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Audition Photoshoot with Jessica Beardsell

Please enjoy these photos I created with ballerina Jessica Beardsell. Jessica is from Sydney, Australia. She is now in her second season as a member of the Zürich Junior Ballett.

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Photoshoot with Théo Just

Théo Just is a cheerful young French dancer in the Zurich Junior Ballett. He also enjoys choreographing.

Théo Just is a cheerful young French dancer in the Zurich Junior Ballett. He also enjoys choreographing. There were so many photos from this session that I love, so it was hard to make a selection for this blog post. I'll post some more on my instagram within time.

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Audition Photoshoot with Chandler Hammond

Please enjoy these images from an audition photo session I had with Chandler Hammond, a ballerina in the Zurich Junior Ballet Company.

Chandler is from Florida in the USA. She trained at the John Cranko school in Stuttgart, Germany, before moving to Switzerland.

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William Turner in Lucerne

Turner could truly paint the way he experienced a scene. Which brings me to his oil painting, “Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth”. This one really made me feel like I was caught in the vortex of the storm myself. “I did not paint... to be understood. I wished to show what such a scene was like.” – JWM Turner

“The Blue Rigi, Sunrise” 1842 JMW Turner

I visited Lucerne to see the special exhibition, “Turner. The Sea and the Alps”, featuring works by the famous painter J.M.W. Turner. I arrived in the morning before the museum opened, so I decided to hike along the city’s 14th century wall, the Museggmauer. You can climb three of its nine towers. Of course, I climbed them all! My mother in law doesn’t call me Bambi for nothing. (Not because I’m cute, alright, just because I have an urge to climb steep things. Deer like climbing things.)

Back to the exhibition. Have you seen the movie “Mr. Turner”, directed by Mike Leigh? That’s where I first became acquainted with the painter. The movie is also a work of art.

Between 1802 and 1844, Turner travelled to Switzerland six times. Until then people just saw the Alps as a hurdle to overcome to get to the South. Few landscape painters had given it much attention. Turner loved painting water and mountains, so Switzerland was obviously the place for him.

He travelled Switzerland sketching and painting with watercolours. The first impression you get when viewing his work is one of atmosphere. He was quoted saying: “Atmosphere is my style.” You may think it’s impressionistic. But then you start noticing the Romanticism, the rich details, some showing how people lived in those times.

One of Turner’s favourite subjects was Mount Rigi, which you can see across the lake from Luzern. His watercolour painting, “The Blue Rigi, Sunrise” 1842, gives me such a sublime and peaceful feeling.

*Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth by JMW Turner*

Afterwards I went to pay his muse, old Rigi, a visit myself. I crossed the lake from Lucerne to Vitznau by boat. Then I took the Rigi Bahn, a charming little cogwheel train on Europe’s first mountain railway. It took us literally into the clouds. So, the view was not clear, but the experience was surely enjoyable.

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Audition Photoshoot with Mariana Gasperin

I had the pleasure of doing an "audition" photoshoot with Mariana Gasperin.

Mariana comes from the South of Brazil. She studied ballet there at Porto Alegre and then at Canada's National Ballet School. Two years ago she joined the Junior Ballett in Zürich, Switzerland.