David Hepler Photography Blog » Photography http://www.heplerphotography.de/blog The life of an American Photographer in Munich Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:59:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Colleen and Luke’s Wedding http://www.heplerphotography.de/blog/2011/03/colleen-and-lukes-wedding/ http://www.heplerphotography.de/blog/2011/03/colleen-and-lukes-wedding/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:46:04 +0000 David http://www.heplerphotography.de/blog/?p=392 This weekend I had the honor to shoot a wedding for a long time friend in the US. I’ll be posting some pictures here over the next few days.

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One piece of news that you may have already seen on my website is that I have my new logo!

Also, my business cards are finished and they look great thanks to Kathi, my graphics designer and to all of you that I have asked for feedback from!

Another piece of great news is that I currently have a wedding booked next month! It is going to be a great wedding that I am really looking forward to with a chance to do some shooting in the Englischer Garten in the morning. In the evening the reception and dinner will be at the Palmenhaus in the Schloss Nymphenburger grounds, which promises to be great fun!

Finally, here are a few photos (posted from my Flickr account) of things that have been going on over the past month…

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I have done a few CV photo sessions recently, which has been good. Business is slowly picking up. It is not doing too bad, considering I haven’t really done much advertising, except for word of mouth and Google. Can’t wait to see what will happen after I do some advertising! If you are interested in booking a wedding, please book soon, so I can reserve a date for you! If you are in need of photos for a German CV or you would like to do business photos or have a portrait sitting, I’ll be doing a few coming up in the next few weeks. If you are interested, please send me an email or give me a call to book a time!

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I am still waiting on paperwork from the Finanzamt that I will have to fill out before I get my tax number. I also found out today that I need to contact the “Berufsgenossenschaft” to see if I am required to get accident insurance from them (I was told they normally should have contacted me already). After those things I should be done with the paperwork side of things. I still have some work to do with getting a logo made and designing business cards and then I can start advertising. I hope to get that stuff done soon! It has definitely not been boring trying to start a new business!

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So, I am one step closer to being a professional photographer in Germany!!

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Enjoy!

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]]> http://www.heplerphotography.de/blog/2009/08/big-changes-coming-soon/feed/ 0 Karsten and Irina's Wedding http://www.heplerphotography.de/blog/2009/06/karsten-and-irinas-wedding/ http://www.heplerphotography.de/blog/2009/06/karsten-and-irinas-wedding/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:36:55 +0000 David http://blog.hepler.org/?p=111 I have finally finished with Karsten and Irina’s Wedding pictures! I was able to give them most pictures already, but I still have a  few things to finish up before I can concentrate 100% on the next batch of pictures that I have already started working on (there will be a sneak preview on those probably some time in the next week!)

Here are some of the highlights!  

 http://photography.hepler.org/K_and_I_Wedding/

]]> http://www.heplerphotography.de/blog/2009/06/karsten-and-irinas-wedding/feed/ 0 David at work… http://www.heplerphotography.de/blog/2009/06/david-at-work/ http://www.heplerphotography.de/blog/2009/06/david-at-work/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:00:12 +0000 David http://blog.hepler.org/?p=102 Here are a few pics of me at the last wedding taken by my second shooter and friend who jumped in literally at the last second to help (thanks again Sai!).  I had free range to go anywhere I wanted so I was up on stage for the better part of the ceremony. I was hiding behind the alter for a bit though, so I was glad that Sai was able to get one shot of me on stage when I came out of hiding!

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