Portraits in historical Village

Markus Wasmeier did an excellent career as ski racer. He won the world championship in the year 1985 at Bomio (giant slalom) and later in 1994 he won olympic gold twice in Lillehammer (giant slalom, super g)After his carrer he founded a farm and wintersport museum in Schliersee. This year we had the idea, to

Exhibition in my hometown

At the moment you can see some of my work of Siena at an exhibition in my hometown Grafing. The gallery from Reinhard Riederer „Werkstatt 18“ presents pictures and the camera minutera. On Saturday, 11th of June we host an „Italian Evening“ and I will tell some stories of my time in Italy and also

In God we trust

During my trip I mostly photographed tourist but also people of Siena. With help from above, what should go wrong? Während meines Aufenthalts fotografierte ich überwiegend Touristen aber auch die Menschen der Stadt.Und mit Hilfe von oben kann doch eigentlich nichts mehr schiefgehen.

A „Selfie“ with the Minutera

Today everybody shoots selfies with the smartphone, so why not doing one with the Minutera? But how to press the shutter? The lens I use doesn’t have a mount for a external cable release. Luckily my friend Alex visited me in Siena for three days. First we took a picture of him, then he assisted

Lunch in „Campagna di Siena“

picture above (c) Teresa Cicero A few days ago there was a lady watching me while I was preparing the camera. I recognized her because she watched very interested. As I found out soon, she was a photographer from Siena named Teresa and wanted to get a picture from me. So I made one and

Minutero meets Minutero

The group of photographers using the Camera Minutera, so called Minuteros, is small. So of course we are well connected online and the Italian photographer Nicola Mauro Salza did have seen my planned trip to Siena. So he wrote to me: „Hey Sebastian, what do you think? Let’s meet us there and have a beer.“

Weather like a ballerina

The waitress in my preffered bar said to me: „Oggi il tempo è una ballerina“, the weather is like a ballerina. A very nice metaphor for what it did yesterday. And for real, the clouds came up and went away as fast as they did come. From east to west, and west to east and

Grazie a tutti!

Time to say thanks! One week ago, I returned to Germany and the project in Siena is finished so far. (Not forever I’m sure) But I won’t miss to say thanks to all the people who had contributed to let it become a great experience for me!First of all, the two barista of the Café

Time for an „Aperitivo“

One famous thing in Italy is the so called „Aperitivo“, a drink you take usually between 5 and 9 o‘ clock p.m. before you go home to dinner. The bar „Il Battistero“ was closer than 50 meters to my appartement and so I quickly found the way. As I found out it is a very

Coffee-break with the unknown taxi driver

Like I told you before, during the first week there were a few windy days in Siena and it was really cold working on the street. I stood on the Piazza San Domenico and a taxi driver came towards me. He told me that he had seen me standing here for the last hours while