The year is drawing to a close – and after the self-sawn tree has been carried up into the apartment, so is my own energy. The tree is decorated, (most) presents are packed and now the last preparations for the next days are being done. We will go to the Christmas market shortly to enjoy some Christmas spirit despite the lack of snow.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone!
At the beginning of October we start on our second road trip of this year. In just under 2,500 km we will experience northern, eastern and central Germany. The main destination is Leipzig, and this time it is planned as a relaxing holiday. In other words: We have planned every second day to do nothing. At least on the first day this works out perfectly. This time, again, we load up our car with half of our household items, because that way we lack nothing. Read More
During our road trip I get a call for a film shoot in a stadium. I haven’t done that yet, and since I’ve just been to the DFB headquarters, I might as well go to a soccer game. That’s how it happened that I was on the road for the stadium TV during the top match last Saturday, Leverkusen vs. Schalke. Several cameramen distributed around the stadium, mainly to capture images for the screens in the stadium and for the website. Before the game started, I was able to get an impression of the coaches benches, and what probably impressed me most was that all seats have their own seat heating!
Less than perfect headphones and unbelievably loud noise prevented perfect communication, but thanks to an insanely competent cable operator, who guided me to the right position one or two times, I was able to deliver the pictures that the director wanted. Only the continuous drizzle, which always came from the front, was a little annoying, but apart from that it was something different again. Especially when I was standing on the lawn and had to shoot a presentation while my live image was shown on the screen in front of me. Since my eyepiece was constantly fogged up, I could set up my image so much easier. Unfortunately, the screen is not that portable…
A film shoot with DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach at the DFB headquarters in Frankfurt offered the opportunity to take a closer look at the cups. A relatively short shoot was followed by a relatively long photo session with an incredibly football enthusiastic editor and all the cups and whatever else was in the display cases.
Even if my own enthusiasm for soccer is rather low (I’m indulging in rugby!), I couldn’t resist taking a few photos. And who was not excited or died a thousand deaths during the World Cup final, especially in the last minutes?
So for the football fans, here are a few more photos:
What you do for a good image. In this case, we were in Vienna. It was, unlike Cologne, warm like in the summer. With our trousers on Steve Urkel height I went into the cool water.
In general this shoot was rather varied. There was good, even very good food everywhere we went. Of course we had Viennese food (I also tried the Wiener Schnitzel from my coworker and approved). In addition, during the break before another shoot, we had a one-hour stay in the wok house, an Asian grill, where we thought: let’s just add three euros and then have much more instead of a menu! That was also delicious, and we’ve overeaten ourselves mercilessly.
The only thing that was annoying during the production was the driving from Cologne to Vienna and back, especially since we drove back on Sunday and it was the end of holidays in several federal states. So we got to see the full anarchy on the streets. Luckily we were able to avoid the two worst traffic jams via country roads. Fun Fact: The A3 leads from Cologne directly to Austria. That means you drive more than 700 km on one and the same road, always straight ahead…
One unicorn to finish:
