WEISSENSEE TOURISM | CATALOGUE

Winter had started without any snow, and then it suddenly brought us
one and a halfe meter.
Brigitte Garz of the Weissensee Tourism and I finally managed to take
the opportunity of dark blue skies above a fairytale landscape to
execute this much-needed work on the pleasures of winter sports on
and around Weissensee.
I am very happy that we could get it done because last winter we had
to postpone our work already due to difficult wheather conditions. To
photograph this job was a real pleasure because Brigitte did organize
a great team of helping hands an beautiful amateur models.

GEO AUSTRIA 02|2007 | MAGAZINE

Geo Austria 02|2007 publishes the story "The Airplane Factory", researched and photographed at the Wiener Neustadt plant of Diamond Aircraft Industries. The text was written by Dr. Hanne Egghardt.

MAGIC CARPETS | BOOK

Linda Chase, famous interior designer and author based in Conneticut and I met Dr. Walter B. Denny in Amherst for the last chapter of our "Opus Magnum" on oriental carpets. Dr. Denny is professor of art history at the University of Massachusetts and the only scholar to lecture on Oriental Carpet Studies at a "Western" University.
We expect to finish writing, editing and designing of "Magic Carpets" by the end of March 2007. The final decisions about the print run and the number of pages (600 or 1001) will be made within a couple of weeks.
In an imaginary exhibition, the book tries to bring together the most important oriental carpets in the world and the expert voices of the people who preserve them for the memory of mankind. We follow the traces of these carpets from Pazyrik in the Altai Mountains to Los Angeles, visiting 14 countries, numerous museums and private collections and meeting the most fascinating people who are willing to share their knowledge with us.