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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.

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These are the tournaments I would like to visit in the future.
A competition written in italic letters will take place but I'll not visit it.
  gymnastics    
  figure skating    
  Rock'n'Roll    
  rhythmic gymnastic (RG)    
09/10/2010 - 09/12/2010 Deutsche Meiserschaften Berlin GER
09/25/2010 LK SUI-GER-ROU Schaffhauen SUI
10/09/2010 Via Claudia Cup 2010
Rock'n'Roll		 Kaufering GER
10/16/2010 Deutsche Meisterschaft 2010
Rock'n'Roll		 Landsberg/Lech GER
10/30/2010 - 10/31/2010 Bundesliga 3. Wettkampf Borken GER
11/20/2010 - 11/21/2009 Turntalent-Pokal/Kaderturn-Cup Esslingen-Berkheim GER
11/27/2010 DTL-Finale Berlin GER
12/02/2010 - 12/05/2010 NRW Trophy
Eiskunstlaufen		 Dortmund GER
12/11/2010 - 12/12/2010 DTL-Aufstiegsfinale ??? GER
12/15/2010 - 12/19/2010 Deutsche Nachwuchs- und Jugendmeisterschaften 2011
Eiskunstlaufen		 Oberstdorf GER
01/06/2011 - 01/09/2011 Deutsche Meisterschaften 2011
Eiskunstlaufen		 Oberstdorf GER
02/10/2011 - 02/13/2011 Bavarian Open 2011
Eiskunstlaufen		 Oberstdorf GER
03/??/2011 - 03/??/2011 Deutschland-Pokal 2011
Eiskunstlaufen		 Chemnitz GER

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