Photos and the City

Category: Portrait

  • Haworth Main Street

    bronte, literature, village, yorkshire, haworth, small, main street, shops, cute, holiday, travel, cobblestone, england, photos and the city, actor, portraitAbout half a mile long, going steady up, filled with lovely cottages, shops and cafés  – the lively Main Street in Haworth invites you to take a little stroll!

    And is also the perfect backdrop for a little photoshoot with actor Ciaron Davis, who was incorporating his inner Heathcliff.

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    Haworth became famous as the village where the Bronte sisters wrote their classic novels, often inspired by the surrounding moors. But at the time of the Bronte sisters Haworth and most of Yorkshire wasn´t that picturesque village we see today…

    Haworth in the mid 1800’s was not the romantic village that one thinks of when reading all those books written by the Bronte sisters, but in reality was quite a grim place to live and had many social problems because of it’s poor water supply and virtual lack of sanitation. (Bancrofts from Yorkshire)

    Yorkshire was filled with mills and factories and most of the workers lived in very poor conditions.

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    Pastor Patrick Bronte, the father of the Bronte sisters, petitioned for clean water and better healthcare. Luckily we don´t have to worry about this today. The BBC movie “To walk invisible” shows how much darker Haworth probably looked during the times of the Bronte and was shoot in and around Haworth.

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    Today we can enjoy a lovely variety of shops and coffee houses along the main street leading up to the church and the parsonage.

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    This archway was called “Gauger’s Croft” –

    “A Gauger is an old name given to the exciseman whose job it was to put down illicit distillation and smuggling.” (Haworth Village)

    This area was probably used to store wine and spirits for the surrounding crofts.

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    The Cabinet of Curiosities – this was my favourite shop, filled with lovely & funny little things and I just had to go in every time I passed by. During the time of the Brontë family, this used to be the druggist house where Branwell Brontë bought his Laudanum, an opiate.

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    Haworth has hosted many movies and tv shows in the last centuries, like “The Railway Children”, “Yanks”, “Wild Child” and “To walk invisible”, the BBC movie about the Brontë sisters.

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    The old schoolhouse on the right and the parsonage on the left.

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  • Ophelia

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    Summer has arrived in Vienna, it´s getting hotter every day, which means it´s time for our annual Ophelia photoshoots in and around Vienna!

    What better way to spend a hot day than enjoying it in (and around) water.

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    There are so many opportunity to get a little swim in and around Vienna, so there would be something different for everyone! From a tiny oasis at Mühlwasser to the Wien river or the Danube to a private pool. How would you like to be photographed?

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    This June we designed a special package for all water-themed photoshoots in and around Vienna, for more information get in contact or go to my portraiture page or just watch this little video!

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    Get in contact and let’s create some memories to keep forever, a summer you will never forget!

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  • Art & Portraits at Donaukanal

    For many, many years the Donaukanal, a former arm of the Danube, now a regulated water channel going through Vienna, was more or less ignored – a real Viennese “Gstättn“. A Gstättn means a grassy patch of land in the city, mostly ignored by official city planners (until it´s decided to build something on it).

    In the early 1990is, the southern section was transformed into a more recreational area with playgrounds, grass and lots of benches. The section along the first and second district only made it´s revival some years ago, when the first cafés opened and part of the paths gets transformed into beaches during the summer, even a floating swimming pool was opened – and suddenly the former Gstättn became one of Vienna’s hot spots the whole year round. there is always something going on.

    Art Collectives working there, street art (it´s actually legal to spray there), boats going to Bratislava, sporty zones, cafés and much much more can be done at the Canal. It´s also a wonderful location to takes pictures and use as a backdrop for portraits and fashion photography. Or take a photo walk with me. Airbnb Experiences now are also available in Vienna, there are quite a few to choose from and one of them is a photo walk along the Donaukanal.

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    Don´t hesitate to get in contact, if you´re interested in booking your own photo walk in and around Vienna! For more information on the one at Donaukanal have a look at Airbnb!