eurotrash, glowsticks and vodka cranberries...

after a couple of days of successful shooting it was about time for another great party at garfs... eurotrash was on and as i missed this party last year, it was about time for me to enter the world of glowsticks, eurotrash and vodka cranberries...

warmed up a bit at sushi village and had a great dinner there, went to garfs straight. the whole place was coverd with zillions of glowsticks and heavy eurotrash pumping from the speakers. we had some hard times, using all the drinking tickets that fabia gave us, somehow managed to get rid of them :)

thanks, fabia & COC for another brilliant party... thanks for the headache :)

bears... beers... baers...?

one of the best things here in whistler is the wildlife, especially the furry, cuddly buddies in the woods. since we came here, we saw bears every single day. sometimes even three or four of them, especially on the first chair on our daily way up to the glacier... 

one day, i came across two one-year olds ('cubs') on my daily jogging round at 5 a.m... i was a bit scared at first but i remembered, that there has never been a bear-attach in the whistler area ever. the two little buddies were scared a bit too, but then decided to give a shit and kept on chewing grass right besides the path.

a day off - vancouver

(granville street is a pedestrian zone since the olympics... lots of street artists and bands playing all the time... 

we took the opportunity to shoot some nice group portraits...)

being pretty unlucky with the weather so far, we decided to have a break today and go to vancouver for some shopping... way better, than to wait the whole day through for better weather and sit in the crib doing nothing but hanging, eating and checking facebook every minute...

(starting from our crib late morning, we passed by mcdonalds in squampton... 

peter made sure, not to spill any food on his outfit and the car... thanks, pete!)

compared to whistler, the weather was quite good in downtown vancan and we did the usual tour along robson street... urban outfitters, nike store, levis store and of course the apple store in pacific centre.

(wögna and swöbi, doing some arm-wrestling on granville...)

(we have no idea, what these guys were up to... free salmon for everybody? 

mugl didn't care and checked out some new sony 3d glasses... classy!)

(these shots are for sale, as we somehow need to refund the nice parking ticked we got - 

for parking on a corporate parking lot on a sunday afternoon)

mugl wanted to stop by at the seaside, so we had a small break (and expensive) stop at coal harbour... we stayed there for maybe 10 minutes, been just like 50 meters away from the car, still managed to get a parking ticket of 40 bucks... the guy must have sneaked upon our car right behind our backs... fucker!


a nice day all in all... big hopes for the upcoming days, better weather is about due!

prom night portraits

(dominik and swöbi)

after the first couple of days here at whistler and the usual life, it was about time for the first big camp party at garfs... 'prom night', so we had to look for some vintage stuff to dress up. we went to function junction, some miles before whistler to a secondhand store and got ourselves some outfits. with prices between 5 and 12 bucks, we saved alot for the drinks later on... :)

(mugl, the crew and öfi)

the dress-up was already hillarious and as i still had to do portraits with dominik wagner for his youngblood, it was obvious, that we'd do the portraits in his prom night outfit.

(heisä, basti and myself)

the party once again rocked (thanks for the tickets, fabia!)... 
its perfect that we can sleep long today, as thursday is always the day off at the camp, plus its canada day, so we gonna cruise down to vancouver today for some shopping...

on the way to whistler

after some very intense weeks of photo editing, i'm finally on my way to Camp Of Champions in beautiful (and hopefully sunny) whistler. öfi and mugl have aleredy been hitting the road on thursday, but i decided to join a class reunion yesterday and follow a couple of days later.
it was definately worth the delay, haven't seen most of my classmates for decades literally!

i 

(11 men and an italian jerk today are going home to this country that i saw from above :D)

am leaving sunny germany (well, it was about time for some sun!), only to find out that i'll be airborne for the worldcup game between germany and england this afternoon (somewhere between iceland and greenland to be exact). so i'm hoping that lufthansa kept its promise to re-invent wireless internet on their long distance flights, so i can watch the game or at least follow it on some live ticker. otherwise, i hope that the pilot is a bit of a foolball fan and announces the goals at least... :)


keep you posted ;)


UPDATE:
i meanwhile made it to whistler... of course, there was NO internet on the plane, yet the crew were patriot enough to announce every single goal... could not believe it... sooo stoked!!!

(enough of the sarcasm... i leave it up to sign language)

the streak continued, when i picked up the rental car and got an upgrade to a freakin' suburban... sorry for the gas-bill, chris... but i love this car! equipped it with two german flags i bought, we will be a pain in the ass for the austrian part of the crew.
stopped at serfas' place in downtown vancouver for a quick visit and to make the pick for an insane AK story for the next december issue... brainfarm with trice, jjack and lando... iiiinsane.

(oh, beloved rental, oh beloved vancen!)

to make my day complete, öfi called and announced a reservation at sushi village. could not be any happier right now... met fabia and most of the crew there and had a nice dinner... what a day!!

(oh, beloved sushi village)

item of the month - june2010

well, this month's item isn't really an item, but a little piece of software - expression media pro - that i spend more time with than with my wife at the moment. the reason is, the big annual photo edit is due and there's submissions to edit from about 100 photographers worldwide.
the number of submitted previews has already passed 100k again, so for previewing and editing i need a piece of software that is simple, does not generate huge piles of data and in the same time is reliable enough to safely juggle me through the picture jungle. i found this software already years ago, when it was still named 'iView media', before it was bought by microsoft.

in contrast to way more popular software like lightroom or aperture, this program concentrates on what it can do best (and what i need in this case): make easy editable catalogues of piles of previews. rate them (with colours and/or stars) and narrow down the mass of submitted pictures to a reasonable amount.

the editing process this year already takes longer than expected, yet i could not imagine how long it would tage without this little program...

nice jackson hole review...

just found this nice review about our last year's jackson hole trip with bryan iguchi, sani alibabic and peter könig on peter's blog:

peter könig's blog

thanks peter, nice memories!... my own blog hasn't yet been online at that time so check peter's version for some of my shots.