Kristina Bode

Ok, the movement didnt took so long, but I was lazy with a new design.

Lucky I was, I found brushes from Tamsin Baker, you can see his website by clicking on the rabbit on my contact site.

I am working right now on a few songs I have to finish - have a few pictures in my mind and will shoot them, but the day hasnt 48 hours, so I have to plan what I want more and actually its my music site.

In fact, I wasnt making music for over a year, thats why I really enjoy it, to found my way back to it.

The reason, why I am doing new songs are always melancholic - a lost love...again.

The creativity should be my relationship...it never leaves me...

Kris
 

Tomorrow I will move from Ulm to Kiel which is about 850 Km - from the south to the north.

I like the north more ;)

And the new flat, well next week I have to clean the floors and paint the walls, cause they are dirty :(

I had to buy a floor cleaner which costs me 470 Euro, money I wanted to save...but sometimes life has other plan for it.

Next week I will meet Julia, which is my first model this year - we are only talking about the shoot, which will be on the beach, vintage with umbrella and stuff...I cant wait to begin this shoot ;)

I was sending the picture "All I Wanted" to

www.thespiderawards.com

which is one of the most biggest awards the winner can have....the pictures are judged by high qualified people (if you want to read the names, you see them in the link "judge").

To write about the nominees I copied this from the site, maybe you understand better

"Thousands of images are submitted each year to Black and White Spider Awards with only a few hundred images making it to Nominee status by consensus of the Jury. This Nominee shortlist consists of images that have received the highest percentage of votes overall and is the shortlist from which the winners are decided."

This is a big push for me, special for my work.

www.thespiderawards.com/gallery/gallery.php

Its in the category people/amateurs

I am very happy about that, besides I am not often sending a picture to such a competition.

Kris

Liebes Ulm

Ich habe, eine recht kurze, aber stürmische Affäre mit dir gehabt...

Doch es ist vorbei.

Die Gründe sind simpel, wie in jede Beziehung merkt man irgendwann, was zuvor süß und lieb aussah, doch recht nervtötend sein kann.

Um ein kleines Beispiel zu nennen :

Du hast einen Abfallsortierwahn!

Ich, ich bin ein Mensch des Chaos, das gebe ich zu.

Ich habe versucht, es dir recht zu machen, aber irgendwann wurde mir dein bescheuertes Sortiersystem einfach zuviel!

Nundenn, ich denke, es ist Zeit, mich wieder meiner alten Liebe Hamburg zuzuwenden.

Mit ihr ging es zwar auch oft drunter und drüber, aber in Sachen Ordnung waren wir uns immer einig.

Ich wünsche dir alles gute, möge ein anderer dein Herz erobern.

Meines hast du nicht.

 

Gruss
 

Kris
 

Well its time again to write something intelligent....

So I am moving to Kiel, which is in the north of Germany - and I hate movings....but I have to do it, so I will be having only GPRS for a few weeks and find a new flat, manage everything and to get fit again (I am fat actually my ass can kill people).

Kris
 

Thanks to my model Dina for the day ... we had a lot of fun and this is the result of it


La Femme

Actually its getting better these days...I started to run every day again and I can tell you the first week felt horrible...

The second week felt better and the third has already started ^^

I am writing actually on a new song, which I had to do, it has something to get over the past and this song will help me to get through it.

My mother will visit me next week and I hope she helps me with my problems, we have to talk a lot about the past and these are not very happy themes, so it will be a hard week but its important to me.

If I get stuck in the past I will never see the future.

Kris

Sorry for no writings so long but my life is actually everything but great and I am having a hard time to get through it.

I had to manage things and most of them went not so easy as I thought they were :(

Yes thats life and its one of the reasons I am not in the mood for making pictures.

On the other side I have to go to a seminar from August - December, so these are 4 months in which I have to learn a lot and the hell I dont have time for making pictures...sorry but this is very important for my job which pays my rent and food.

So everything has to play the second violine, even though I miss to make pictures, I really do.

I am looking forward to make new ones next year and I am hoping my life will be settled enough to go with fresh ideas to the start.

Miss you Pris my friend and Ace for sure and Melanie (dont know if you will ever read this but you are be also a part of my life).

And my models all of you thank you so much this year was so inspiring for me and you all did a very good job.

My photographer collegues in the world, thank you for your pictures which shows me often I have to learn more and more.

My running friends, I am often thinking about you and try to start with training - but this time its not working...I am to weak, but I am hoping that I get the strongness that you all have to run every day!

I dont hope I forgot someone, I dont mean it badly and no this is not a goodbye but I was in the mood to write something down.

Dont forget me :)

Well I did many pictures this year and worked at least every weekend on pictures...

But now I feel that I really need a break...just a time to relax, to get the diet working, to start with sport again and to let my brain rest.

I am sick these weeks, the flu isnt gone and that is a signal to slow the speed down.

I think, I will start in June maybe...keep you informed, as always I do :)

Kris

I had a wonderful inspiring and creative weekend...even I am having a cold and my voice is like godfather *lol*

The pictures are (like always) melancholy ... cant help it - I like to make such "lost" images :)



Teddy



My Flowers



Never arrived



Memories

The model is Lie, and she is having a very good homepage, you might like to visit :

Model Lie

Last weekend I had a wonderful shooting with a very talented model, and now I have the first picture finished, hope you like it :)



The city Ulm is a very inspiring place it was a good decision to move there...

Heyho

Friday I was getting DSL.....aaaaaaaaaaw...had forgotten how great it is to have such a quick connection :)

And I worked on a picture which is finished now and I hope you like it!


Model was Andrea (again) and the title is "My Inner Flower" which is part of a new serie I am working the whole year on it.

This was my first image I painted with light.

What is that?

Well...it sounds quite easy...

You shoot in a dark room, completely dark and then your camera is on a tripod, cause the record time is very long, depends from 10 seconds to 30 seconds.

For a model its difficult, cause she needs to hold her breath and the pose has to be easy, she should not move much...

I met Andrea in a model community and she is living in the same city as I am, so I asked her if she is interested to make a "test" shooting with me, cause I always wanted to try out this way of making pictures.

She said yes and so we met us and did it ;)

We had a lot of fun, like the girls always have ;)

DONT SAY EVER THAT I AM NOT FUNNY !!!

Well...I updated my Website and we have now a new category called "Inspiration" which is what it seems.

Here I want to show you some art from others which is an inspiration for me...

Will be updated from time to time...

A bit dark...I know...but I am in the mood right now...and the time will come back for happy pictures...

*omg* I have to start my diet TODAY!!!

Absolutely not satisfied what I see in the mirror...dont know how much I weight, dont want to know it *lol*

So, I post it, cause then everyone can see it and for me it is an incitation to take it serious.

:)

The move was successful, now my new residence is in Ulm, which is a real big city and (very important) with a train station.

Now I am fighting against all the boxes...and I think I win...this weekend I will have everything done in my flat, cause the next shooting with a model will be at saturday 15.1

This year I am planning a big project, you will see the pictures sometime and maybe I create a new gallery for this.

On the other side I plan a calendar with this project - the calendar will be for 2010, cause to finish it for 2009 I have the work done till June and I cant do that...so I have enough time and spirit to finish it next year.

Now...again I have to sort the boxes...

Before the new year...I finished a new picture.

It is similar to "Druni", cause its black and white, just worked with saturation, shadows and minimal texture.

Hope you like it.

Mostly the people who are not kissing your ass - are often the best!

Thank you my special friend...

I had a shooting last weekend with 4 very different and wonderful models.

Here are two pictures of the shooting...will work on the others soon...



The images reminds me of the autumn which is over and the winter is here...so cold...

I have to move in January to Ulm, which is a bigger city and more inspiring for me, but it cost money to move and that was money I saved for other things...but sometimes the life changes and there is nothing you can do against it.

And sometimes, you think "why is this bullshit happen to me?" but, be sure, it has a reason.

I hope.

Will see my mother soon...and celebrate christmas with her...she is such a great person and so supportive...thank you Mum!