I found some really inspiring photographers the last days and I would love to share them with you

Della Bass
She’s an Australian photographer and lives in New York. She mainly shoots fashion and some travel and portraiture. Her work is full of color and life, I love it!
www.dellabass.com

Norbert Kniat
a Vienna based fashion photographer for international clients.
www.kniat.de -  (website done by myfriendfromberlin.com. also interesting inspirations there )

Anders Bergh
has been working as independent photographer since 1993, with his own studio in Copenhagen. He also worked with several international brands and advertising agencies. I really love his style and cleanliness. Hard contrasts, full HDR power – check it out yourself at:
bergh.dk

Lyndon Wade
is a NYC based commercial photographer, who shoots for world’s most famous ad agencies. Great colors & compositions ideas!
lyndonwade.com

A little shop in the 3rd district of Vienna with lots of accessoires, gifts and well-designed home-stuff. We got in touch with the people there and took some photos of some products with our macro lens. The lightning was low (like in every store) but enough for some good shots:

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if you want to get in touch with this lovely two-person crew check out:
www.samtundsonders.co.at

As announced we checked out the comic market at Längenfeldgasse last sunday.
This kind of market takes place about three to four times a year and is highly frequented.
It was our first time to have a look  however and it was astonishing how organized everything seemed.

The market took place in a school building. “Maybe not the best atmosphere for a occassion like this,” I thought. Everything around was brown and had a touch of the 70´s, bringing the feeling of a flea market with it.
At the entrance we were handed some goody bags. While I was looking inside my bag, I was almost trampled down by some Storm Troopers.
Yes, Storm Troopers. Followed by an alien guy (who surely has a name too) and Luke Skywalker who had a cup of coffee with him.

Now this brought a total different attitude to the whole thing. Suddenly this was no boring school anymore, rather than a mysterious headquarter of evil and good forces, all lining up to show and sell their toys. I smiled at the thought of one of these Storm Troopers sitting in his living room, all dressed in uniform and playing with his Imperial Star Destroyer and making sounds like “zoom bzzzzz bzzzz bzzz”.

What immideately took my whole attention was the merchandise stand. This is a brain-dead situation to me.
Oh, a Totoro figure. It´s mine. End of story. ;;^_^;;

Now if you have been collecting ANY kind of comic for the last 30 years or so and you just happen to miss this one particular piece in german, english, italian or elvish, then this is the place for you. The assortment is overwhelming, the number of likeable nerds with good information very high.

And last but not least I now share the bed with a Super Mario Star. Very soft that guy. What more could I want.

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A foggy cold sunday and good lightning by the sun drives us to go out with the sigma 150mm marko for some hours.

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The hot chocolate was a real pleasure for our cold lips

Sunday. After a well deserved sleep and breakfast at about 2 p.m. we decided it was about time to get some fresh air.
So grab the camera and out out out. We headed off at a random direction, wondering what will cross our way on the exploration.
To our excitement we found some very cute and special shops,
but due to the fact that it was sunday we were restrained to taking photos of the window display.

But we will get back there and have a post about these gorgeous locations too.
Until then have a look at some photos we took in the meantime.

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Count Basic (not Count Basie – but the name is related to them) are an Austria R&B, trip-hop, acid jazz & smooth jazz band. Band Leader Peter Legat, the wonderful vocalist Kelli Sae (both working together for 13 years now) and a really really good band crew kicked our ass at the Gasometer to move to their groove beats and lovely melodies. Luckily we got the chance to take photos from the press box in front of the stage and it was great fun but also quite hard to shoot good photos, because of that low (sometimes red) light.
We enjoyed ourselves!

Count Basic Website
Count Basic MySpace

external interview with Count Basic @ Jazzitalia.net

our photos:

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