Nice, nice! Just learned about the nice beta testing of the new DA portfolios and I really have to say this looks great! Can´t wait to play around with that stuff tonight, when I have a bit more time.
This feature came at the right time, since I was about to update/change my portfolio anyways. Judging from what I´ve seen/read it´s gonna be quick and easy to customize. We´ll see.
Gonna present my result once I´m through with it. Now I only have to come up with a decent domain name for that, since we can pick one .... Phew... Full name? Nick name? Something completely different? Any opinions on that, folks?

Apart from that I fi-na-lly have to come up with my decision for the festivals this weekend....should I go to With Full Force tomorrow despite having tons and tons of stuff to do or not? And if not driving to this festival about 500km away, should I go to a smaller one about 130 km away instead? Or no at all? Sounds like insanity vs sanity. (not to mention that it sucks even more having two photopass for exactly the same weekend, whereas there´s nothing at all at other weekends - yes luxurious problem...) I don´t like this kind of decisions....

And thanks a lot for the favs/comments! More stuff from Metaltown coming soon! Children of Bodom pics are already up on music-photocalypse.

This or that way, hope you´re all going to have a nice weekend without melting (like we do here in Germany right now).

Over and out for now!

29.06.2009
Back from Sweden and Metaltown Festival!
Those were some really cool and (well halfways)relaxed 4 days that were over way too fast.
Lots of nice people, some of them, who I hadn´t seen for quite a while, great bands and damn nice weather. Constantly between 25-30 degrees, an almost cloudless sky. Sometimes even too warm, but at least I survived without a sunburn.

Managed to photograph nearly all the bands - except for Slipknot, who went totally nuts with photo permission and only 10 out of roughly 40 photographers managed to get into the pit. However I managed to get some nice place near the soundtower and shot a couple of pics from there, hope they turned out acceptable. Marilyn Manson on the other had no restrictions at all, apart from 2 songs instead of 3. However this gig was not as interesting to photograph as Slipknot would´ve been. Yes... so far, so good. Going through the pics now and uploading them soon. The bands I liked the most were The Haunted, Opeth, Meshuggah (yes, fi-na-lly I saw them live!), Volbeat, Cult of Luna. My Dying Bride unfortunately had to play in bright daylight...too bad, this would´ve been so great on either the tentstage or lateron, when it was a bit darker... What I absolutely didn´t like where Girugämesh and Dir En Grey, even though it was nice to photograph them. But it´s simply not my kind of music. The very last band of the festival was a gig of Burst, who played at the aftershow party in a bar called Parken, really cool gig!

So stay tuned for pics coming up here and on music-photocalypse. Pics from Summerblast are also waiting, just need a bit to go through all of them.

Next weekend it´s either time for With Full Force Festival (long way to drive) or Vainstream Beastfest (shorter way, less interesting bands). Would love to go to WFF, but I´m still not sure, whether I´ll be able to make it... We´ll see...