All alone, not alone...

I know, sometimes it takes quite a while until I have some new series ready,

and I would like to apologize for that!

I try to post as much as I can for you, but I'm a real "lone wolf": I do everything myself. A lot of time is lost on unproductive work. For example, my screen recently gave up after years and I was without an editing workstation for three days until the new screen was here and I had everything set up again... But of course it also involves keeping my household and studio clean, tidying up after sessions etc....

Editing itself also sometimes takes a lot of time, mainly depending on the condition of a model's skin. I've already talked about this. "Normal" photographers simply use filters and predefined routines that simply "perfect" the skin - in other words, replace it with a flawless layer of plastic. That's out of the question for me.

Pimples are normal, everyone has them from time to time, but they are not nice to look at. That's why I remove them from the photos I publish. It's very rare that a model has really perfect skin, like Priscilla during our trip to the Canary Islands, so that I really didn't have to retouch anything in these photos. But even such a perfect girl sometimes grows a pimple here and there...

Other models are beautiful and fantastically sensual, but they have real skin problems. Take my dear Silene, for example, who I was finally able to persuade to let the hair that is still growing on her body grow for me and for new sessions.

Silene, as I've described before, suffers from hirsutism, an unusual amount of body hair for girls, as a result of a hormonal function of her seductive body. I love these hairs, but Silene much less so, which is why - unfortunately for me - she has decided to remove her fine hairs all over her body by photodepilation.

Unfortunately, the hirsutism symptom not only leads to strong hair growth, but also to very unpleasant skin blemishes, especially for Silene herself. I remove these from her photos, one by one, in order to keep the rest of her skin and the hairs that are still there as natural as possible.

As a result, I work on each photo for 10 - 20 minutes, depending on which parts of the body are visible, the angle at which the light falls on them, and so on. For a series of over 120 images (like the one I've been working on for a few days), that's 30 hours of editing, not including breaks.

I also can't work more than 5 - 6 hours a day concentrated on the screen. My eyes get tired, I have trouble focusing and my neck starts to hurt...

There's a difference between working on one or two photos for an exhibition or for print, and whole series like the ones I'm presenting to you...

So I apologize if it sometimes takes a little longer between the individual series, but I think sometimes it's really worth the wait!

See you soon!