A picture is worth a thousand words!

Hey guys,

today I want to introduce to you: my dad! His name is Franz, he lives in Werndorf, wears glasses, his hobbies are ..... - naah, just kidding ;)

What I'd like to share with you is my dad's artwork - he is a hobby photographer and actually really good. Everything started when he was a little boy: He used his first salary to buy his very first camera. Now, almost 30 years later, he is still really into photography and a few years ago he refurbished our basement, transformed it into a photo studio and "Foto Franz Rauch" was born.

 

Since a picture is worth a thousand words I'd just like to show you some of my favorites:

 

 

  

In January I already blogged about a special project organized by my sister Kathi and her classmate Chrissi. It was called "DiverCITY" and the aim of the project was to show representatives of all different music genres (like rock, rap, classical music,...) mixed up with a completely different genre in order to demonstrate respect for each other. My dad took the pictures for that project, here are some of my favorites:

 

He also made the calendar for my sister's soccer team, here you can see the front page and the month February:

 

I hope I could whet your appetite. You can find more of his work on his Facebook-Page Foto Franz Rauch! :)

Btw: If you are interested in a shooting, just write him a Facebook message :-)

"Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph."

– Matt Hardy

diverCITY - or what to do this Thursday evening

Approval, cooperation and tolerance - that's what my sister Kathi and her friend Chrissi try to achieve with their "Maturaprojekt". As both of them are in their last year at HLW Schrödinger and close to graduation, they had to organize an event as their last project. Kathi and Chrissi decided to organize an exhibition, to show that different music genres and especially their representatives can actually cooperate, get along with each other and especially have a lot of fun together.

Hip Hop, classical music or folk music - those and many other music genres will be represented at the exhibition the two friends pulled together.

The pictures show representatives of all different genres mixed up with a completely different genre or in a rather unusual pose. Kathi and Chrissi found a really talented photographer who just happens to be my dad ;)
He's actually really good, you can find some of his work on his FB Page: http://www.facebook.com/FotoFranzRauch
Of course the pictures of this exhibition are not online, but I've already had a short glimpse at them and I can assure you the exhibition is definitely worth a visit.

You can see the result of this experiment at the "Stern Bar" (Sporgasse 38). For those of you who have no clue where that is: Just get off the tram at "Hauptplatz" and take a right:



This Thursday (January 31st) the exhibition's opening will start at 6.30 p.m. There will be a deejay and I'll be there for sure and I would love to see as many of you guys there as possible - since most of the exams will be over by then we could also clink our glasses and celebrate that we survived the last weeks ;)
If, for whatever reason you can't make it this Thursday, the pictures will stay at the bar for a month, so whenever you have time just stop by and take a look while drinking a delicious cocktail or a cold beer ;-)

You can also join the facebook group http://www.facebook.com/events/390021234424368/ for more information, or if you have any questions feel free to ask me (:

Looking forward to seeing you there,
Julia