Guido Karp's photostream

This shot of HIM was taken on the street outside their manager's house few weeks ago. It was a quick shoot - maybe thirty minutes.

Once again our dear and fearless Anja, who we "discovered" on the 2002 Photokina - or better, where she found us. 2002 was the year we presented the princess for one day concept for the very first time, being called "be a star" at that time. By now, we sort of got over the usage of the word "star" - and just as well as the many many before/after you see now everywhere.

Tomorrow we are embarking for one more Princess Tour through Germany, and by request of the many loyal customer (and fans ;-), we will now try men, families, kids - and cover girl, which is a variation of our classic princess for one day workshop style, proving that EVERYONE'S A TOP MODEL ;-)

Feel free to check out my blog for more images - and what's behind them (guidokarp.com/blog)

Canon EOS 1D MIII
Canon 135mm 2.8
160sec, f16, 100 ASA
Hensel Beauty Dish
Manfrotto stand
So far for the tech part.

One of my favourites, Take That opening their tour in the Odysee Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland - performing "Reach out" from their multi-platinum release "Beautiful World". Until this very show, I did not care to much about the song, afterwards I used it as a ring tone for quite a while.

I post this particular image, as I just hold it. Take That's designers have just requested the high res file for the use in a forthcoming book release from and about Take That.

The image is one of the band's favourites. When approving the images, Mark, Gary, Jason and Howard asked to use this as the "free photo" when licensing it back to FansUNITED (who hold the exclusive licensing rights to sell Take That's concert photos to fans. By returning the response element from a leaflet given out at the concerts with return postage, fan could receive a free concert photo brochure, and said image was thrown in as a goodie to compensate for the postage. The image series is still online on www.fansunited.com).

Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II
Canon 24mm, 2.8
f 2.8, 1/100 sec, 800 ASA

in my studio in Germany. On the Nudes I do, I really like to avoid any form of accessories. I played with some jewelery, angel wings - the works, These are simply the ones I like most.

This was taken in 2007 - I just found it. While uploading, I realize the only other nude I have up so far is by the same model. I promise to show another girl next time.

And hey, no: the girl is really pretty, there is absolutely no reason why I did not show her face.