I had already begun to undertake trips of greater distance with the girls for my productions last year. Until now, however, we had only gone to southern France - I wanted to begin the summer season 2002 in early spring, but the production should be bigger, more exclusive and of greater expense than previously. So I had my eye on the Canary Islands: easily reached, blessed with a convivial, unproblematic climate (or at least I thought back then). In February 2002, I scouted locations in Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura intensively for two weeks. The popular main island just wasn't for me, but the two rather brittle, desert-type islands proved quite yielding.

For the actual production, it meant, however, a totally new organizational and financial effort: it was our first trip where flying was involved and also the first trip with four models all at once, since, of course, it wouldn't have been worth the cost and effort with only two. Because I wanted to work on Fuerteventura as well as Lanzarote, to make use of the completely different atmospheres of both islands, there was a lot to get organized. And something else was completely new: since I didn't always need the girls, thus giving them lots of free time, it was an opportunity to bring along another photographer. I had found an artistically ambitious and very experienced hobby photographer in Robert from Vienna, who was very enthusiastic about the idea, and whose style showed an extremely interesting contrast to my own.

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