last saturday I was part of a group of bloggers that attended a brand workshop for the smart car brand, or plainly SMART. this being my first event like this I wasn’t really sure what to expect, but I was looking forward to it non the less as it was clear that we would get the possibility to have a drive with the new and coming smart for two electric drive.
today I met up with two buddies of mine, ben and torsten, to go over a few things lining up the future and we took the chance of hanging together to check out the bmx masters last day here in cologne.
here we have a post that was planned to be out a lot earlier, the shoot too place before my south africa trip. well… rather later than never, right? this was also the first shoot with my model svitlana in a very very long time. if you don’t remember her anymore check out the according flickr set and enjoy
Also joining this time was my very talented buddy frank keller, who I originally met on the joe mcnally workshop in venice last year.
we hadn’t seen each other in ages and decided to shoot together again.

you guys for sure remember when I mentioned that the manfrotto school of xcellence started with the live webinars with joe mcnally and bill frakes. if you missed them or want to watch them again just head over here and enjoy! there is also a great webinar from june about monitor calibration you might want to check out.
As some of you might have noticed I went on a little trip to Italy the week before last for a few days and got back last week tuesday. The original plan was to drive down to Bassano Italy at some point and say hi to my buddy Marco at Manfrotto HQ and have some talk and take a tour and all. luckily for me Marco offered me to join him, a team of Manfrotto engineers and BILL FRAKES to Siena for the horse race.
There wasn’t really too much to think about this offer from my side obviously, just a bit of quick planing and pushing my timetable around and i was set to go go.






