about me

Bernhard Schwall

My name is Bernhard Schwall, I was born in april 1970 and I'm living in Penzberg about 50km in the south of Munich.

I'm interested in gymnastics for some years now and came to if by watching it on TV. I never did gymnastics by myself (I hated it at school). I'm also not related to any gymnastics club or gymnast. I'm simply fascinated by the elegance the gymnasts show while performing very difficult moves.

Since mid of 1999 I visit tournamens and gymnastics galas in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. First I tried to take photos but I had to realize that I couldn't enjoy (or even follow) the meeting while trying to take good photos. So I swapped to video which worked fairly well.
In 2003 the first digital SLR (Canon EOS 10D) became affordeable for me. Over the years my preference chnaged in taking pictures only.
After using the 10D till End of 2004 I switched to the 20D. In february 2006 I switched to the 1D MKIIN after my 20D broke down (with about 60000 being taken with it).
After 191.000 pictures the 1D MKIIN showed a strange behaviour. It simply rejects to take photos after a not predictable number of photos.
So in september 2008 I switched to Nikon and currently I'm happy with my Nikon D700.


These are the tournaments I would like to visit in the future.
A competition written in italic letters will take place but I don't plan not visit it.
  gymnastics    
  figure skating    
  Rock'n'Roll    
  rhythmic gymnastic (RG)    
12/14/2011 - 12/18/2011 DNM 2012
figure skating
Oberstdorf GER
01/06/2012 - 01/07/2012 DM 2012
figure skating
Oberstdorf GER
01/13/2012 - 01/15/2012 Heiko Fischer Pokal 2012
figure skating
Stuttgart GER
02/02/2012 - 02/05/2012 Bavarian Open 2012
figure skating
Oberstdorf GER
03/01/2012 - 03/04/2012 Deutschland-Pokal 2012
figure skating
Dortmund GER
03/10/2012 - 03/11/2012 Gymnasic International 2012
rhythmic gymnastic (RG)
Fellbach-Schmiden GER
03/17/2012 - 03/18/2012 B-W Meisterschaften 2012
figure skating
Stuttgart GER
04/21/2012 7. National Team Cup Schwäbisch-Gmünd GER
05/05/2012 - 05/06/2011 DM/DJM 2012
rhythmic gymnastic (RG)
??? GER
05/19/2012 Pre Olympic Youth Cup 2012 Bergisch-Gladbach GER
05/26/2012 - 05/27/2012 Deutschland-Pokal 2012 ??? GER
06/09/2012 - 06/10/2012 DJM 2012 ??? GER
06/09/2012 - 06/10/2011 Bundesfinale SLK
rhythmic gymnastic (RG)
Düsseldorf GER
06/16/2012 - 06/17/2012 DM 2012 Düsseldorf GER
07/07/2012 Bayerische Meisterschaften
Rock'n'Roll
Mering GER
10/06/2012 - 10/07/2012 Bundesliga
1. Wettkampf
Stuttgart GER
10/20/2012 - 10/21/2012 Bundesliga
2. Wettkampf
Karlsruhe GER
10/27/2012 Süddeutsche Meisterschaften
Rock'n'Roll
Gundelfingen GER
11/03/2011 - 11/04/2012 Kader-Turncup
Turn-Talentpokal
Berkheim-Esslingen GER
11/10/2011 - 11/11/2012 Bundesliga
3. Wettkampf
Bünde GER
11/24/2011 DTL-Finale erlin GER

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