Saturday, June 21, 2014
Pilot information about Palanga, LT
This post will soon contain useful information about arriving and departing from EYPA, Palanga, LT and general information about Palanga.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Creep of the Day: "Michell Svensson"
I guy calling himself "Michell Svensson" is contacting models via MSN claiming he got work for them with H&M and SATS, saying they will have a long career thanks to him.
Strangely enough he does not have any pictures on his MB account: http://www.modellbilder.se/portfolio.php?id=60851 and on his recruiting page he can not spell and all model pictures are very small, just like they have been taken from the net: http://www.123minsida.se/modellkollektion1/47899642
His phone number is +46-707-1245XX and he is claiming he lives in Malmö, and he is very eager to have the models to call him.
Does anyone recognize him?
Update 12:17Z 26 Feb, 2011
The links above do not work anymore since the guy been banned from MB and taken down his models recruiting page. But the model who helped me with this case have a log of his claims and I have saved his pages in web archive.
Thank you all dear models for swift action stopping this guys in a matter of hours!
Update 18:48Z 26 Feb, 2011
"Michelle" just called me and gave sincere apologies promising not to do anything like this again. He also say that it was he who removed the page on MB. He still tried to talk a lot of trying to explain to himself that it was not that bad, even saying a friend got him into it. Yeah, right! "I have a friend who was on this porn site, and he said..." :-)
But I trust him that he learned a lesson, and he promised to give apologies to the model and photographer who's pictures he used.
Lesson's learned... I hope.
/Morre
Strangely enough he does not have any pictures on his MB account: http://www.modellbilder.se/portfolio.php?id=60851 and on his recruiting page he can not spell and all model pictures are very small, just like they have been taken from the net: http://www.123minsida.se/modellkollektion1/47899642
His phone number is +46-707-1245XX and he is claiming he lives in Malmö, and he is very eager to have the models to call him.
Does anyone recognize him?
Update 12:17Z 26 Feb, 2011
The links above do not work anymore since the guy been banned from MB and taken down his models recruiting page. But the model who helped me with this case have a log of his claims and I have saved his pages in web archive.
Thank you all dear models for swift action stopping this guys in a matter of hours!
Update 18:48Z 26 Feb, 2011
"Michelle" just called me and gave sincere apologies promising not to do anything like this again. He also say that it was he who removed the page on MB. He still tried to talk a lot of trying to explain to himself that it was not that bad, even saying a friend got him into it. Yeah, right! "I have a friend who was on this porn site, and he said..." :-)
But I trust him that he learned a lesson, and he promised to give apologies to the model and photographer who's pictures he used.
Lesson's learned... I hope.
/Morre
Saturday, January 22, 2011
The Canon Ixus 75 IWFF project
How many dinners and beers can a professional photographer earn working with a pocket camera in Thailand? I am about to get the statistics!
In a couple of hours I am off to Phuket, Thailand for well deserved vacation. Actually, it is the first one since January 2008. Back then I was on Phi Phi Island with models, shooting for a British publishing house for a month. The stay was so great I still call it vacation. (Thank you super-models!)
When staying at one of our locations, a luxury villa in Phuket, I played around with my Canon Ixus in our pool taking underwater pictures of one of the models. The result can be seen below and I was pretty pleased.
During my VIP tour for Models-n-Shoots I challenged myself shooting "impossible shots"; once again with my pocket camera, this time in badly lit bathrooms! Just shoot and export - no editing allowed (OK, I did make one into black&white).
But hey, it did not turn out bad at all.
So why not raise the bar?
When I am in Thailand, I will try to shoot people with only my Canon Ixus 75 and if they like the pictures, they will have pay me with dinner and beers.
How many dinners and beers do you think I can earn? :-)
/Morre
In a couple of hours I am off to Phuket, Thailand for well deserved vacation. Actually, it is the first one since January 2008. Back then I was on Phi Phi Island with models, shooting for a British publishing house for a month. The stay was so great I still call it vacation. (Thank you super-models!)
When staying at one of our locations, a luxury villa in Phuket, I played around with my Canon Ixus in our pool taking underwater pictures of one of the models. The result can be seen below and I was pretty pleased.
During my VIP tour for Models-n-Shoots I challenged myself shooting "impossible shots"; once again with my pocket camera, this time in badly lit bathrooms! Just shoot and export - no editing allowed (OK, I did make one into black&white).
But hey, it did not turn out bad at all.
So why not raise the bar?
When I am in Thailand, I will try to shoot people with only my Canon Ixus 75 and if they like the pictures, they will have pay me with dinner and beers.
How many dinners and beers do you think I can earn? :-)
/Morre
Saturday, November 20, 2010
My Polish & other phone numbers
Soon: Pozńan
Thank you Shell for providing the last sim card making my launch country phone number collection complete. :-)
Here are my numbers. Only my SE plus one is active until I get three more phones. I will feel like a drug dealer with five phones. :-)
SE +46-708-670901 [always active]
(NO +47-906 46 589)
(FI: +358-40-4631547)
(DK: +45-603 114 94)
PL: +48-797 493 619 [active!]
/Morre
-- Post From My iPhone
Thank you Shell for providing the last sim card making my launch country phone number collection complete. :-)
Here are my numbers. Only my SE plus one is active until I get three more phones. I will feel like a drug dealer with five phones. :-)
SE +46-708-670901 [always active]
(NO +47-906 46 589)
(FI: +358-40-4631547)
(DK: +45-603 114 94)
PL: +48-797 493 619 [active!]
/Morre
-- Post From My iPhone
Left the cloud-heavy Denmark
Next: Poznan, PL
So I am on the road again after a very short visit to Copenhagen, DK. But I had time to buy a DK phone number, talk with some Danish models over the phone curious about MnS and spend the evening with the very talanted make-up artist Gabriella Tipsa Bruun.
She had some friends that really are the type of models many customers are looking for now: warm, good looking and over 30.
I hope to be able to recruit them to Models-n-Shoots but by experience I know many of them can not accept the truth that the get job offerings as a model: "No, I am way to old for modeling."
Ladies! Time to upgrade your ego! :-)
I leave you with a nice picture from DK close to the port.
Time to get back in the bus and hit the German roads towards Pozńan.
/Morre
-- Post From My iPhone
So I am on the road again after a very short visit to Copenhagen, DK. But I had time to buy a DK phone number, talk with some Danish models over the phone curious about MnS and spend the evening with the very talanted make-up artist Gabriella Tipsa Bruun.
She had some friends that really are the type of models many customers are looking for now: warm, good looking and over 30.
I hope to be able to recruit them to Models-n-Shoots but by experience I know many of them can not accept the truth that the get job offerings as a model: "No, I am way to old for modeling."
Ladies! Time to upgrade your ego! :-)
I leave you with a nice picture from DK close to the port.
Time to get back in the bus and hit the German roads towards Pozńan.
/Morre
-- Post From My iPhone
Location:Dersekow,Germany
Friday, November 05, 2010
Bømlo and Bergen: check
Tour now: Oslo, Next: Stockholm
The one who invented Norway did not like traveling. What other reason is there to destroy any quick driving with mountains, fjords and islands? On top of that, throw some rain and early darkness, and you have the west coast in Norway in a nutshell.
Or maybe go viking gods just want me to get my IFR pilot license so I can fly there, even in that weather. Stavanger-Bergen in the bus: 4,5 hours. With the plane: 30 min.
But I finally made it out to Bømlo and make real of Birgitta's invitation. It is not everyday you are on historic ground with a goat farmer. She is a good cook as well. :-)
I think you get it—it was a good stay!
I would have loved to take a tour on the island but I had to work. It is a lot of things to do before launch and during daytime I am booked with calling ad agencies trying to find job for our Talents.
The shoot was challenging. To rainy to be outside and no location close, so we had to stick to the house. But the goal for the shoot was to show different side of Birgitta, making her portfolio wider.
But on my way to Bergen I got some peaks of the island.
But soon it was dark as all my other legs. "Is that a mountain? Where's the road?"
After 4 bloody hours, thanks to ferries and funky roads I was in Bergen. Ready to shoot Tale with help from her friend Karoline.
But according to their fridge they where ready for something else. :-)
Once again, due to lack of time, darkness and rain, we tried get some portfolio shots in her apartment. We got two I guess and Karoline is rather talented not only in partying, but making chicken salad as well. Best one I had for years actually!
Then it was time (01:00) to head towards Oslo. I got to Voss and then I went back in the bus and went to bed. So today, no time for calls but a super-sweet drive in the mountains.
And here are the pictures!
I will be interesting to see if they work.
The one who invented Norway did not like traveling. What other reason is there to destroy any quick driving with mountains, fjords and islands? On top of that, throw some rain and early darkness, and you have the west coast in Norway in a nutshell.
Or maybe go viking gods just want me to get my IFR pilot license so I can fly there, even in that weather. Stavanger-Bergen in the bus: 4,5 hours. With the plane: 30 min.
But I finally made it out to Bømlo and make real of Birgitta's invitation. It is not everyday you are on historic ground with a goat farmer. She is a good cook as well. :-)
I would have loved to take a tour on the island but I had to work. It is a lot of things to do before launch and during daytime I am booked with calling ad agencies trying to find job for our Talents.
The shoot was challenging. To rainy to be outside and no location close, so we had to stick to the house. But the goal for the shoot was to show different side of Birgitta, making her portfolio wider.
But on my way to Bergen I got some peaks of the island.
But soon it was dark as all my other legs. "Is that a mountain? Where's the road?"
After 4 bloody hours, thanks to ferries and funky roads I was in Bergen. Ready to shoot Tale with help from her friend Karoline.
But according to their fridge they where ready for something else. :-)
Then it was time (01:00) to head towards Oslo. I got to Voss and then I went back in the bus and went to bed. So today, no time for calls but a super-sweet drive in the mountains.
I will be interesting to see if they work.
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Our new boss: Martin
Tour now: Bømlo, Next: Bergen
So I am off on the Customer Launch Tour but a lot off things are going on at home. The techies are making Models-n-Shoots better, right now fixing the last bit of VIP customer demo switch, and making easier interface for Talents to handle their Portfolio.
But getting closer and closer to launch, we better have someone keeping it all together so we recruited a boss to Models-n-Shoots Europe AB.
Please welcome my old friend and colleague Martin Pettersson!
We got to know each other in Linköping and got more and more contact since Martin is very interested in photography. So now and Martin worked we me as a project manager and assistant for shoot, especially on my Maltese shoots. You will find him in some of my behind-the-scenes pictures.
It was actually during all the work getting all shoots together with the right team that the idea started of doing a service/application to handle the process from searching to replies from models. So Martin has been around since the start of the project and was one of the first to become a share holder of the company when we started last year.
So Martin will adding strength to our sales department and take care of the paper work at home, while I continue to focus on the developing the service, finding VIP customers and the right Talents.
Rock on! :-)
So I am off on the Customer Launch Tour but a lot off things are going on at home. The techies are making Models-n-Shoots better, right now fixing the last bit of VIP customer demo switch, and making easier interface for Talents to handle their Portfolio.
But getting closer and closer to launch, we better have someone keeping it all together so we recruited a boss to Models-n-Shoots Europe AB.
Please welcome my old friend and colleague Martin Pettersson!
We got to know each other in Linköping and got more and more contact since Martin is very interested in photography. So now and Martin worked we me as a project manager and assistant for shoot, especially on my Maltese shoots. You will find him in some of my behind-the-scenes pictures.
It was actually during all the work getting all shoots together with the right team that the idea started of doing a service/application to handle the process from searching to replies from models. So Martin has been around since the start of the project and was one of the first to become a share holder of the company when we started last year.
So Martin will adding strength to our sales department and take care of the paper work at home, while I continue to focus on the developing the service, finding VIP customers and the right Talents.
Rock on! :-)
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