Hi all,

Those of you who read my "Gursky again" thread may remember that I suggested a meeting in Copenhagen.

Meanwhyle I could check some dates so that I would like to offer two suggestions for a meeting in Copenhagen: 24th/25th March 2012 or 14th/15th April 2012.

If anyone of you is interested in a meeting, please answer in this thread. In the case of enough members interested, I'll try to find out some more info about places of interest in Copenhagen. Maybe someone who lives in Copenhagen or nearby can give helpful hints.

Of course a visit of the Gursky exhibition is listed on the agenda:
http://www.louisiana.dk/uk/Menu/Exhibitions/Andreas+Gursky/Andreas+Gursky


I'm looking forward to reading your relies.

Peter

too bad i will be in the middle east this time.... 

Preferrably 14./15.4., plane tickets seem slightly cheaper and hopefully it should be warmer already. Wolfgang

Interesting! Will have to try showing up this time. Both options should work for me

The same goes for me.

I'll have to check. I'll get back during the weekend. And the second weekend seems to be the weekend after Easter, so I would not be surprised if tickets and hotels were less expensive as not so many people would be travelling.

Hi,

Booked! Gursky April 14th. It would be great to meet some 1x members there and then, and maybe go for dinner, pub or something in the evening =)

Also booked Copenhagen for 14th / 15th April.

So we are at least three who confirmed their visit:

Wolfgang, Björn, and myself.


Frédéric, Lars, did you also decide to come?


Anybody else interested?
Ralf, Jacob, you both are not far away from Copenhagen. Should be an easy task for you to join :-)

Peter

Come on, Ladies and Gentlemen, make an effort!

Do you really want to miss Gursky and the fine modern architecture in Copenhagen ... and the nice 1X members ... :-)

I'll have to look at this tonight. You all booked at the same hotel? Would be convenient if we were at least not in opposite ends of the city

No I don't think we are staying at the same hotel. But that shouldn't be a problem, we'll just have to decide when to meet at Louisiana on Saturday and afterwards we could perhaps go back to town together and grab something to eat or drink. Just an idea =)

I second this!

Sounds intriguing but even though I live in Copenhagen I'm in Berlin that weekend. Actually I will probably return to Cph on one of those two dates (14-15/april). But I don't know that yet.I even have not one but TWO pictures of this hotel in my humble gallery of published photos:-)

I'll look at it later. Checked a little, but seems to be a bad day to book at reasonable prices

I see the room rate increased for that period - single in Bella Sky is now around 110 per night on booking.comI'd hope to get my first publish then. Good advice, I'll take my tripod with me... Thanks

will have to visit you there to have a chance for some interior shots ;-)
Me too ... for night shots in the harbour area.

Lets see how we can define some kind of agenda. Saturday we need to find some transportation to the museum and back, Sat evening is probably great for the harbour, leaves Friday evening after 8pm or Sat morning for Bella Sky shots...

Hi there,

No problem, I have a car rent for two days :-)Exactly!I would visit you there after my arrival on Saturday morning :-)
Savoy.
We can go by car (see above) :-)

I have reserved the same hotel. Conveniently close to the city center and the train.

Sorry, I'm out. I might have to go to work before time. Tickets are non-refundable, so not booked.

What a pity!

Maybe at the next occasion ... when Jacob and Ralf invite us tu Uppsala! ;-)

That would be excellent. But we might have to split into two groups if we will be more than four persons. By the way, I'm staying at a hotel near the train station (I'm at work now and don't remember the name).

Savoy should be close-by then.

Yep. It's about half a kilometer from the train station.

Hi all,

I'll try to prepare a (limited) architectural tour for Saturday (after Gursky) that we can do together with the car I'd rent (if there is interest to join).

Very helpful for finding architecture locations is this guidebook http://www.dac-bookshop.dk/Shop.aspx?ID=48&ProductID=B6077@@SHOP1 (received it meanwhile) as well as looking at this site: http://www.cphx.dk/index.php?language=uk#/34282/

Peter

Sounds good.

Sounds really good. Start at Bella Sky would be more than perfect for me (and I guess thats a first architectural site, considering Dan has already 2 pictures published), afterwards I am ready to join any plans. Regarding the car we can split costs or I'll take the dinner, whatever fits the bill. Looking forward to a great weekend, Wolfgang

Yes, I am in there as well.

I leave already Sunday morning, so I'll take what I get on Saturday. Wolfgang

I also leave on Sunday at 21:00. But to be frank, for Sunday I planned to do something on my own ... but we can discuss that on Saturday :-)

Hei Wolfgang and Peter,

When I remember correctly it's 7:55. Then I have to look for the luggage, search for the rent car and then drive to Wolfgang to make some shots inside and outside the Bella Sky hotel.

One month to go, it's not too late - join us in Copenhagen in April!

I live in Copenhagen but I'm in Sweden in that weekend. I have heard good things about the exhibition and hope you will enjoy it. About the architectural photography in Copenhagen is not just Bella Sky but the whole area around it good place for that. At least when architectural photography means modern, minimalistic, lot of glass and diagonals, buildings with strange formations etc. (and doesn't it almost always do that?). Many of these types of subjects in Ørestaden and you could also look for it at the harbour front at Islands Brygge. I'm not really into architectural shooting myself but have often thought that I should do a tour out there. Hope you will have a good time in Copenhagen!

Meeting countdown: 3 weeks left

Additional participants are very welcome!

I agree. I would also recommend a walk down Christians Brygge/Kalvebod Brygge where you can find the Royal Library, Krystallen (office building) and the head quarter of SEB (Skandinavian bank). 

I've ordered their Guide Book some weeks ago :-) Very useful for planning some tours.

Thanks for your tips, Dan!

Meeting countdown: only 2 weeks left !

Additional participants are still very welcome!

Meeting countdown: 1 week left !

Last call for Copenhagen!

CU there.

So, it seems we're going to be four of us: Peter (KPK), Wolfgang, Björn and I. I may have missed somebody, so please speak up so we can try to coordinate things.

Frédéric, Björn, Wolfgang: Thanks for all of your preparation work!

Have a good and safe journey!

Peter

I wish all of You a safe travel, a wonderful weekend joy and good inspiration. Christoph

Thank you, Peter and Christoph. Will be fun. Travelling right after work. 

Wish you also safe journeys and looking forward to a fun weekend. Wolfgang

Great fun today at Louisiana. More info will follow :-) P.

Have fun in Copenhagen :) maybe we can hold a meeting in Bergen,Norway somtime too..would be cool :) 

Hope the Copenhagen Meeting was a great success and looking forward to seeing some delight for the eyes from there!

Yep, all safe back? where ar the snaps, where the works? :-)

Sounds like they had a fun meeting and probably relaxing now, sorting their shots?! ;)

sure - check my 1x homepage, I posted some shots there.

Fine, Wolfgang ! ...but too few of them   ;-)

thats right, and all far far in the distance :-)

He's saving the close-up portraits for the Frontpage you know ;-)

It was a great trip. Louisiana is always a treat, as is the Glyptotek which I visited on Sunday. And of course: very nice company! I'm already looking forward to the next 1x meeting. Berlin was suggested...

Cool, thank you for sharing ;)) Great to see you guys in action ;)

Returned a bit late last night so that first shots can be presented at the earliest later in the evening or tomorrow.

The meeting was great fun and Gursky was ... an experience. In any case a lot of stuff to discuss :-)
Louisiana museum itself is a fine lacation, too.

On Sunday I could use nearly the whole day - a little dulled by some rain in between - for visting architectural locations from my very long list. The hired car and my navigation device were really helpful here.

So all in all it was a very fine weekend together with very nice people.

Peter

Yes, Louisiana was great, and the Gursky exhibition was very extreme: images that were very good and others that were not really so great. Rhein II was in the second category, IMO. In additions, I found the print quality not so good: over-saturated. The reproductions in the catalogue were much better. 

... thats why Rhein III actually received top dollar :-) He improved saturation and overall impression after submitting Rhein II to critique.

Well, I added two quick made shots from the meeting here: http://kpk-photography.de/gallery/8556

Pure architecture images will be posted to my classic website ( http://kpk-photography.de ) or to the modern photo portfolio at PIXU ( http://kpk.pixu.me/ ) when postprocessing is done. This can last some days / weeks / months :-).

Peter

Hey, you guys, thank you for sharing ;) Would have loved to join but could not due to "family duties". Hope to be in next time;)

A very first Copenhagen architecture photograph can be seen here: http://kpk-photography.de/photo/119982/8558/

And as you can imagine, of course we followed the sign and crossed the sky through the connecting bridge at the top of the Bella Sky hotel towers :-)

Peter

Sorry, can't enter your site. See..

Naked walls???

Sorry Lars, noone else reported this problem. Maybe Jacob can help here but it seems as if it's a problem of your provider, but I'm not sure, I'm not an expert in these technical things.

The photo is as harmless as all my other ones. The photo has not included or embedded any keywords.

Can you access, Anna?

No problem to access your image Peter....So nothing wrong with your site

If you ask me. Access works well here as well ;)

can access and think Your capture very funny Peter :-)

Yes, and I concur with Christoph that the capture is very funny :-)

Friends, I posted now a slideshow on my homepage

I like the one with the moving bus a lot.
And the Gursky sky at Louisiona of course! ;-)

Definitely a problem with my company's firewall. For a while I couldn't access 1x, caused by "nudity". Our Canadian owners must have a strange way of thinking..

The images now can also be viewed in my PIXU blog: http://kpk.pixu.com/blog/2067

A short description about the Louisiana visit follows later the day or tomorrow in a second blog entry.
Further Copenhagen images will follow step by step.

Peter

Here's what I promised earlier today, a short story of our Louisiana visit. Have fun:

http://kpk.pixu.com/blog/2483

Nice weekend to all of you!

Peter

Left you a comment :-)

I'm going up there on a visit in a week or two, so it's nice to know a little about what to expect. Too bad about the presentation of  "Rhein II", but I can't help  wondering how much a bit of extra space would add to a picture like that:-)

You will discover it. Surely.
And you'll have fun :-)

One thing that comes to mind: people of the Gursky status can afford to produce whatever strange pictures, at least some of them, to please themselves only and not to care about the rest of the viewers. His more mainstream work is more than enough to maintain his status. And "strange" work at some point starts to work for him, not against him. That's the stuff bewildered viewers talk about, not so much about good pictures...

I just returned from the Gursky exhibition and I did discover the problem.....furthermore I think the reflections from the windows were extremely distracing in some cases. 

The number of finalized versions of Copenhagen images is growing. Meanwhile some are (and perhaps will be) published at the 1X website, some more can be viewed here:

http://kpk-photography.de/gallery/8558

A bit different is this one:

http://kpk-photography.de/photo/121783/5385/

Peter

And I haven't even started editing my photos... but your images inspires me to start doing so!