ADAC COVER PARIS | MAGAZINE

While working in Paris on my project "Louvre avec Vues" the editor in chief of the ADAC reisemagazin Joachim Negwer called me up and asked me to do the cover for the celebration of 100 issues ADAC travel magazin. I felt honored to do so until he told me what the subject matter is: the Eiffel Tower.
Well, to shoot into a layout is a professional task. But to deal with a motif depicted a trillion times by tourist and professionals from all possible angels and to "make it look glamorous like a lady dressed for a celebration and painted by a French artist" is not a relaxing thought. I said yes, I would try. And walked away very worried.
The next day I examined the location and of course there are no surprises to discover. The only chance I saw was using the fountain basin below the Trocadero as a reflecting pool. But it is built in a way that it does not offer any access to get the tower in the middle of it. So the only chance to get the shot was to go into the water.
Night came, a warm spring night which did bring all Paris into the streets. On the lawn around the basin have been sitting thousands of young people watching the world go by.
And they got there show as Sebastian Rosenberg, my assistant and I took off our cloth and carried the equipment into the water.
We got a big hand and a lot of cheers - and the cover.