Johannes Leistner

Luba is an old village near Bajawa at the foot of Mount Inerie. The community still lives by the old Ngada culture. Their houses are constructed with typical high-thatched-roofes and the village has a small center where shrines representing the clan’s ancestors. As everywhere in Indonesia the people are very open and friendly and they welcome everybody. Even though we don’t speak Indonesian, it is possible to communicate with them.

Mount Kelimutu is a volcano which contains three summit carter lakes of varying colors. When we went up there very early in the morning we had to fight gusty winds and at first we couldn’t see any of the lakes, they were cloaked in clouds. Only every 10 minutes or so we caught a glimpse of the blood red, the turquoise and the deep blue lake.

to me this looks like the promised land but also I will promise to return to that land one day, since South Africa really is such a beautiful place to be!

seen at Cape Point, South Africa

What does a wedding photographer do at his own wedding? Yes – he takes the photos all by himself Not joking that is really what we did! But it happened that way because we wanted to be all by ourselves. So how does it work?
During the short ceremony with the wedding officer I had the camera mounted on a tripod (with wide angle lens) and used the serial photo function. Every 10 seconds the camera took a photo. This time period wasn’t too short, it was just right to capture the ring exchange and other important moments.
The really fun part was the photo shoot itself. Here I used a radio controlled remote to fire the camera. I also set it on a tripod, but this time with a telephoto lens, because I really wanted to knock out the background of the photos. Always at first I directed my bride to be in the right position, then I arranged the camera and the metering. At last, I joined my wife in that setting.
While standing in the right position we had so much fun by doing weird movements, kisses, hugging and all other stuff. With every change or every movement I released the button on the remote…

The results were really good (as you can see) and it was so much fun too! Of course you are limited with the kind of styles you can achieve but we have the photos we wanted in the way we wanted it!

The Table Mountain in Cape Town is an outstanding landmark of its kind! We enjoyed so much driving around it, walking on top of it and watching it from all sides with all kinds of weather and light situations.

The Table Mountain in Cape Town is an outstanding landmark of its kind! We enjoyed so much driving around it, walking on top of it and watching it from all sides with all kinds of weather and light situations.

Two times I had the chance to bring freshly married couples to Antonay Gormely’s installation “Horizon Field”, in the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. This was really a spectacular exhibition, which fitted perfectly to the ideas of marriage and the new phase of life which goes along with it! The swinging and reflecting platform not only opened new horizons for us, but also enabled me, to take remarkable wedding portrait which only a few couples in Hamburg own!