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In line with the texture discussions, and as an example of art texture work, I’d like to share with you some pictures from my shooting for Brigitte magazine. The magazine is out now ( issue 6, March 2011 ) and you can see those lovely spring moods that we have created on it’s pages.

The concept (Baerbel Recktenwald and Dietlind Wolf) was to show beautiful flower bouquets created by Dietlind Wolf in a more vintage postcard style.

This comes naturally made through the photography technique I use and serves as an example thereof. The casting was also great and we found lovely models, all in all it was great fun to work on this project. It also gave me some new experience and inspiration, as flowers have not been, until now, a part or focus of my work.   And the spring will also come soon to our part of the Earth, so i hope you enjoy this story.

Recently I have been (re)watching  the Tudors series. I loved the outfits and the jewelry made me quite envious, as every girl I love to dress up and to try different roles, sometimes it’s good to feel yourself a queen. A lot of the images created by the costume designers of these series impressed me, especially the character of Catherine Howard, a very

young and cheerful lady, played by Tamzin Merchant. I felt in love with her grace, the way she moved, danced her youth and  her loneliness..I also found her outfits amazing and immediately wanted to get a beautiful and subtle crown and suddenly found it in one of the stores, I got it and did some pictures. I am gonna show you some images of that shooting in my next post. For now I would like to share with you those which inspired me.

miniature portrait of Catherine Howard by Hans Holbein the Younger