{"id":142049,"date":"2022-01-30T13:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T12:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.werner-kranwetvogel.de\/the-panda-babies\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:20:30","slug":"panda-babies-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.werner-kranwetvogel.de\/en\/panda-babies-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Panda babies"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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At the end of September, the head of marketing at Berlin Zoo<\/a> called me and asked me what I was up to between now and Christmas. She didn’t want to tell me much more on the phone, just one thing – a big event was coming up. A very big event. Shortly afterwards, I was standing with her in a separate area of the zoo. Panda lady Meng Meng was sitting in front of us – heavily pregnant. With twins. There was no sign of the panda’s excitement, he was gnawing on his bamboo with relish. But the excitement at the zoo was great. A twin birth of pandas had only ever happened in Toronto and Vienna. This was a world sensation. The press would be jostling for the best seats.<\/p>\n

To spare the panda lady the stress of a pack of nervous journalists running around her non-stop, the zoo wanted to take the film and photo production into their own hands and serve the press from a single source – and I was to assist Christiane’s team with advice and support. In a total of 6 sessions, I was the only external photographer allowed to photograph the little pandas and shoot footage for the social media channels until the workflow was finally so well-rehearsed that the zoo’s social media team took over the production itself. These are the photos of the first weeks of the two panda babies<\/a> Meng Xiang and Meng Yuan.<\/p>\n

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Last autumn I was allowed to exclusively photograph the first steps of the two panda babies of the Berlin Zoo. A first look after the jump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.werner-kranwetvogel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.werner-kranwetvogel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.werner-kranwetvogel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.werner-kranwetvogel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.werner-kranwetvogel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.werner-kranwetvogel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.werner-kranwetvogel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.werner-kranwetvogel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.werner-kranwetvogel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.werner-kranwetvogel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}