Making of pic & Autobild

P.s.: And the Pin up Animal Rescue calendar was advertised on autobild.de

Making of Pin up Animal Rescue Video

As I said before no animals were harmed. You see the gentleman with the hat? He checked every few minutes that I hold Schnappi properly and that it won´t get stressed and would have killed me if I had done it any harm. Besides anyone that has befriended me should know that I have lived all my life with pets and would rather harm myself than a helpless creature.

Yes I got to repeat the disclaimer. Someone on myspace wrote the unapprociate comment to me "Are you going to kill baby seals next time to show how violent it is?" It´s actually good if you can read disclaimers, ya know ;-)

Anyway. If in doubt check out their website http://www.herpetofauna.ch or drop them a mail to ask after the conditions of the shooting. They´ll probaly tell you the same.

Shooting the Pin up Animal Rescue Calendar

When the animal trainer adviced me how to hold the caiman I was terrified of two things:

No. 1: That it is really aggressive since he told me so many many times to really hold it tight cause otherwise it would escape or bite me

No. 2: To struggle the poor thing cause I had to hold it just behind it´s head :-o The way I hold it looks a bit brutal in the video, but I was instructed to do so and can assure you "Schnappi" was still able to breath.

However "Schnappi" hardly moved at all and seemed to be sort of comfortable hanging around in my hands and never even tried to escape. It was surely good that it was used to humans and probably it felt that I don´t want to do it any harm. And we kept things as stress-free as possible for him. If the caiman would have gotten nervous we had interupted it.

How does does it feel to touch a caiman? It´s tummy was soft like pudding and it´s back was hard like stone!

The photos are for Zoe Scarletts Pin up Animal Rescue calendar 2009 that will be released at the 18th of October and also features Pin up superstars such as Kay O´Hara and Heidi van Horne. You will be able to purchase it on www.zoescarlett.com soon. All the money will be going to a Animal Rescue organisation in Switzerland. You can imagine that I said "yes" immediately when Zoe asked me cause I feel we all should do our best to protect the nature and our animals! Every bit helps!

Wochenende und Sonnenschein

It is weekend and thanks to the lovely Tanja at IP Interactive I already got a copy of RTL Punkt 12 (she is obviously a ex co-worker of mine, living in my naighborhood and sometimes we even take the same train - however we didn´t got to know until 2 days ago). Usually it takes weeks to get a copy so I guess it´s destiny that we live practically next to each other and met through this :-)

Es ist Wochenede und dank der Tanja einer wunderbaren Mitarbeiterin von IP Interactive habe ich jetzt schon eine Kopie von RTL Punkt 12 (streng genommen ist sie eine Ex-Arbeitskollegin die in meiner NAchbarschaft wohnt und manchmal fahren wir morgens mit demselben Zug - nichtsdestotrotz kannten wir einander bis vor 2 Tagen garnicht). Ich hab gehört normalerweise dauert es Wochen bis man eine Kopie bekommt, also nehm ich an es ist Schicksal das wir praktisch nebeneinander wohnen uns uns auf diese Weise getroffen haben :-)


So today I was shooting for a national campaign that will get public in October... And it´s a damn cool one. Tons of nice photos and all... And the guys of Black Raven are in the boat, too I heard :-) http://www.blackraven.de/
Next weekend  I´ll be travelling to Switzerland to shoot for Zoe Scarletts Animal Rescue Calendar.

Heute habe ich für eine deutschlandweite Kampagne geshootet die im Oktober veröffentlicht wird. Und es ist eine verdammt coole mit vielen schönen Fotos. Und ich hab gehört die Herren von Black Raven sind auch dabei :-)  http://www.blackraven.de/
Nächstes Wochenende fahre ich in die Schweiz um für Zoe Scarletts Tier-Kalender zu shooten.