For the past five years the Knesbeck Verlag has published a pug-calendar with pictures that where taken from the book “Der Mops“, which I shot in 2004. For the 2012 calender they had used up almost every colour photo from the book, and asked if I would go out into the field again to take some new pictures. Of course I happily accepted, looking very much forward to listen to the huffing and puffing of the little hair-balls again.
They are just cool creatures, so hurry and buy the calender to secure my future pug-engagement. It’s only four month until the new year starts!

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For the July issue of German Rail’s magazine “mobil” I visited Abc – Tiertraining who train and rent out animals for film productions.
The assignment was to photograph the animals doing all their amazing film-tricks. Initally expecting rabbits that jump through rings of fire and similar stuff, the owner Marco quickly made clear that the main trick his animals pull off, is to stay in one place. Well, at least sometimes.
For lack of spectacular animal stunts “mobil” decided to go for snaps from film productions instead. I still had a fun day with sitting pigs, baby foxes, yawning cats, grinning goats and got a decent suntan.

You can read the full story here.

The other week I had a very charming visitor in my studio. A wild grey goose.
It has now appeared on the cover of the magazine “Beef”.
I do feel slightly guilty for using this beauty as a proxy for a christmas roast, but animal lovers and vegetarians don’t need to fret. This guy didn’t end up in the oven.