The photo is from Plymouth taken during the America’s Cup World Series. It’s also included in my 2012 Sailing Calendar and has already been published as double page on the current issue of Swiss Boat Yachting.

The image features Emirates Team New Zealand leading the fleet approaching the first mark after the start, it was a very special moment shooting from the first mark in this kind of event.

Will keep you posted on how the votes are going, right now my image is on the 3rd position which is already great so every vote counts.

Thank you

Juerg

Langsam steigt das Interesse an der 3D Fotografie. Heute wurde auf der meisst besuchten Schweizer Fotowebseite ein Interview publiziert über die 3D Fotografie.

Ich bin wirklich gespannt auf den Feedback der Photo10 Besucher über das Thema  3D Fotografie.

Das Interview finden sie hier:

Click on the image to see the calendar and order online.

The winter is slowly approaching, every year when it get’s colder we print the next years calendar. A bit like the Christmas cookies during the childhood. It’s the third edition, and this year it’s a very special one. We will only print 555 copies, so don’t wait too long and get your copy.

Next week the plane takes me to Dubai for the Louis Vuitton Trophy. I’m already looking forward for the amazing sunsets. In Dubai we will produce the official Louis Vuitton Trophy book, telling the story from the first event in Auckland until Dubai who will be the last of this series.

After Dubai before coming home for Christmas we fly to Fremantle Australia for a shooting with Marazzi Sailing in the Star. The Fremantle Doctor, name of the famous local wind, will give us the chance for big wave action shots.

The new year will start with the Barcelona World Race, and on the 9th of January in Zurich we plan a big yachting 3D multimedia show in cooperation with the Photo 10 and Cornèrcard.

Best regards

Juerg

It has been a long way. Since I’m shooting I always had the feeling to show only part of what I saw in my photos. Specially in yachting photography I had the desire to show more give a feeling of dimensions and distances. The photos you see below is small selection of 3D photos taken in the last months. You have to wear a pair of anaglyphe 3D glasses red/cyan with red on the left side.
I would like to thank Nikon for there support with lenses and body to test and find out the right equipment, Rodenstock to provide over 100’000 3D paper glasses for the first publications and Daniel for his great ideas.

Juerg

PS: Click here or on the image to see more

I think this is someting new, al least in the yachting photography an iPhone application with lot’s of sailing pictures.

What do you think? I really like it and just the idea to have access to my best images is cool. Fot those who have an iPhone, here is the link:

http://itunes.apple.com/ch/app/jurg-kaufmann/id367414141?mt=8

or click here

Enjoy it it’s for free

Jürg

Multimedia Roadshow presented by Cornercard

After almost 4 years travelling around the world driven by the passion for sailing and shooting the sailing most spectacular races and boats we present the best images in a multimedia show.

During the show you will see the best photos from the last America’s cup, Volvo Ocean Race, Olympic Games, AudiMed Cup, Classic Yachts and the latest shootings of this year such as star worlds etc.

On each evening one of the two Swiss professional sailors Flavio Marazzi and Christian Scherrer will share their experience and passion for sailing with you.

Thanks to help of Cornercard as presenting sponsor and the partners Odlo, Nikon and Kaenon we are very pleased to announce the tour and the dates.

27.4.2010 Muralto Palazzo Congressi
Opening 19:30 Start 20.00
Special Guest Christian Scherrer

03.5.2010 Romanshorn, Hotel Bodan
Opening 19:30 Start 20.00
Special Guest Christian Scherrer

04.5.2010 Yacht Club Zug
Opening 19:30 Start 20.00
Special Guest Flavio Marazzi

06.5.2010 Bern Kursaal
Opening 19:30 Start 20.00
Special Guest Flavio Marazzi

07.5.2010 Zürich Volkshaus
Opening 19:30 Start 20.00
Special Guest Flavio Marazzi & Christian Scherrer

Book tickets online: www.ticketino.ch

Tickets online @ www.ticketino.ch a 15 CHF

Today Nikon announced the new Nikon D3s. I was expecting a new semi pro camera something between the D3x and the D700, a high resolution camera with with aprox. 20 megapixel at a affordable price.

Dreamer..the D3s is a 12.1 megapixel camera with great ISO values. The big surprise was, it takes video. Why not,  this is the ongoing discussion in the mediacenters at big events. All photographers are talking about the two worlds getting closer to each other. Honestly I’m not so sure.

Recently at an event the organizer hired a film crew who  worked on the water and up in the air without gyroscope. I never getseasick no matter how big the waves are but the outcome by watching this movie I almost got seasick, this TV crew was simply useless.  Now everyone believes that videos out of the still camera will change the market. I’m really questioning that.

I doo like changes and I take changes as a chance to do business but this time I have my doubts. Today in the yachting photography we are trying out so new angles to get more dynamics in to the images (have a look at this one), when I used the D3x in Singapore for the Volvo Ocean race felt the freedom to crop the image and this was a real new way of working. I didn’t bought the D3x as I believe it’s simply too expensive to go out on the saltwater with such a camera. This explains why I’m waiting for the Nikon semipro with 20 megapixel.

For the home/family use a camera doing also video is great but do we really need that in the PRO world? Are the good still moment similar as the good video moments? I think not. For the daily use on websites and agencies for the press this may be a solution. Two weeks ago Lynn, Daniel and I we just finished the book of the Voiles de Saint-Tropez and we have been very hard on us to choose the images for the book. Many of them are unique moments where the before and after doesn’t really matters. It’s rather a split moment captured who also gives you a bit of interpretation freedom about the before or the after who makes the image better.

Question: What is more sensual a beautiful women completely naked or dressed with a shirt where you can’t see anything but imagination goes wild?. Isn’t a video different from sill image? Browsing in the web about video and the still discussion I found a post from APhotoEditor he believes that top shots with a good headline are more successful as videos. On top it takes much longer to get the video edited and up on the web as a image.

What do you think about this?

Juerg

After 2 weeks shooting the classic yachts on the cote azur…here is my best image, enjoy….
See the book online

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PARTNERS IN TRADITON – CLASSIC and MODERN YACHTS in SAINT-TROPEZ

Saint-Tropez, France (September 26, 2009) –Yachting photographers, Juerg Kaufmann and Daniel Forster, and sailing writer, Lynn Fitzpatrick, have teamed up to produce a coffee table book of Les de Saint-Tropez entitled PARTNERS IN TRADITON – CLASSIC and MODERN YACHTS in SAINT-TROPEZ. The book will be packed will stunning images and highlights of the yachts, people and atmosphere of the event.

The regattabook’s development can be followed online at regattabook.com. Each day we will reveal the images that the team will publish.

The 10th anniversary of the event will be exceptional. This year, Les Voiles celebrates the 100th year anniversary of Tuiga and her sistership, Mariska. Many of the world’s most beautiful traditional yachts such as Elenora, Cambria, Shamrock and Moonbeam will ply the same waters as the stylish Wallys. Additionally, all five of Eric Tabarly’s Pen Duick yachts will be assembled in the marina and raced during the day.

The regattabook will capture the essence of the event – the excitement, the venue, the yachts, the organizers, the partners, the characters and personalities that sail these boats. From the quiet of first light to the cacophony of 300 boats leaving port and the Mistral whistling through the rigging, the regattabook will enable you to live vicariously and remember a decade of regattas marking the close of the summer sailing season in the Mediterranean.

Last year I did my first calendar with images from the Olympic games. Many of my readers are enjoying the calendar every day now.

Now it’s time to plan the 2010 calendars. Yes we do two, a racing calendar with Swiss and international regatta images and the classic calendar. The images are chosen and together with the editor Sailing Media we publish it, the focus of the exclusive black and white images is the famous Belle Classe, some of the yachts are Tuiga, Mariquita and a few more.

Have a look at the images: