The first production trip of the 2004 season leads us for a week to Sardinia, the second largest island of the Mediterranean. While the north of Sardinia is quite strongly developed for tourists, the isolated southwest lives in a pronounced shadow. Even though one finds there actually everything a tourist could wish for: beautiful, secluded sandy beaches, a picturesque highland and original villages and towns. But, that's all the better for us - at least no one disturbs us there!

Our path also leads to an almost completely unknown chapter in the history of this island: mining! Since early antiquity, Sardinia was one of the most productive mining areas for coal and ore in all of Italy. The mining was not discontinued until during the 20th century, in most cases, because it was no longer profitable - what remains are ruins from mines, which today offer an image of morbid romanticism in all their different stages of decay. On a trip scouting for locations last year, I found several of these which will provide a wonderful setting for our girls!

While planning this production, I took the experiences from my trip to Spain last year into consideration: there will be no hobby photographers around this time because they did disrupt things quite a bit. For that, the parallel production of videos in addition to my photos proved to be such a success, that Marek, my cameraman and producer, will also be along this time. Still more: he has a second cameraman, Michael, with him, in order to film all the scenes with two cameras simultaneously, as is usual in professional film productions. The different perspectives will offer much better possibilities for later editing and should decisively improve the result. Besides this, what's also new is that, for the first time, I will have an assistant along, Jan from Dresden. He is to relieve me of not only organizational things, like shopping or driving, but also with his help, I can work for the first time with professional light reflectors, which provide much better light than my flash device which I'm otherwise dependent on.

As accommodation, this time I've rented a house near Cagliari in the south of the island. This is somewhat cheaper than a hotel and should be good for the atmosphere. As last year, I've also booked four models and a make-up artist. After months of preparation we can finally get going the last week of May!

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