Gran Canaria, impressions

Here some photos of my trip to Canary Islands, Spain, Feb. 2010 [album id=1 template=extend]
#Portrait 054, Mr. “Always Busy”, Unai, Gran Canaria

03.March 2010, Unai, business- and sportsman. Together with his wife Laura he runs the wonderfull Finca La Salud you can see in the back. Thats an old historical Finca in the northeast of Gran Canaria. Years ago it belonged to an old Benedict monastry. We spent there 3 weeks and Unai was my last portrait [...]
#Portrait 053, Paco, Spain meets Berlin in Gran Canaria

02.March 2010, my daily portrait shows Paco from Telde, Gran Canaria. Paco spoke perfect german, he lived in Berlin for more than 18 years, before he came back to Canary islands. Now he works at Lizarran a big restaurant chain in spain. They serve finest Tapas and Spain food in many places all over the [...]
#Portrait 052, Wendi, sand artist with sculpture

01.March 2010, olympic games are over and life goes on. My next portrait is Wendi from Czech Republic. She built up these fantastic sand sculpture together with Miguel on the beach of of Las Palmas. It shows different moviestars in a big TV screen all built on sand. It took more than 4 days to [...]
#Portrait 045, Petra, 18th Hole, Real Club de Golf

15.Feb.2010, We met Petra at the Real Club de Golf de Las Palmas. Petra lives in Bielefeld and spends her holidays with her friend here in Gran Canaria. The Golf Club is the oldest in Spain, founded 1891 and is situated round a volcano with spectacular fairways and views
#Portrait 041, Adoney a wine worker, Gran Canaria

11.Feb.2010, the first portrait from the canary islands, spain. It shows Adoney, a young man who works for a wine maker in Gran Canaria, where I spend a time out for the next 3 weeks. Today his work was to protect the young grave plants against varmints, so he used the shown protective clothing. I`ll [...]

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