Barefeet-in-the-rain

Hello everybody, last weekend my girlfriend and me have been to the "Extraschicht" 2010 at the Tetraeder in Bottrop, Germany. The "Extraschicht" is an annual cultural event here in the Ruhr area and this year was special because Essen and the Ruhr area are the European Capital of Culture 2010. In Bottrop as the final act of their "Local Heroes Week" the "Midsummer Night's Dream" came to life with a lot of fairies, gnomes and other strange entities. One of the highlights surely was Titania herself reciting songs by the German romatic poet Joseph von Eichendorff and German 1950's Enfant terrible, actress and chanteuse Hildegard Knef. :thum

I have been to Duisburg-Nord Country Park again looking for interesting details to take pictures of. Well here are some of them. More to follow this weekend maybe. :thumb111210287: :thumb111210429: :thumb111210639:

Yesterday I had a photo shooting with a very lovely young lady named Lucy at Castle Moyland near Kleve. It was her first photo shooting ever (and my fourth), but after only a short time she acted very relaxed in front of my lens and we both had a lot of fun during these four hours. The park of Castle Moyland has got a lot of interesting locations for a shooting and it surely wasn't the last time for me taking pictures there. As a pity the weather was all grey. Therefor a lot of pictures didn't turn out the way I hoped, but I think some shots are still quite good. I am very happy that she enjoyed the shooting the much as I did and that we