The last week in June promises to be very exciting with Aperture 2 all over the planet, well at least in New York and Manila see below some dates and venues starting from the 20th of June with a PhotoShelter special.
Aperture Day is approaching...
You find me at the Power Mac Center in Makati, Manila from June 21st to the 22nd. two days of Photography & Aperture 2, for reservations and more info I have provided a direct link to the Power Mac Center below.

Click this link

Manila
Aperture 2 Workshop (Free)
Learn more about Aperture with Apple-certified trainer Gunther Deichmann
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/

Dates: June 21 and 22, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm



Visit Power Mac Center at Greenbelt 3 to book your seat now!
Limited seats only
For more information call 7297087- 88
or email training@powermaccenter.com
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NEW YORK
Join AUPN at B&H for Aperture Day - June 23rd
by David Schloss 06-03-2008 filed in Blog > AUN News


Click this link
The AUPN will be presenting a day of seminars and instruction at B&H Photo in New York City, on June 23rd. Classes are free, registration via the B&H website (link below). Especially aimed at the iPhoto user and the photographer thinking of upgrading to Aperture 2, this session will tackle some of the hottest topics in digital photography, and answer your Aperture questions.
Aperture Day @ B&H June 23 seminar descriptions


All over the world with PhotoShelter

Click this link

Tags: NEW YORK, AUPN

Latest Press Release & info...

Stockinger Top Formula BMW Rookie Finisher in Action Packed Races, you can also find him now on You Tube... the TV coverage from last week, clips from his early days in Karting...

http://www.youtube.com/

Remember the Fast & Furious from my earlier blogs...he is getting very fast now.

Marlon Stockinger, sponsored by BMW and Swiss Private Bank Sarasin, put in a stellar performance last weekend at the Sepang International Grand Prix Circuit in Malaysia, where Asia Pacific’s Finest young racers gathered for a four-day race meeting. After struggling in the opening rounds of this year’s Formula BMW Pacific Championship during the recent F1 Grand Prix in Sepang, he is gaining confidence with each outing... read more on his brand NEW blog @ http://www.marlonstockinger.com/blog.html

May 16 - 18 Asian Festival of Speed, Sepang, Malaysia -
Rounds 7, 8, 9 and 10

Congratulations to Marlon Stockinger on his great achievement and win last week in Sepang Malaysia. No I was not around this time but his father and good friend Tom supplied me with these images & Press release below...

Press Release… excerpt from last weeks Formula BMW race
in Sepang Malaysia…

The Girls...

The Podium...
Photos © Tom Stockinger - more images soon on
Marlons website check the link below the article

Stockinger Top Formula BMW Rookie Finisher in Action Packed Races
Marlon Stockinger, sponsored by BMW and Swiss Private Bank Sarasin, put in a stellar performance last weekend at the Sepang International Grand Prix Circuit in Malaysia, where Asia Pacific’s Finest young racers gathered for a four-day race meeting. After struggling in the opening rounds of this year’s Formula BMW Pacific Championship during the recent F1 Grand Prix in Sepang, he is gaining confidence with each outing. “I made some smart overtaking moves and quick lap times. The team (Eurasia Motorsport) did an excellent job, the car felt great and it was really enjoyable. I think I am making progress. It helps build my morale and I can look towards the front of the field with confidence”, says Stockinger.
… Nara was away well when the safety car pulled off with Stockinger skillfully slipping into his tow and pulling away from the rest of the field. However, the unshakable Nara took the flag to record a superb second victory, joined on the podium by the triumphant BMW Juniors Stockinger in 2nd and Wootton in 3rd place. Due to the great results for this weekend Stockinger advanced from 5th to 2nd place behind Simon Moss of South Africa in the rookie classification and from 12th to 5th place in the overall drivers classification for the 2008 championship…
YOU can read the whole PRESS RELEASE and more photos next week on Marlon Stockingers website @ http://www.marlonstockinger.com/

Tags: Malaysia, Latest NEWS, Motor Sport, BMW MOTORSPORT

BURMA/Myanmar how much longer?
Another reminder!

It is the Typhoon/Monsoon season... how would we feel if we had to suffer like these beautiful and gentle people in Burma? The hard line Regime is still not moving, thousands more have to die...Why ?
A Country I got to know... not only for its culture but for it's beautiful people, they had a difficult life before... but NOW it is Genocide.
GD

Light of Hope?

© Gunther Deichmann - On the banks of the
Irrawadi River near Bagan,Burma/Myanmar 1996
(Original Image taken on Tri-X black and white film)
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/seasia1-5.html

Tags: MYANMAR/BURMA, Photo Journalism, Photography, BLACK & WHITE, Disaster, Typhoon Monsoon Season, Cyclone

BURMA needs our help more than ever...


© Gunther Deichmann - Burmese Indian Community north of Yangon

No need for many words but Burma needs help...I have traveled through this amazing and very beautiful Country years ago and the Burmese people are some of the most gentle in South East Asia...deprived of their freedom by a brutal Military Regime who will not even let outside help into the country in times of real need. This has to stop...
A group of Monks helped me many years ago from being arrested, now I have seen them getting beaten by the Military and Police why is outside help been delayed when it is needed most?
As a travel Photographer/Journalist I feel responsible to voice my opinion, even if this will not change the currant situation...lets hope there be a change for the better in the near future.
Buddha bless,
GD

Tags: NEWS, Disaster

This could also be a challenging event for Nikon v. Canon hence the NEW Nikon D3 & D300 with their incredible new sensor especially in low light conditions.
Let see who is the winner on this track...
But did you know that Aperture 2 or now 2.1 is going to be in China at the Olympic Games in full force, not me this time, but many Pro's going to be there using Apple Aperture 2 software...a lot more on this later.
GD

Due to popular request I have provided you the dates for the F1 Grand Prix and Formula BMW Racing events for 2008.
The most exciting and the very first F1 GRAND PRIX NIGHT race in Singapore is on Sep 26 - 28 (Rd 15 & 16) Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore

Formula BMW and F1 Grand Prix Calendar 2008

March 21 - 23 (Rd 1 & 2) Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia (along with F1)
May 16 - 18 )(Rd 3, 4, 5 & 6) Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia
June 21 - 22 (Rd 7, 8, 9 & 10 Zhuhai International Circuit, China
July 18 - 20 (Rd 11, 12, 13 & 14) Sentul International Circuit, Indonesia
Sep 26 - 28 (Rd 15 & 16) Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore (along with F1)
October 10 - 12 (Rd 17 & 18) Fuji Speedway, Japan (along with F1)

Tags: BMW MOTORSPORT, F1 GRAND PRIX, Formula BMW Pacific, Calendar, Events, Nikon, Aperture 2, Photography, SINGAPORE

“I want to own a Ferrari team” Aditya Patel is all tuned up…the first F1 Grand Prix at night supported by the Eurasia Team in their Formula BMW...

Wow…what a statement from Aditya…but then why not!
Back to the F1 Grand Prix and Formula BMW… this time a report from India.

Received two articles from Kamlesh Patel in Chennai India… Mumbai? India? Sounds very familiar… it is still around from one extreme to the next again.
OK. OK. That’s enough…back to our young Racing Driver from The Eurasia Team who made 3rd place recently in Sepang Malaysia.

Now the team is looking forward to the big and exciting race in Singapore soon, the very first F1 Grand Prix at night. Is this going to be very fast?
But for sure furious… The Formula BMW Eurasia Team with Aditya Patel & Marlon Stockinger will be there as the support race in their Formula BMW.

OK. That’s about it … see below some magazine articles from India featuring Aditya Patel & GOOD LUCK to the Eurasia Team.
GD

These articles just arrived from Chennai India...for more details visit
Aditya Patel's website click on the images or this link:
http://www.adityapatel.in/latest.html

Tags: BMW MOTORSPORT, FERRARI, Eurasia, Formula BMW Pacific, Photography, Gunther Deichmann, NEWS, SINGAPORE, Philippines, India, ASIA, Racing, F1 GRAND PRIX

To go to the Center click on the image
The Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA
" NPAK" in Armenian acronymis an alternative center for avant-garde
and modern art in Yerevan, Armenia

We have to take care of our PLANET and the ENVIRONMENT otherwise there be nothing left for our Children…
we all need to contribute & STOP Global Warming.

Click on the image above and view the Exhibition
with images and slide shows from all
the international participants.

The image above was taken in Palau Micronesia it was used as the Cover
for the official Exhibition Booklet, for other environmental related images
by Gunther Deichmann click the link below:
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/environment.html

As mention in one of my earlier Blogs some of my Images have been part of an international Environment Exhibition at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art.
For more detailed information I have provided some links below… many other international Photographers have contributed images for the Exhibition and environmental awareness, for a complete list of all the participants and sponsors including the WWF World Wildlife Fund in Armenia go to the provided links below…
I am happy and proud to have been part of this Exhibition in providing images creating awareness for our fragile environment.
GD

WHY BURNING MY HOME...THINK!

Slide show link of the images by Gunther Deichmann
http://www.davosstudio.com/Exhibition/Participants/Gunther%20Deichmann/




The walls:

http://www.davosstudio.com/Exhibition/The%20Walls.html


International participants:

http://www.davosstudio.com/Exhibition/participants.htm

Tags: Science, NATURE, Protect, Conservation, Global, Art, Photography,

Late NEWS can be good NEWS!

Sometimes it is strange how things come together, remember when I was reporting on the F1 Grand Prix and Formula BMW from Sepang Malaysia during the month of March, which was organized and sponsored by PETRONAS.

But first some more info on PhotoShelter before we talk about Aditya Patel from Chennai in India.
Below a screen shot of my PhotoShelter Archives web page…once you see that you know you in the right place… here is the link again.
If you click on the Yellow one that is for the Archive selection all the new images are allready there...the green one is for the PhotoShelter Collection… I am waiting on the editors now before you can view the latest images in the PSC too.

After the event I traveled to Mumbai in India…and I should have mention Aditya Patel, sorry I just forget, but you know it has been very hectic the past few month so please forgive me.
Aditya is Marlon Stockinger’s team mate in the EURASIA team, Aditya Patel from Chennai in India… another coincident? Maybe… since I left for Mumbai in India only
a few days after the F1 Grand Prix.

Now you might wonder what has all of this to do with Aperture 2 again… a lot… Aditya’s father ask me to send some high resolution images to him in India…
no problems I said… I uploaded the images of Aditya on my favorite… the Aperture Web Gallery and it was done even before I left for Mumbai.

See below some article I have just come across on Aditya Patel, another young upcoming driver… and I guess the fast and furious continues, congratulation on his achievement finishing an impressive 3rd place.
I guess I have to visit Chennai in the near future…
they don’t call it for nothing “Amazing India”
GD


Some Press releases below: BMW NEWS

FBMW Pacific: Eurasia Motorsport - Aditya Patel third in Sepang race one
24/03/2008

Eurasia Motorsport’s Aditya Patel finished an impressive third place in the first round of the Formula BMW Pacific Series held at Sepang Circuit’s Malaysian F1 GP support race. Team Mate Marlon Stockinger was tenth in an atrociously wet race.

The heavens opened as the cars pulled away on the formation lap and the track was awash by the time the lights went out for the start. Patel made a great start from seventh on the grid to slot into fifth place. Ross Jamison took the lead and was never headed whilst those behind struggled for visibility in the blinding spray. Patel was quickly up to fourth but spun under braking for the final turn attempting to pass Sean McDonagh. He was quickly under way again and was soon back in a battle for second place after McDonagh and Simon Moss also both suffered off course excursions.

Patel was past McDonagh into third place a couple of laps later and then hounded Moss to the line, just not quite able to find a way past. It was a great drive in just about the worse conditions seen in a F.BMW race in the region. Stockinger in his first ever car race was at one point up to seventh place but faded to tenth after a spin. “I couldn’t believe how little you can see in these conditions” remarked Stockinger.


22 Mar. BMW Motor Sport.

Podium for Aditya in Formula BMW Pacific series (New Kerala)

By Anand Philar, Kuala Lumpur, March 22:
Aditya Patel, a 19-year-old from Chennai, grabbed the third spot in the Formula BMW Pacific series amid heavy rain here Saturday as he made his debut in international singles-seater racing.

© Gunther Deichmann - Aditya Patel just before the
start at the Formula BMW Sepang Malaysia


© Gunther Deichmann - Aditya Patel during his wet but
winning race, Formula BMW Sepang Malaysia, March 2008

In my last blog I went to the extreme and brought you some Black & White images which is very unusual from me, but then you know I love contrast…

© Gunther Deichmann - early morning in the Mumbai Railway station...
I just love color and movement.



© Gunther Deichmann - early morning rush hour
in the Mumbai Railway station.



© Gunther Deichmann - light and shadow on the road
near Bollywood in Mumbai

I guess I did fall in love with the colors of Mumbai and India and like to share just a few more images with you before changing the subject… don’t worry a selection of images will be shortly on my Site
(http://www.deichmann-photo.com/) the PhotoShelter Archive and the PhotoShelter Collection (http://www.deichmann-photo.com/stock.html) but I have to catch up first with a lot of editing, paperwork and prepare for my next trip to Bali in Indonesia now.
I guess you have to stay tuned for the announcement… it wont be that long.

© Gunther Deichmann - amazing story telling decor in the
lobby area at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Mumbai




© Gunther Deichmann - the colors
of Mumbai



© Gunther Deichmann - just along the road
central Mumbai

Aperture certainly made my life a lot easier these past few weeks…from the extreme F1 Grand Prix in Sepang Malaysia where I joined Marlon Stockinger on his Formula BMW debut, remember the fast anf furious…to Mumbai India for the Apple Aperture World Tour and then straight to Boracay Island in the Philippines for a commercial shoot, it has been non stop and thousands of images later, a few hectic weeks have gone by.

© Gunther Deichmann - "catching the color"
near the Mumbai Railway station



© Gunther Deichmann - happy faces even
with a heavy load...



© Gunther Deichmann - the two images above... late afternoon along the road from Mumbai to Goa, women carrying bricks at a small building site, these clay bricks are manufactured right on site hence the dust and smoke from the nearby brick furnace.

If you are a photographer and shoot a lot of images then Aperture is the solution not only of its editing and management capabilities but the integration with the Mac…editing has become fun again…not to mention the new plug-ins soon available with Aperture 2.1 ( click this link for more info)

For me who is constantly on the road it is the ultimate software my “Road Warrior”
fast and efficient, Aperture 1 was the missing link in Photography but now with Aperture 2.1 Apple has set a standard for the workflow after the shoot and with an amazing image management system.

… enjoy the images, thanks to Aperture I managed to get them out very fast, now I can concentrate on my next trip creating images and not having to worry how I am going to edit them quickly and efficient.
GD

Extremes & contrast...Mumbai India



© Gunther Deichmann - Mumbai India, April 2, 2008

A very big thank you to Mumbai in India for the incredible hospitality, the people and the amazing colors around me and of course the great food.
Yes you have guessed right the Apple Aperture event in Mumbai is completed and I am hanging around for a few extra days and realized that I should have come to India a lot sooner.
The Journey continues through Color and Time... or more like contrast and extremes I have encountered the last few days and as you all know... I love contrast!
Thanks to the Apple Aperture team for having me on board and my special thanks to all the wonderful people I have met during the event and on the road.
See below some images from the Apple Aperture event and in the coming days I feature some images from my few days in and around Mumabi, yes Aperture 2 came again very handy, since the event I have shot some 1800 images in just a few days, it really helps to have a Road Warrior like Aperture around.

Sam Leung - Product Marketing Manager Asia Pacific
introduction into Aperture at the Grand Hyatt Hotel
in Mumbai India, April 1st. 2008

The only drawback since the digital age and the arrival of Aperture is that I get less sleep... in the old days you just marked your rolls of film and went to bed, but now you upload them and start editing right away...well do I get carried away, my fault...

Gunther Deichmann - during his talk about photography
on the road and after the shoot workflow.

Sam Leung - Product Marketing Manager Asia Pacific
during the Aperture Product demonstration at the
Grand Hyatt Hotel in Mumbai India, April 1st. 2008



A full house, the delegates at the Grand Hyatt Hotel...
Gunther Deichmann - during his talk about photography
on the road and after the shoot workflow.

The delegates at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Mumbai,
India, April 1st. 2008

Anyway with Aperture 2.1 at least it is quick and very efficient not like before spending hours on end in Photoshop, now I can get some sleep which reminds me I have to hit the sheets soon. Sorry for the delay of this Blog from Mumbai, but I hope you understand that I rather shoot and create images then writing all night long... there is just to much contrast and color around me at the moment.
Dont worry the blogs keep flowing again as soon I am back in Manila... with some more new and helpful information about Aperture 2.1
from Mumbai India...GD

The last lap and some images from the F1 Grand Prix before leaving for India for the Apple Aperture World Tour...

The flag of Malaysia at the Sepang Circuit.

The last lap from the F1 Grand Prix in Sepang Malaysia, then I have caught up before leaving for Mumbai in India on Sunday.
I hope for a better connection from the land of red hot chili peppers and tasty curries, it would be so nice to give you a live report from the Apple Aperture 2 World Tour in Mumbai, lets wait and see. Of course I be staying a few extra days and shoot some images…the Journey Through Color and Time continues.

Ok., lets wrap things up with Marlon Stockinger and the F1 Grand Prix in Malaysia, today I have included some behind the scene images and a couple cool action shots, a Ferrari and some action of the GP 2 plus the Formula BMW.
Kimi makes it so easy… Ferrari was leading the pack with Kimi Raikkonen placed 1st., 2nd was Robert Kubica in a BMW- Sauber & 3rd was Heikki Kovalainen in a McLaren.
Luis Hamilton the winner in the Australian Grand Prix recently placed himself at the 5th position in a McLaren.

Ferrari is leading the pack...

For our photographer friends some more info on Aperture 2 …I have already uploaded all the images from the F1 Grand Prix into my PhotoShelter collection…not bad in just a few days we provided you with some blogs and I prepared a Mac Web Gallery with medium size resolution images for Marlon, for press releases etc., etc.
Of course you can only access this one with a password and username, you might write to Marlon and get the access code, you find his personal info on his website @
http://www.marlonstockinger.com

The colors of Sepang during the F1 Grand Prix...
All Images in this Blog are the copyright of
© Gunther Deichmann, 2008 click the link to visit his website.

All of this was done within Aperture 2 dealing with some 3000 images and never leaving the program, talking about efficiency and speed.

We are currently updating Marlon's Photo Gallery on his personal site, check it out in a few days @ http://www.marlonstockinger.com/gallery.html
GD