see - what a beautiful view we have from there.

Have a sunny sunday all :)

TgiF.......

....and again a whole week passed by - holy moly these times are flying.... Just came home from a nice run and now off to shower and then doing the grocery shopping - this evening we are invited by neighbours for a birthday party and I have offered to prepare two desserts. I will do a fruit yoghurt with lots of fresh berries and will bake some letters which say " Happy birthday Susanne"
Saturday we will have the last evening with our friends and neighbours as sunday, monday and tuesday they are in the middle of their move to Essen. Hope for my photobook to arrive these days as I sent it 10 days ago and normally they are done in 7 days - but as there is holiday season there might be a "traffic jam" :)

When we went to Tegernsee on monday I took the photo below and I had to laugh about that as I checked it here on my computer. I for sure saw the dog but didn't recognized that the was sitting in the shadow while the woman sat in the sun - what a difference. Dog is looking for shadow while "mommy" wants to sit in the sun - hehe....

Did a photoshooting of a girl this week - this is little Katharina:

And did a photoshoot of another "girl" this week - this is Ute: