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Simon Bolz Photography: Keine halben Sachen mehr

November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM

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NEUIGKEITEN:

Auf meiner Website gibt es jetzt alle Blog-Artikel (ja, alle 553, zurück bis 2016) auch auf deutsch:

simonbolz.com/blog/de/behi...

Die Sprache kann am Seitenende auch fixiert werden.

Im Portfolio gibt es jetzt auch eine Suchfunktion.

Es fing harmlos an. Ich scrollte durch meinen eigenen Blog, eigentlich nur auf der Suche nach einem alten Artikel über Pornografie, als mein Blick an diesen kleinen Flaggen-Emojis hängenblieb. Diese p...

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November 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM

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Ice, ice baby, I am back. So glad for my December Playmate 2025, Julene, photographed by me in Fuerteventura. On newsstands from today.

November 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM

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Quick reminder: This is the cover image of my 2026 calendar, available on my website: www.simonbolz.com/shop/calendar/

October 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM

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Working on another project, I just stumbled upon this cute photo of Lisa that I took in Paris a few years ago.

October 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM

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Simon Bolz Photography: Love Letter: Meet the Little Sister of the Love Box 🇺🇸 🇩🇪

Sometimes you just have to do something crazy. So there I was, standing in this little stationery shop, one of those special places that looks like it's from another era. Japanese envelopes everywhere...

October 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM

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Simon Bolz Photography: Three's a Crowd 🇺🇸 🇩🇪

Recently at a shoot, I had to smile again. "Can my boyfriend be there?" the model asked me on the phone. Of course he can, but I already knew what would happen. After twenty minutes, she would be more...

September 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM

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Simon Bolz Photography: Nano Banana: When Google Quietly Revolutionizes Photography 🇺🇸 🇩🇪

While we're still arguing about the latest AI image generators, Google has pulled its "Nano Banana" out of the hat. And I have to admit: this thing caught me completely off guard.

Simon Bolz Photography: Between Now And Forever: My Nude Calendar 2026 🇺🇸 🇩🇪

September 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM

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My new calendar is out:

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Sometimes I wonder if I'm the last of the Mohicans. I've been producing my nude calendar every year since 2009, while all around me the moral fingers point ever higher. A photographic relic from a tim...

September 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM

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Simon Bolz Photography: The Forbidden Look Up 🇺🇸 🇩🇪

There are these moments in art history that make us blush today. Not because we've become prudish — quite the contrary. We blush because we feel caught in the act. As if our ancestors had caught us pe...

August 19, 2025 at 5:23 AM

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Simon Bolz Photography: B-Roll: The Art of Cinematic Extras 🇺🇸 🇩🇪

Do you know that feeling? You're editing a video of a refreshing interview and suddenly realize: Oops, 10 minutes of talking head. The viewer will fall asleep! Welcome to the wonderful world of B-Roll...

August 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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Simon Bolz Photography: Nude Doesn't Mean Naughty 🇺🇸 🇩🇪

You might not know the feeling: You spend years perfecting your artistic vision, meticulously crafting your visual language, and then some algorithm comes along and labels your website as pornographic...

July 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM

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Simon Bolz Photography: When AI Steals Your Face 🇺🇸 🇩🇪

The other day, I looked in the mirror and was terribly startled. Not because I looked particularly bad — no, because I looked completely normal. No flawless porcelain-like skin. No eyes gleaming like ...

July 16, 2025 at 5:35 AM

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Simon Bolz Photography: The Great Head-Thrown-Back Trend 🇺🇸 🇩🇪

As a photographer, you experience all sorts of things in front of the lens. But the latest posing trend is pushing even experienced professionals to their limits. A story about stretched necks, domina...

July 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM

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Simon Bolz Photography: When Meta Became the Morality Police 🇺🇸 🇩🇪

As a nude photographer, I know censorship all too well. Not from totalitarian states or distant regimes — no, I'm talking about censorship right here in the supposedly free Western world. The same Wes...

June 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM

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Simon Bolz Photography: The Poetry of Movement 🇺🇸 🇩🇪

There is this magical moment between Paris and Frankfurt on the TGV, when the Champagne region passes by like an impressionist painting. 320 kilometers per hour of pure inspiration. While other passen...

Simon Bolz Photography: Garage Sale 🇺🇸 🇩🇪

June 13, 2025 at 5:34 AM

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Cleaning my closet and giving away many things for cheap:
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A garage sale? Well, not exactly. "Lingerie closet sale" sounds a bit odd too. But I had to call it something, this thing that's been going on these past few days…

June 6, 2025 at 5:54 AM

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Simon Bolz Photography: Two Software Updates, Not Half Bad 🇺🇸 🇩🇪

You know the drill: You're sitting at your computer, your coffee's gone cold, and the RAW files from your last shoot are staring at you accusingly. Quick processing session? Yeah, right. What usually ...

May 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM

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Simon Bolz Photography: The Chemistry of First Encounters 🇺🇸 🇩🇪

Recently, I was sitting at the hairdresser's. A new one, just three minutes from my home. He cuts well, no question about that. But while I sit there staring into the mirror as he works meticulously o...

May 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM

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Simon Bolz Photography: A Little Safari Through Patterns and AI 🇺🇸 🇩🇪

Last week I was at an outdoor photo shoot. The model wore sunglasses, which looked cool and added variety to the session. But my camera was confused: no autofocus on the eyes possible. This got me thi...