Late
summer 2001, I had an enjoyable visit and shoot with Mark, also known on
the WWW as "Wrestler Mark", here in Northern Hesse. He had quite a drive
from his home in Vienna, Austria; a nine hour non-stop drive in his father's
car!
Mark, 27, has
the highly developed and thoroughly trained body of an athlete. His body's
fat content is very low, giving very high definition to his muscle groups,
particularly his very strong abs and chest.
Even though
summer was ending and fall was heralding its soon arrival with cooler winds,
the weather was still good enough for shooting without the fear of blue
lips or goose-bumps.
Because Kassel,
the city in which I am now living, was 97% distroyed by bombing on Oct
22, 1943, and has never really recovered, we had to make a long trip through
the surrounding area to see fairy-tale like buildings and castles along
the nation-wide "Deutsche Maerchen Strasse" (German fairy-tail road).
It led us to
the heights of a mountain, crowned by
a centuries
old castle, where, from its tower, one could still clearly
see (even
after 12 years) the strip of land, cut deeply into the landscape, that
comprised the former "no mans land" of the former East-West German
border, a
reigon with a tragic, yet moving history. This region is only 20
miles east of Kassel. |
