Happy Tuesday everyone!
We hope you all have had a great weekend and enjoyed some snow or at least some Christmas markets to get the right mood for this time of the year.
Personally we aren’t there yet, which, for Austrians, has always something to do with the lack of snow. We both need snow to get the Christmas feelings before it’s Christmas.
Yesterday, 6th December 2014, we were lucky to do the international Help Portrait day again. If you are not familiar with this and want to know more, check out the official project website Help Portrait.
We get a lot of questions about where our inspiration comes from and our answer is the same since a couple of years. For us, inspiration is not coming from work or creativity of someone, it’s coming from inside. From the heart of a person or from generous things this person does.
It’s been quiet here, we know. The reason is called Malia Sari and turned six weeks yesterday. More about that is coming soon too. Today is wedding time again.
Believe it or not, this wedding sits here since over a year and waits to get its fame on our blog. August 2013, a week long wedding celebration in Tuscany (Italy). Yes, a week and we were honored to be part of that and capture 5 days of it on photos and video forever.
Hallo liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen!
(German language only, sorry!)
Wir hoffen es geht euch gut! Vor ca. einer Woche haben wir einen 22 minütigen Videoausschnitt aus unserem Workshop „Learn How We Do It“ GRATIS in unserem Shop zur Verfügung gestellt um allen, die einfach mal sehen wollen wie der Workshop aufgebaut ist, ein besseres Bild zu geben als nur den 2,5 Minuten Trailer.
Es ist ein Querschnitt durch die mittlerweile über 9,5h an Videomaterial in dem wir alles teilen was wir über diesen „schönsten Job der Welt“ wissen und wie wir aus einem Hobby einen Vollzeitjob geschaffen haben und unsere Familie ernähren.
(German only, sorry)
Hallo liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
Es ist so weit, wir haben einen Termin für das ZWEITE CANDI WOKRSHOP GATHERING in München und freuen uns auf einen tollen Abend mit Allen aus der Candi Workshop Community. Das Feedback beim ersten Gathering mit ca 70 Teilnehmern war übewältigend. Die Überraschung für uns war wirklich genial und gelungen und wir DANKEN nochmal allen beteiligten für das Geschenk!
Yesterday we reached 15000 likes on Facebook. It’s a big number but it doesn’t really count. What matters is the quality of followers. The people behind this number who are really seeing our work and even commenting or liking one or the other photo/video. This is valid for all social media and sure our blog.
It is every single one of YOU, among another things, that keep us going and keep us doing what we love the most.
It is time for a big THANK YOU for all of you out there for your continuous support, love, inspiration and motivation. YOU who message, email, comment, like and even call us to let us know you are seeing our work and passion. We do not take these things for granted and it does not matter if its 10 “likes” or 300 for a photo. Every “like” and comment is unique and means a person appreciates your work.
We just realized that we never published the wonderful styled shoot we did last year in Florence Italy for the E-magazine from Austria’s larges wedding blog called Hochzeitsguide. We have been on the cover of the second issue and badly wanted to be part of the third version too.
Yesterday we had a very nice little family and friends BBQ at one of the most beautiful spots in Carinthia. It is overwhelming how much love we received for our wedding in New Zealand over the last couple of month and eloping was simply the best idea we have ever head. But truth to be told, we missed our close people and thus we wanted to party with them as well.
When we both first met back in 2003 we knew this is something special with us. The circumstances were everything but no basis for a long time relationship. But we both felt, this was different. We started dating, we moved in together, we started a company and we quit our day jobs for the passion of our lives.
After eleven years, we thought it was something serious so we got married on a wonderful day in February this year. During our honeymoon in Hawaii we brought a long time idea to live and started a new, probably the most exciting and challenging, adventure in life.
We left wonderful New Zealand short after our wedding day for a honeymoon to Hawaii. Btw, thank you all so much for the lovely feedback on our blog post about New Zealand. In case you have not seen it check it out right here.
Exactly today, three years ago, Anne emailed us fort he first time ever with some very personal words about our work and us. She explained her photography career and how she recently found the new love of her life. It all sounded a bit like a fairy-tale and we where really happy to be part of this right from the beginning.
Being a travel junkie herself she wanted some tips for a trip around the world she was planning together with her boyfriend Björn. We emailed back and forth and totally got along without having met each other in person. That changed in 2012 when they came to Munich and we had time to grab lunch together. We connected right from the first second and also had the pleasure to meet over the years again.
About three years ago, we have done a trip around the world and totally fell in love with this wonderful country. (Postings from the past, here and here) New Zealand reminds us a little bit of Austria with the difference that a deep blue ocean is attached to the endless of beauty in the nature.
We were very sure that we will be back one day and once we started planning our recent trip around the world, we knew we want at least another month of traveling in one of these cool camper vans.
Those of you who follow us on a regular basis might still miss one of the big weddings from last year here on the blog. The reason is that it’s still in submission process and besides a handful of teasers, we aren’t allowed to publish more. We also launched a short teaser of the video we did for Ali and Zach during the five day event in Italy.
It has been our biggest wedding assignment till date and we cannot express how amazing these days were for us.
We first came across this US wedding photographer called Mike Larson back in 2007 due to his insanely cool camera toss. Remember that? He is about our age, such a cool guy and a super talented wedding photographer. Back then we only knew him through his blog and online videos.
Our first personal meetup was in 2009 when we both got a seat in his Calumet and Sunbounce Europe Workshop tour and this changed our photography life a lot. A couple of month later, we hired him for a casual portrait session and also met Rachel for the first time. (Here is his blog post about this shoot)
Wir freuen uns heute den offiziellen Termin für das 1. Candi Workshop Gathering in München bekannt geben zu dürfen. (Sorry, German only)
Am Sonntag 27.4.2014 (ab 17:30) laden wir in München zu einem exklusiven Treffen aller ehemaligen Wedding Workshop Teilnehmer und Käufer des Video Workshops ein.
Wir können es kaum erwarten alle persönlich kennenzulernen oder wieder zu treffen. So viele nette Kollegen auf einem Haufen… das wird ein super Event!
Die Organisation findet über die geschlossene Video Workshop Gruppe auf Facebook statt, sofern du den Workshop bei uns gekauft hast, die Gruppe aber nicht kennst, kannst du uns einfach eine Email schicken und wir nehmen dich dann darin auf.