The Hive 2012

This weekend the first European Blog Conference The Hive took place here in Berlin.

Some months ago I grabbed a ticket, because I thought this would be a great thing to attend.

And it was!

Berlin showed its bright side - not only figuratively.

The weather could not be nicer and the colours not brighter.

I didn't turn the above picture. They meant it. Upright.

TV Tower peeping.

I attended many great, interesting and inspiring presentations. One of them was done by these two ladies: Thea und Toni of Sister Mag. By now they have published the second issue of their digital magazine and they do an incredible job. I love its look as well as its content and can spend hours with it...

They talked about new and traditional media and since they are two digital natives, they were of course one of the first to load their presentation up to the web - if you want to have a look at it: it's over there.

Another very interesting presentation for me was the one of Freunde von Freunden. They are also a kind of digital magazine (did I mention I like digital magazines?) and they interview people in their personal environment. It's a mixture between interview and photography. I stumbled across them a while ago and since then like to browse through their wonderful website.

One of my personal highlights was the Food Photography Workshop lead by Anne from Anne's Kitchen. Her blog is really inspiring in terms of cooking as well as photography. So yummy!

I learned a lot and it was great fun! Anne is a very warm person and her enthusiasm was really contagious.

And here are some of my experiments :)

And thank you to the 3 ladies of The Hive who had the idea, the courage and the passion to organize this great conference!