About Snowibunni.de

Snowibunni = cutesy for snow bunny. I love snow and rabbits.

I'm a mid-30s American femme woman named Bree who has a deep interest in the art of guitar man standing in photographs. I started my collecting, organizing, and journey in 2006. I've been around a while.

Sadly, I have watched an ever centralized and broken Internet result in a deep loss of images being shared with others. I have reached my final straw over Instagram and Pinterest. After the losses of Photobucket, TinyPic, ImageShack, etc I have grown more concerned about the state of images online in English speaking spaces. Additionally, tumblr is impossible to properly image search through via tags and gets resized. I also find the state of Pinterest to be really embarrassing and impossible to search through. Currently, things are managed and kept by Russians in ways that is closed off from most others to understand or find out exists. This is really sad! I want to try to fix this language barrier and remove this issue. I also wish to preserve images at the best available instead of whatever these aforementioned sites do to degrade them. Many images are already suffering artifacting damages that do not need to be made worse.

This website is largely my fan curated gallery collection of Paul images from my personal hoard. It will take me a long time to publish everything. This is a work in progress and project for me, foremost. I enjoy processing and sorting large amounts of data. Running this site is very enjoyable to me and I'm glad to be spending my free time doing it. My promise is: you will definitely browse this site and realize how many Paul images you have never seen before.

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FAQ

Q. How do I download the higher resolution stated on the image page? Right click save gives me a small version!

A. Please use the download file button.

Browsing galleries displays medium sized thumbnails to prevent bandwidth excess due to modern era photos sometimes being 2MB or higher. It would be inefficient (and cost me a lot) to have everyone loading 2MB+ images from such galleries while browsing.

Q. How can I download an entire folder at once? Do you offer a batch or zip download?

A. Yes. There's a method and caveats to this. I tried to let this work with guest users but the plugin won't do it correctly. I opted to make a blank user account. You need to use my login portal on the left sidebar.

Username: rammfan
Password: paul

The zip function will be at the upper right near the sorting options. It will have a little icon.


After you press this, it will confirm you want to download. Press yes. Then please give my server a short moment to process the request in PHP. The bigger the folder size, the more time it takes to run the script. When it completes this check, it'll automatically begin your zip and give you a green bar confirmation.

You will not be able to do anything in my gallery or edit the password. It's a shared account puppet username.

Restrictions: up to 3,000 images at once. maximum folder size is 900MB.
The file will delete from the server with 6 hours. So if you pause the download, you need to restart it within 6 hours.

The biggest folder on the gallery is 2016-17 tour at 880MB. That's why I restricted to 900MB. The biggest folder size should never exceed 3k anyway. Do not download the entire scans folder. Use the sub-folders within the scans folder individually. The files are simply too big for a batch download (1.5GB).

Q. What about the rest of the band?

A. I care! But I do not have the resources or images myself. When I started collecting Paul images in my teenage years, I did not have the foresight to save things for everyone. Mainly because I never predicted the future of images would be abysmal after the closing of media hosts or centralization to social media. I didn't have the foresight to know I should. As a result, I don't have anything substantial.

Q. I have a better quality, higher resolution, or uncropped version of [this picture]. Can I help by sending it?

A. YES! Send me an email with the image or Discord/IG DMs. I want uncropped images and things with proper tagging on them (if someone tagged it with a username/site).

Q. [This photo] is missing from the album! Should I tell you to add it?

A. Currently, this site is a massive work in progress. There's likely many images not sorted and displayed at this time. I will get to it, eventually. If it has been many years and I haven't added it, then tell me because I'd be concerned too haha.

If you can help, I do have a plea of known missing images you can assist with.

Q. I have this magazine/book that needs to be in higher quality but I do not have a scanner or method to share it.

A. I will pay you for it to mail it and/or buy it off you. I will cover the shipment costs. I can pay you via PayPal in any currency of your native one that PayPal allows. I can pay in Euros. I have a high end scanner (Epson Perfection V39) and am very knowledgeable about scans.

I am deeply in search of 1998/06 Break Out magazine. This is the cover image. I would greatly desire this magazine if you have it.

Also, I'm going to put this plea out there: if you have old R+ VHS tapes or trader physical copies of TV airings from pre-2006 analog in Beta or VHS tapes, sell (or be nice and donate) them to me. Again, I will pay the parcel costs. Even if they are PAL or NTSC, it doesn't matter. I have the technical video knowledge to do this and know stuff about VHS ripping. I would really like a 1st or 2nd gen PAL tape of the 1997.08.17 WDR Koln and 1997.10.23 Viva Dusseldorf broadcasts.

Q. I have actual photos I took myself with my own camera or phone. I would like to submit them to you.

A. Same as before. Please email, Discord/IG DM me about it. I accept anything you want to contribute.

Q. Your image caches have been improperly hotlinked on Pinterest and don't work.

A. Good. Don't hotlink me that way to that site. If you want to post from me there, link the URL not the image.

Yes ✅ = https://snowibunni.de/picture.php?/12220/category/98
No ❌ = https://snowibunni.de/_data/i/galleries/1994-99/1997_Amerika/e2ba2f1d45106167604fc3e8ede433486-me.jpg

Q. Can I hotlink?

A. No. Please do not do this! You will get an error if you do it. You can link the photo URL page, but not the direct jpg. Like the above example, you can do that but do not link the photo itself. I cannot afford to host your bandwidth traffic because I do this out of my own pocket. It would cost me the need to upgrade servers to have such traffic or be overbearing on a shared server.

Q. I run another R+ fan site of some kind. Can I contact you or work with you?

A. Yeah. I don't know what you might have in mind. I am open to hearing anything. Send me an email or Discord request for instant chat. I am highly skilled at identifying Paul media visually. I may be useful to you to assist with video identification of time periods or other images. I'd be willing to work with you if you want me to assist. I can recognize nigh any photo/video of this man in the 90s to a year and season (summer/winter) with precision.

Q. How do you know for sure this image of him is LIFAD and not MiG/WHDT tour? He looks the same.

A. Skill issue. Truthfully, he is not the same. I figured out how to tell the difference. I developed a method to the two tours chaos.

Q. You don't have people tags for images of him with his children.

A. I know. I won't do it. That's a boundary to me. They are in the gallery, but not tagged.

Q. Why do you pick the album thumbnails to be what they are?

It's just my preference or maybe a quirky reference. (ie 2007-14's meet and greet folder has the shark in his hands.) I prefer to pick a landscape image if I can. As for the main index, I wanted to pick images that reflect the album cover in the background sometimes. You can see Mutter, Rosenrot, and the LIFAD on in the background. You feel me now? None of the Reise, Reise images looked good on the index. (Which bugs me.) As for the other albums, I don't know. I tried to capture something from the time period that was easily recognizable. With the 2018-2025 folder I liked his IG photo with the stage in the back. For 2015-17, I picked the Heine photos taken on the rooftop as those were taken mid-tour cycle. Picking Heine's December 1997 photo from Las Vegas is 100% my own mental bias to how much I love that range of time specifically out of any 90s moment. (My mind is thinking of April 97 to roughly April 98 for the magical range of time I'm fixating on.) When I pick something for the live concert images, I try to choose something landscape with a medium close-up of him not too far away.

Q. Why did you do this work? Why are you doing this? This costs money to do, so why?

A. Well the monetary costs isn't that bad. It costs me total under $100 USD. Even when my domain renews, the increase in cost is an additional $8. I enjoy a man standing (or sitting) in jpegs. With and without guitar. I really, truly do. I simply love looking at Paul inside a photo (or IRL). Am I that easygoing about this? Yeah. I want to look at him in a photograph. I like looking at him existing. There's no deeper concept for why I made a gallery. In some sense, it was selfish of me because I wanted images of him to be browse-able without a gallery application on a desktop or tablet. I don't like the thumbnails on my tablet and desktop is so clunky with Windows. The thumbnails and sizes are never satisfying. Especially when images are high resolution. Even with external programs, I really am unsatisfied with browsing from a method I actually enjoy. This website is also my own wants and desires for my browsing comfort. I figured I might as well let others access it too. This is why aesthetically, it's for myself in dark mode. In the future, I'd like to customize the CSS further for myself.

Q. How did you memorize photos to time periods? How did you learn to do this?

A. This is complicated.

Easy answer: having watched Paul exist through time. I remember when photos were new. This isn't hindsight to me for chunks of it. I have been watching him exist since 2006. The photos from 2011 are something I remember in real-time as they happened, you know?

Silly answer: have you ever memorized a man's jewelry? I think you'd be shocked to realize certain time periods can be clocked via jewelry. (example: do you see a black earring left ear? only 2010. pearl necklace? 2022 and 2024.) on that same note, Paul repeats his clothes for chunks of time and becomes obsessed with specific items/accessories. his fashion sometimes is the giveaway answer. also, I'm gonna be so honest and say the forbidden knowledge: he really does change his haircut and facial hair sometimes lmao. it's not "the same", actually.

Complicated answer: I have a tendency and high skill for sorting large amounts of data inside my mind. I am good at perceiving patterns visually. I am a visual learner and seeing via example. I overly fixate on staring at, in-taking, and key checking minutiae from them no one else bothers with.

Snowibunni.de is a one woman fansite, unofficial creation, and non-profit project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, and in no way authorized by, or connected to Rammstein, Paul Landers, Universal Music Group, or any associated legal entities. No copyright infringement is intended. Removals at request.