This year's travel & work brought NIKOLAIKIKI to Warsaw, Kiev, Istanbul, Poznan, Switzerland, Italy, Barcelona, Saar region, Friesland & other places in Germany. These are some of the best snaps ...
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Happy New Year!
KIKI
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Have a happy Christmas time!
KIKI
Last Sunday the 56th Biennale Arte di Venezia 2015 ended. Check out some impressions of this year's art event entitled "All the World's Futures" (see a map with all the venues):
Central Pavilion, here
Hungarian Pavilion, here
Israeli Pavilion, here
Polish Pavilion, here
Serbia, here
Austrian Pavilion, here
Netherlands, here
Belgium, here
Russian Pavilion, here
Switzerland, here
Norway, here
Japan, here
Czech/Slovak Republic, here
Australia, here
British Pavilion, here
Corea, here
Germany, here
Greek Pavilion, click here
Tsang Kin-Wah: The Infinite Nothing, Hong Kong
Arsenale, here
Albania, here
Argentina, here
Istituto Italo-Latino Americano
Denmark, here
Wu Tien-chang
China, here
Indonesia, here
Venice
That's it!
(more info)
KIKI
At the beginning of October I was participating a wine harvest in the Mosel/Saar region, a very beautiful, lush and picturesque part of Germany in between the rivers Mosel and Saar, close to the Luxemburg and french border. We were invited by vintners Matz and Jonas Hild to help pick their special Elbling grapes, the most famous of a collection of home made wines. We spent a whole day on their vineyards and followed the first steps of their production line. It's a small over 100 years old family run business and they are shipping their bottles around the world. A New York restaurant owner calls the Elbling wine, this special grape of the southern wine Mosel, "Mineral Water from Heaven", and I can only agree with that ;) It's been a very interesting weekend. Check out the photos ...
The grapes get all hand picked in the vineyards.
When the mini tractor stops working due to a bursted oil hose you have to go carry with classic baskets ;)
Jonas and Matz Hild with one of the workers
You can of course try and convince yourself in the field :)
And even try some wine during a break.
We filled six of those tubs this day.
Perfect grapes
It's much easier with the tractor.
Jonas Hild in the vineyard
The crew
The harvest goes onto the scale.
We collected 2,5 tones of grapes this day. And the relatives liked it.
The grapes will be pre-hackeled and go into the winepress next to it.
From there the fresh juice goes straight into the wine cellar to be further processed.
A really old tank from inside
Work done
That's it for now. I of course got a big box of wine shipped to Berlin and I'm eager to try the bottles that we picked.
Check out their website or facebook page and make sure to try a bottle of Elbling one day, it's worth it!
See you later
KIKI
Check out my snaps from the last couple of months ...
Happy autumn!
KIKI
Canon 5D Mark III, 70-200 f/4 L IS, 135mm, f/5.6, flash and California sun bounce
NIKOLAIKIKI is also shooting casual or formal portraits for all types of purposes, in this case application in the cultural field.
KIKI
Peace!
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This ...
Happy April!
KIKI
