The Rat's View

A Rat's View of the Chrysler Building

If I were a pop musician "A Rat's View of the Chrysler Building" would be my biggest hit. Almost always when someone talks to me about my photography this picture becomes a topic. I decided to make a new version. However, this new version doesn't show a New York City landmark. Instead, it shows the biggest landmark of my little hometown in Germany:

A Rat's View of the Limburg Cathedral

My hometown has a very old yet well maintained old part with "a full set of nearly unscathed mediaeval buildings".

Featured on FlattrChattr.com

I have the honor to be featured and interviewed on FlattrChattr. If you are not yet familiar with Flattr, it is known as a social micro payment system. Yes, this is about real money. Every time a Flattr user clicks on one of my Flattr-buttons, I get a little bit of money. Great, huh? To receive money however, you have to pay in something, too. Last month I got 30 clicks which translated to 30 Euros. My biggest Flattr revenue so far was in August 2010, when I received €135,65 (about $190). All together there are now 323 Euros waiting to be picked up. This is how much I received since I joined last year. Thank you all for Flattring my work! The article is right here.

The Castle of Runkel & Fundraiser News

The Castle of Runkel was built about 1059 A.D. and is located in a small town in Germany. If you're eager to know the exact location, you can follow this link. And if you are eager to have this picture on your walls at home, you may order it through my online store. And yes, my profits are still being donated to Japan in full.

Fundraiser news: FotoMoto has joined us!

Our "Photographers for Japan" fundraiser is still going on, and we just extended it once more till April 14. FotoMoto is the company that prints Steffi's and my pictures and sends it to you after you ordered it. They like our fundraiser idea so much that they decided to chip in their share of all our prints sold from March 14 till April 14. Meaning, it's becoming more and more worth getting prints from us to support Japanese tsunami victims. You can read about this on the FotoMoto blog.

"Photographers for Japan" extended!

It's been a couple of days now and our fundraiser is indeed generating money for the people in Japan (you can find my initial post about it here). Most photographers who joined us decided to keep this going till the end of the month, so I will do the same. Here is what happened so far on my side:

What happened so far?

- Paulo ordered a large print and let it ship from California all the way to Brazil.- John from Massachusetts got not only one from me, but also one from Steffi.- Veronica from Kentucky got a print, too. She is also supporting the project with her photography services.- My friend Fang ordered a whole stack of postcards that will be shipped to Shanghai. Awesome idea!Now Can from Germany asked for a good way for him to participate. If you are in Europe, buying through my store here on this website is not that feasible. You would have to get stuff shipped all the way from California. In that case you could go through my page on Artflakes.com. This is a rather new account. If your image of choice is not on Artflakes, you can email me and I will add it for you.Below are a couple more images you might like.

For German speaking visitors

So, dann will ich es auch mal auf Deutsch probieren: Mit der Spendenaktion "Photographers for Japan", versuche ich zusammen mit einer Reihe anderer Fotografen Geld für das Rote Kreuz zu sammeln. Ich biete euch an, meinen vollen Erlös, den ich bis zum Ende dieses Monats durch den Verkauf von Bildern erhalte, abzugeben. Das Rote Kreuz existiert ebenfalls in Japan, deswegen kann man den Tsunami-Opfern sehr gut über diese Organisation helfen (siehe Aufruf des Bundespräsidenten). Eine Spende lässt sich ganz einfach online direkt beim DRK durchführen. Wer möchte, dem biete ich wie gesagt an, indirekt über mich zu spenden. Dafür bietet sich meine Seite auf Artflakes.com an. Falls euer Wunschmotiv dort noch nicht vorhanden ist, könnt ihr mir gerne eine Mail schreiben. Ich stelle es dann umgehend für euch zum Kauf bereit. Nochmal in kurz: Alles was ich bis Ende März durch euch erhalte, geht nach Japan. Das ist der Deal.Hier noch ein paar Anregungen:

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