After a make-up and hair session with my friend Karen from Kalamakeup, we headed down to the beach with Jodi, Marco and their adorable (soon to be 2) Sierra. The family is soon going to grow, so we were lucky to celebrate being together and new life all at once!

After that it was some “quality together” time for Jodi and her baby… and time for me to play with my Rangers.

… but the day didn’t end there… in the evening I caught up with her again to create some more maternity shots at home. I think she looks fabulous, don’t you?

That was a perfect end to a perfect first shoot in DB.

Good night world!

You can check out the video on their website, but basically what Ecosia does, is they give 80% of the advertising profits to the WWF Rainforst program and in addition, they run their servers pureley on Green Energy.

I use the internet extensively, and have read on more than one occasion that the Internet actually pollutes more that commercial airlines in a whole year, and this has bothered me extensively. You can check this article out for example: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/what-is-the-environmental-impact-of-the-internet.php

I don’t know about you, but I prefer that my business helps saving the rainforest by using “green” electricity rather than making Google shareholders even richer all while worsening my footprint!

Because, no matter what Google says on their website (http://www.google.com/corporate/green/datacenters/ and http://www.google.com/corporate/green/footprint.html) they are far from green. For one, they only mention that they “are looking into” and “thinking about” solutions… and don’t demonstrate anywhere that they “have done” something to become carbon neutral, but in addition to that, there is no mention of using green electricity to power their operation, which could be a really easy thing to put in place.

The only thing that bothers me a bit, is that Ecosia get their data from Yahoo and Bing, who are probably not greener than Google, but my thinking is that at least, by using Ecosia, some of this is going to be offset!

So from now on, deelee photography is going to be an ecosia user

Have a nice day!

First and foremost, we finally got a date for our move late summer so I’ve been quite busy preparing our move to Hong Kong. I’m really quite sad to be leaving Krakow because I love this place so much, but I’m looking forward very much to the new adventure that lies beyond and the new places to discover. We spent a week there looking for a new home and all, and it was a lot of fun and the food was just amazing!

Then I worked on a quite important project with my friend and extremely talented singer/songwriter Claire Tchaikowski.

Claire came to visit early October and we filmed her dance remix video. This was my very first video with my new camera and we had a lot of fun doing it. Taawa gave us permission to film in their beautiful and super sexy club and the Universe sent us snow for the outside shots. This took up quite some of my time too, since I not only did the video, but all the artwork for her album. It was a really fun project!

The video can be found by clicking here. (link to vimeo)
Some of the work done for Claire by clicking here. (link to my website)

Another really fun project was the adaptation of old ski posters for a Swiss Alpine Photographer – Patrick Jantet – who has a photo service and shop in the very classy ski resort of Villars-Sur-Ollon. We worked together on quite a few projects and this one – just like the others – was sooooo much fun.

These beautiful posters can be purchased in his shop in Switzerland, or shipped to you directly. Just drop him a line if you’re interested: info@studiopatrick.ch… and if you’re in Villars, pop by his shop next time you’re up there and say hi from me

With this I also worked on a beautiful demo book for my talented friend and photographer Philippe Wiget, who also works in Switzerland. Philippe is a top class wedding photographer and we’ve been working for some years together now. We have both fallen in love with Finao books and have decided to replace our previous offer of Graphistudio books – with whom we have had many problems – with this new supplier. And that gave us a new opportunity to work together  We selected one of his cool weddings from last year to make a “bebbalicious”  album

photos by Philippe Wiget

Finally, I spent a little time training the children at school who are taking over the newsletter I was doing for them, I designed another Wedding Book for some private clients, went on holiday (yeah yeah I know… ) and did some private photography for the school year-end shows and birthday parties…   and as I sit here writing this entry, my house is being emptied and shipped off to the other side of the world.

moving

So I bid you farewell for now as I might be off line for some time and wish you all a very happy New Year to come filled with success, health and lots of love

Take care – deelee

Later on in the evening, there was a surprise show… three of the project leaders got up on stage to give a special concert. Everybody went nuts… it was really fun to photograph… and film, as I used my Mark II’s great video capability to create some “fusion” output. I can’t share the “fusion” video, but I can share a few photos

All was organised by Concept Music Art who did an amazing job… my Krakow friends will want to keep this address in a safe place… I can only highly recommend them!

I haven’t finished the book yet, but I’m so ecstatic about it that I want to share a page or two for fun I’ll share a little more when the project is finished

Sneak Peak at African Travel book

Draft book design for African trip

I wish them all the best and look forward to meeting little I. when she gets back.

• Download the files and use them in your electronic documents or to make online albums.
• Purchase prints directly from EZ prints who will send high quality prints to your home.

And if you’d like to be in the picture, don’t forget that I am offering Krakow Sessions only until this autumn, so hurry up to book a place before it’s too late

The three kids where absolutely ADORABLE and we all had a wonderful time. Baby T. has the cutest little features and I had a blast photographing them. K. & W. where the perfect models playing with me for the camera and where as good as gold… and J. & B. are so happy and relaxed together… even the sun shined for us!…  it was a wonderful moment.

We finished by having a delicious and relaxed meal together as the sun went down over the Wisla.  I’m a little sad to say good-bye to them, but so happy we got to spend this nice evning together.

I wish them all the best in their new adventures!

Krakow in Love session

Just before leaving for Switzerland, I spent a really lovely evening with A & D who are a truly handsome and adorable couple. They are getting married very soon and wanted to remember their time together here in Krakow.

The whole day  had been grey and windy with regular rain showers, but we took off anyway – my flash all packed with batteries and ready to do some serious work. We just couldn’t believe our luck when the sky  cleared up in less than 15 minutes while we were drinking a “pre-shooting” beer on the Rynek.

We started out in the old town and then headed over to Kazimierz – the Jewish quarter – for some supper and some “night” shots. My husband joined in on the fun and did an excellent job as my “flash holder” and “bag carrier” for the rest of the evening (thank you honey, could not have done it without you !).

We had a great time and Kazimierz by night is really an amazing and romantic place to photograph – don’t you think?

Relaxing in the Planty

Give me a kiss

"The" Krakow Sessions shot

In the flower market

Gotcha

Shadows

At night in Kazimierz