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My daughter Anna Valla is celebrating her 30th birthday this weekend. A fantastic party last night with her many friends and the family. These shots are all scanned and not much work done on them, just wanted to say Happy Birthday Anna Valla!

Not in the shooting mood, a lot of practical things to do before we leave the house in the country and head for the city. But I have been so inactive lately that I feel like uploading a bit. Starting with my youngest and then on to shots from my travels maybe.

Got stuck uploading buildings and interiors, will upload travel shots next. I have a shoot scheduled on Saturday, I do not feel inspired.

This summer, we had planned a month long trip, starting out in France, then Switzerland and back to France and then the Mediterranean coast to Italy and in Tuscany we had rented a place for a week, and then north again. But Janke is not well and is in fact waiting for surgery and we cancelled. We should have been leaving Tuscany right about now, so I am going back to other trips to Italy, looking forward to next year.

One thing is good about this delay - we now know that we should either travel later, september maybe, or in the early summer. It is way to hot in August.

Why? Because if they hadn't gotten so hot on censorship, I would not have found Ipernity. Had I not found Ipernity I would not have gotten so many new photo-friends. Had I not found Ipernity, I would not have gotten to try to use the little German I know. It is a joy to see that I understand more than I thought I would, and if I was braver I would probably venture into writing more in German than I do.

It is joy to meet so many Germans, nice bunch they are and phenomenal photographers.

Flickr, Danke shcön, vielen Dank.

We talked about groups earlier on this summer - still no groups.