What a crazy cool 3 day flash workshop. Thanks to all the members, models, suppliers, who made this day possible. It didn’t stop at the word flash, it became a flash-LED-iphone-neonligh-torch-streetlight-workshop. Giving the members all the chance to do what ever they had in mind with that light.

Big thanks to
kuessdiebraut for the beautiful dress
Anika, Alice & Andi for modeling

This is how we shot the ringshots….

Here’s a shot from me and my girl by Daliah Immel Fotografie at my workshop.

I’ve often have asked myself what makes a great wedding. Is it the location? A good looking couple? Nice decoration?  If I would have the chance to pick one thing, that would make  a great wedding, it would be “joy”. The joy of getting married. With the joy that is given off by the bridal couple, it will infect the whole at the wedding and that is just the best thing in my opinion for a wedding!

BUT Petra&Daniel had all of this combined on their special day!
The weinegg was a marvelous for their wedding in hochheim, 
and a delicious one!

UPDATE:
Wir haben uns entschlossen, mehr Teilnehmern diesen Workshop zu ermöglichen. Dafür können wir für jedem Einzelnen ein deutlich attraktiveres Angebot (40% sparen) machen! Plätze sichern unter workshop@jonpride.com
Endlich ist es soweit….
Der ultimative Blitzworkshop für Hochzeitsfotografen ist da! Nach längerer Vorbereitung können Jon Pride und ich dir nun ein garantiertes Blitzkrieg-Praxis-Wochenende ermöglichen! Wir werden unsere Techniktricks verraten, die besten Erlebnisse aus den vergangenen Jahren erzählen und du wirst die vielfältigen Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Blitzlicht im Kontext von Hochzeitsfotografie anwenden lernen. Lass dich 3 Tage lang inspirieren und starte geflasht in die Saison…

Blitzworkshop für Hochzeitsfotografie
> 15. – 17. Februar 2013 in Aschaffenburg
> Vorher 6 JETZT max. 12 Teilnehmer > 3 Tage > 2 Referenten > 1 Brautpaar
> Anstatt 990€ JETZT 590€ pro Person > Anmelden über workshop@jonpride.com
Eine Kooperation von
> Rudi Töws www.rtphotography.de und
> Jon Pride www.jonpride.com

Trailer zum Workshop

This is a shout out to all my future grooms and at the same time a big thank you to Paola from Pink Pixel Photography and Alper from Alper Tunc Films.

I’ll try to sum up the whole story in a few words….

In mid-August, when I started planning the proposal, I asked my grandma if she had something special that I could use to start a tradition with! She left her living room and came back 5 minutes later with a huge golden double ring which held a light blue stone. She explained to me “this is your grandfather and my wedding ring, forged together after his death 15 years ago!”

It’s time to move on she said, with a tear coming down her cheek. I had no idea what to say except thank you, and I asked her gingerly if I could change anything, due to the size of the double ring! She replied of course, it would look ridiculous on her sweet small hands!

Six weeks later, the ring was finally finished. I picked it up and the jeweler told me it was a real beauty. I stored it in my flat mate’s room and kept going in to look at it until our trip to the north for some double date shooting with Paola & Alper. Paola and I are photographers, and Alper is a videographer. After a six-hour journey, we arrived at Paola & Alper’s place. We started their session immediately so Alice would see we were sticking to the plan – to photograph each other and to spend a day or two vacationing.

The next day was Alice and my photo shoot. Alper and I went to get some rolls for breakfast but had also been secretly filming some stuff for the proposal video. I was so nervous, that my palms were sweating like a waterfall. Finally back at their place, we all had one of our best breakfasts. The morning was just perfect, and so we headed to the shoot location. Paola told Alice that the weather was much different when we got to the ocean and that it’d be much, much better.

When we got there, it wasn’t too bad so we started shooting.

Not long after that, however, the weather started to get rough again.  Alice noticed something was strange about me and thought that it was just the weather pissing me off. It actually was  - because Alice also hadn’t been to the beach in three years, and, of course, because I the proposal to be perfect. We hopped into a coffee shop to wait it out and enjoyed a warm coffee and some delicious north German cake. We noticed it stopped raining and so we all decided to finalize shoot.

 Freezing, shivering and fighting against the wind, we were actually having so much fun shooting. While Paola was taking some single shots of Alice, I gave Alper the signal to secretly give me the ringbox. I then told Paola I had a pose idea and asked her to put a wide-angle lense on her camera.

Then it was time. I had prepared so many words for this special moment, but all I could get over my lips was a big fat “I love you, I love you so much that I wanna ask you if you would spend the rest of my life with me” – going down onto my knees in the meantime.

Alice’s first reply was, ”what are you doing there, get up, you’ll get your pants dirty”. Suddenly she realized what I had said and started bursting out in tears with a huge smile and a joyful “YES!”

When it was time to slide the old, borrowed and blue ring onto her finger, I shouted to Paola and Alper – which one!? The left one – the heart side. Next came the most special moment -  the first kiss as an engaged couple.

I just wanted to say a big thank you to Paola&Alper for capturing these perfect moments. 
Thank you!
It’s one of the coolest feelings to have all these images, specially as a photographer, just to have all these moments and feelings come back, when you start looking at the pictures. 
For me these are the most precious images in 2012!

Ps. If you’re wondering what the video looks like, we won’t show it here, cause we want it to be a part of our wedding day. Our families haven’t seen it yet, but I’m shure you’ll find it somewhere on the web if you really wanna see it.

The biggest thank you goes out to Alice for saying YES and being a part of my life and  a part of my future! Can’t wait to start planning our special day!
I love you!!

This couple is just awesome and no I don’t mean the pictures, I mean their personalities are just one of a kind. Paola from Pink Pixel Photography and Alper from Alper Tunc Films
were on of the best new peeps I met in 2012, not only cause they rock, but the also shot my own engagement.

I’ll post some stuff to that topic tomorrow…

but for now enjoy their couple session in Kiel…

The funny thing is Paola is actually from austria and misses the weather sometimes. She told us that the weather sucks in north germany, but you have to make the best out of it. The last 5 min of their session we had some beautiful sunbeams  hitting their romantic session at the beach…

Katrina&Hannes’s wedding was one of a kind, just totally different…
I’ll just sum up a few crazy things that happened.

• Groom walks down the isle to house music
• Pastor explains his service with a tippkick figure
• Brother of the bride runs down the isle with the rings and then does a summersault
• Group shot with 270 people
• Dad’s speech is about “Lord of the Rings” (I’ve been looking forward for that moment since my first wedding)

Sooo go ahead and enjoy all those special moments…

Meanwhile the russians are doing some crazy stuff… I have no clue what that’s supposed to be?

Tine&Michi’s wedding finally on the blog…..

It’s been a total crazy time lately, renovating my first own
office/studio/bridal-couple-get-to-know-you-room…
Getting engaged…
Starting a new project…
Filming 3 new music videos…
…..

…. and this list goes on and on…..

That’s the reason why It’s been so quite lately…. thanks for your patience!

I had such much fun taking Tine&Michi’s special moments. It was such a special cool thing to have their tea&cake-time at their favourite café in wiesbaden, the spital.
Then they had their big party with a flying buffet with all their friends at one of my favourite restaurants
the villa im tal.

Dani&Chris’s wedding probably was the most perfect,  as a 99th wedding could be, the weather was extraordinary, 34°C, not to hot, not to humid, same with the bridal couple, not to hot, not to normal, just extraordinary, see for yourself…

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I went to bed last night with a big fat grin on my face, having won 2 new FEARLESS awards. Waking up this morning with a text from Alper, a good friend, telling me, you lucky boy, you won another 2!

Sooooo I woke up with a big fat smirk on my face… again!!

September a year ago I became a member and in october, the first round I entered, I achieved my first award… “THE SMOKING GROOMSMEN”. Last round I skipped, cause I  didn`t want to expire, with any expectations!! I wanted to get inspired!!

At this point I wanted to say thankyou for all you amazing bridal couples, that inspired me and just rocked their weddings! See for yourself…

THANK YOU!!

Finally my blog is back and I’ve got a lot to show you guys! I’ve got about 11 weddings + 5 different shoot + 3 engagementsessions all comming up in the next few weeks.

But first of all here you go with some shots from the band TOXIC, with which I’ll also be shooting a musicvideo soon.

Packing my bags for the next 2 weddings, so here you go, enjoy and have a great start into the weekend….