What a nice treat: while working for Jack Daniels at the Pinkpop festival, edition 2008 I had a couple of minutes to spare to photograph Metallica at the mainstage. Not enough time to do it really properly but still good enough to shoot a couple of nice pics and a really great one. What more can one ask for? A Jack and Coke?
Vanuit het heldere water zwemmen we een tunnel in. Een mysterieus licht schittert ons tegemoet. We komen terecht in water omgeven door rotswanden. Langzaam stijgen we op. Eenmaal boven voelen we de zonnestralen in ons gezicht. Ze vallen door een spleet in het plafond van de grot naar binnen. Dit is puur genieten.
Ver weg? Welnee! We zitten in Turkije en om precies te zijn aan de groene zuidwestkust. Een weekje duiken en relaxen aan boord van de Emma Rosa, een echte Turkse gulet. Het schip maakt wekelijks duikcruises langs de baaien rond Fethiye. Een week lang duiken en relaxen, niet alleen voor ervaren duikers, maar juist ook voor mensen die voor het eerst kennis willen maken met de wereld onder de waterspiegel.
Lees het hele artikel op Duikeninbeeld.tv.
Tekst: © Linda Ferweda. Beeld: © Fotograferen.net
Flatlander Dolf van der Wal ended his season with a well-deserved first place at the Burton Half-Pipe Invitational in Åre, Sweden. Great solid run that finished off a grey and miserable day on the slopes.
Pity the whole week of shooting didn’t give us more than just one morning of nice weather. As to be expected: we left a day after the contest under bright blue-skies!
Check out the fall edition of Snowboard Magazine for the full report of our week with the Dutch Snowboard selection. A lof of different pictures for a change!
UPDATE: Check out a full video of the event (and the shitty weather on the final day) over here. Swedish-language alert!
Okay, that’s enough: no more Dennis the Dugong after this post (at least for now). The Portugese underwater filmer Joel Machado, who can be seen at work this photo, just sent me a link to his video of our little quest to find Dennis.
Abu Dabab – “the dining room” from Joel Machado on Vimeo.
You can see me swim by a few times and trying to get aquinted with a Remorra… at 04:21 I’m actually taking this picture (watch the flash). But have a look at the video because it’s simply beautiful!
This one came in a bit late. My article on Caribbean Island Hopping for the Belgium Feeling Magazine (a glossy which is also available in the Netherlands) was published last year October. The travel-report focussus on travelling between Caribbean Islands like Saba, St.Maarten/St.Martin, St.Eustatius, Tortola, Antigua and Dominica.
© 2007 Fotograferen.net & Feeling Magazine.
Text & photography by Fotograferen.net
Download full pdf here.
For the largest Dutch travel monthly: ANWB REIZEN Magazine, May 2008 issue, I did a full report on the Black Sea coast at the end of the summer of 2007. Focus of the article was the “Betonpolitie” or “Concrete Police”: a series of articles that asks the question if there is too much building going on at certain destinations that were renowned for their untouched beauty. In this case the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. As it turns out, a lot of the coastal line has been heavily overdeveloped but I still managed to find a few relatively untouched places along the way. Not an easy article to make as I was travelling alone and I manage to do about 1600 kilometres in one week to find all the good bits.
Text and photography: © Fotograferen.net & ANWB Reizen Magazine.
Text & photography by Fotograferen.net
Download PFD of the article here.
Artist Cornelis le Mair is one of the most incredible people I have ever met and he lives in the craziest and nicest house in the Netherlands. A house that would easily fit into the Efteling as a top-attraction.
Some time ago I was asked to do a portrait series on this artist for Tulp magazine, a glossy that I do quite a bit of work for, mostly travel though.
Place to go was an almost unlocatable farm on the outskirts of Eindhoven. My TomTom was giving me a headache (perhaps the other way around as well), maybe since the most beautiful places are hard to find.
While being stuck near a sprakling white new villa with two vicous dogs eying me it dawned me that this probably wasn’t a place where I would find a classical painter. Time to send out a call for help and guess what? I had just passed the farm about three times already. it was 200 meters down the road, paradise isn’t easily found.
In my rearview mirror was a tall slim man with an incredible white beard waving me to come over. Moments later my car was parked between chickens, goats and plenty of other small feathered animals. A beautiful old farmhouse with wooden walkthroughs that went into the trees just had to be the house of a genious. This was the home of the man who painted fullsized Rembrandts on his bedroom walls when he was a little kid.
Cornelis just breathes Art, capital A. Even in the sixties, when classical painting was frowned upon, he managed to get himself into the best art school available in Holland. He was simply too good, even in an age where modern art was considered to be everything.
Going against the stream of modern art has never failed him, never did he have to put in an efoort to sell a painting, everything he makes is sold before the paint’s even dry. Just doing what he feels like takes him into creating fantasy model houses that are so big and detailed you just can’t stop wondering how much time went into them (about three years it turned out to be).
No matter if you like classical paintings or not, you just got to love the man and his home. In no photo any object was replaced for the shot, it’s just how it is and that was just a dream to photograph. The house is the house as it is.
By the way, neither were any of the photo’s retouched, this is just how they came out of the camera.
Almost forgot: some artist wallpapers from the last Koninginnedag on the Museumplein in Amsterdam. Nikki, Jan Smit, Alain&Dane Clark and Gerard Joling as hi-res or widescreen wallpaper.
Idols winner Nikki. Click image for widescreen version, here for hi-res version.
The incredibly popular Jantje Smit. Click image for widescreen version, here for hi-res version.
Gerard Joling, always fun. Click image for widescreen version, here for hi-res version.
Alain & Dane Clark: father and friend. Click image for widescreen version, here for hi-res version.
View from the top (with David Guetta). Click image for widescreen version, here for hi-res version.
Yes, I’ll admit it: when it comes to airliners I’m a bit of nerd. Even though I’m often on an airplane more than twice a month I still get overly fascinated by these flying pieces of mechanical wonder.
Yesterday, after a nice portrait shoot with a VP of DSM in the Amsterdam Hotel American, I figured I’d make the most of the fantastic weather and hang around Schiphol Airport for a little while to photograph airplanes. A great excuse to keep my tan intact.
How Dutch can it get? Green grass, yellow flowers, murky brown water and a blue bird about to leave it’s nest!
Boytoys… 
Come to it, I’m now trying to keep up a gallery with my finer airline shots. Quite a few are viewable on Airliners.net (made the frontpage twice now!). Enjoy!
What an amazing sight: sea, sun, sand and a couple of tons of shining metal coming in low on St.Maartens Princess Juliana Airport.
What a treat! On approach to Queenstown (ZQN) from Auckland (AKL) and flying low over the same snowboarding area, Cardrona, where I would be photographing New Zealand’s first offical WorldCup Snowboarding contest a week later. Yes, that road to the mountaintop is as scary as it looks.
VLM PH-LMT about to touch down on a misty Rotterdam Airport runway.
View over Saba’s very short runway (ca. 1300 feet/400 meter). Taken from the top of the Island’s vulcano: Mt.Scenery.
Finally got a video that was aired in Rotterdam on RTV Rijnmond last year on my work as a wintersport/snowboard photographer. It’s in Dutch though, the item was taped at the Oxbow Opening of the 2007 season in Les Deux Alpes (France).
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