Photo Life - Wolf Kettler Photographer

Stock photo uploads (21/5/13)

Wolf — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:03:24 +0000

The photograph of this delightful, derelict window is one in a series, which have been added to my stock photography portfolio at Arcangel Images.

See the entire collection here

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Zum Abschied: Sunday (A very short story)

Wolf — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:26:27 +0000

Another beautiful morning. The sun was as flirty as the spring maiden that she is. The man could feel the laziness of a summer Sunday in the houses that surrounded the garden, where he was eating a sparse breakfast consisting of buttered, dark rye bread and tea in a mug. Even the distant hum of the traffic moved at a more sedate pace than during the week.

The man closed his eyes and moved his face towards the sun, which felt surprisingly strong for this time of the year. The sound of church bells from the direction of the town was familiar since his birth fifty years earlier and comforting yet not consoling. He noticed the lazy thunder of a large motorbike that carried its rider into a road movie adventure or perhaps only to the tree around the next bend for a quick death.

A cactus of forty or more years of age, nearly as old as the man himself, leant against the white wall of the house. It was the first time in decades that he had exchanged the comfort and boredom of his window sill for the outdoors.

“Farewell, dear, old, always observing and never judging friend”, thought the man. “I hope they look after you well and treat you kindly.”

The man was all too aware that the manifestation of his early life would soon be confined to memory. The answer to all his hopes and aspirations had always been a stern ‘no’ and it had taken him nearly half a century to break free not in his physical movements but in his mind. He was sick with worry about the next defeat in the face of redemption waving at him from the far horizon.

The end, the end, the end. He was surprised about the normality of it all.

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Happy endings at Wolf Kettler Photographer

Wolf — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:14:03 +0000

Picture the scene: It is a cold, rainy day, the kind that would make a wet tea towel flung into your face seem appealing. The day is drawing to an end. A photographer is about to shut shop for the night when a brunette floats in and announces that she wants to give her husband something to look at.

This is the start to photographer Wolf Kettler’s new radio ad, which tells the story of a photo session in the style of a classic 1940s detective novel. All the essential elements are there: A sexy brunette, her suspicious husband, suspense and a disgruntled client. Alas, no murder but a happy ending.

The idea was born when Wolf felt that the conventional radio advertising approach of “this is what I do – buy now” did not live up to the creativity of his photography. The result may well be an entirely new concept in radio advertising.

The radio ad consists of eight episodes. Each will be running for three weeks. The campaign was conceived and written by Wolf Kettler and produced by Phil Dawson for Fantasy Radio. It was Phil, who put the icing on the cake by suggesting that the ad should be spoken by Wolf himself rather than a hired voice.

Catch the first episode now on Fantasy Radio on 97fm in the Devizes area or listen online at fantasyradio.co.uk.

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The Sea Bride

Wolf — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:10:46 +0000

A mini preview of Hannah and Dan’s maritime themed wedding at Beaulieu on Saturday, 11 May.

The entire collection will be available to view in the next few days. If you attended the wedding, you are likely to be in some of the photographs. Please go to wolfkettler.co.uk/hannah-dan and log in with the user name and password that you either noted down at the reception or will receive from Hannah and Dan.

Click on a photograph to see it bigger:


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See more wedding photography on my website and on this blog. If you would like me to photograph your wedding, please contact me.

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Sailing with Tom and Roz

Wolf — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:36:06 +0000

Last Friday I had the great privilege to go sailing with Tom and Roz on board Constance, their breathtakingly beautiful Mason 44. How I come to know Tom and Roz does not matter for this post.

Tom, of course, is Tom Cunliffe, the brilliant British sailing guru and household name to everybody with a smidgen of interest in sailing. All my recent sailing had been training. To experience Tom’s ripened common sense approach was both, enlightening and reassuring.

True to its reputation, April flung a multiplicity of weather conditions at us: Sunshine followed by a few raindrops and dramatic skies; winds of up to 28 knots (which is force 7 on the Beaufort scale and termed a “near gale”) with capricious shifts in direction.

I am still smiling that Tom complemented me on my helming. I suppose that this means that the great man thought that I did all right.

Tom Cunliffe, the British sailing guru.

See more posts about sailing. Click on a photograph to see it bigger.

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New stock photo uploads (17/3/13)

Wolf — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:07:46 +0000

New stock photography, just uploaded. Model in the photographs is the wonderful Amy, who also starred as “the client” in my photo session video.

See the collection on Arcangel Images

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New stock photo uploads

Wolf — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:18:52 +0000

New stock photography, just uploaded.
See the collection on Arcangel Images

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Wolf Kettler joins Arcangel Images

Wolf — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:29:50 +0000

I am delighted to announce that I have been invited to join Arcangel Images.

The Arcangel photo library specialises in supplying inspirational, creative and unique stock imagery to discerning picture buyers. Their clients include international book publishers, record labels, advertising and design agencies and magazine publishers.

Arcangel represent some of the most imaginative and talented international photographers and artists working in the industry today. Arcangel are full members of PACA (Picture Archive Council of America) and BAPLA (British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies).

Wolf Kettler at Arcangel Images

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Spring at Wolf Kettler Photographer

Wolf — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:37:50 +0000

Today, 20 March 2013, we celebrate the spring or vernal equinox, the ephemeral moment when the sun sits directly above the equator and night and day are about equal length. At my studio, the arrival of spring can only mean one thing: The new Face of Spring on my website - I change the photograph on the home page in tune with the seasons.

Spring is conventionally associated with the creation of new life: The growth of infantile plants, baby animals being born and spring maidens dancing. I am not so keen on conventions and have chosen a lovely, gorgeous and somewhat more mature model to be my face of spring. Her name is Jenni and I first met her through my local radio station (Fantasy Radio on 97 fm in the Devizes area or fantasyradio.co.uk world-wide). Jenni is an avid gardener, so we explored a gardening theme. Did I mention that she is 81?

People like Jenni are a reminder that spring is not just an event that occurs once every year but that there is such a thing as eternal youth in all of us. I think that this is a beautiful and reassuring thought.

The photograph of Jenni will represent spring at Wolf Kettler Photographer for the next three months, until the beginning of summer. Click on the photograph to see it bigger.

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Silver birch

Wolf — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:20:23 +0000

A silver birch that I saw … and some of you still think that nature is not sexy.

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