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Flowers as Paint: A Jugendstil-Inspired Collaboration with Blumen Mitzi
Years ago I was expanding my photography practice and reached out to florists in Vienna. Nadine was one of those people and the two of us clicked creatively, so we’ve been working together from time to time since then. Blumen Mitzi is her business pseudonym for her flower studio based in Vienna, though I wouldn’t just call her a florist. Flowers are her paint. She uses them to create moods, aesthetics, styles, pairing them with fashion, decoration, jewelry. Last year I went t
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Apr 164 min read


Photography, Branding, and Web Design: Building Complete Systems
People often come to me for one specific thing. Photos for their website. A logo for their new practice. A rebrand because the old one was homemade, and isn't working anymore. What is often missing here though, and often they don't realize it at first, is someone who actually ensures that the individual elements of their marketing presence work together. Not just having good photos, not just having good designs or a cool logo, or a functional website. They need someone who ho
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Feb 135 min read


Long Exposure Portrait Photography: How I Photographed Dancing Meditation
This case study talks about my recent photography for Dancing Meditation and how I used dragging shutter to create a unique identity for the brand.

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Jan 155 min read


Why AI Sounds Right But Fails in Practice (A Podcast Editing Case Study)
LLMs are designed to always give you an answer. They never say "I don't know." Much like a manipulative salesperson, they'll always sound convincing, give you good explanations - but they can still be very, very wrong. I learned this testing AI for podcast editing. The first attempt worked okay. The second time, my client rejected it completely - the first time ever on this project. Here's what I learned about when AI helps and when it fails.

Julia Stefan
Dec 11, 20256 min read
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