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That’s a wrap, winter season 2011/12.

Apr 292012

And that’s a wrap: winter season has finally come to a halt for me with amazing snow conditions in my final week in France. What a season it has been, the Alps haven’t seen this much snow in years. Sadly enough, I didn’t always manage to time perfectly but I have no complaints whatsoever, having had some perfect powder, froze my everything, saw and photographed fantastic hotels and enjoyed stunning views for three months.

Enjoy this supersmall teaser, full photo series will be online from October.

Heavy clouds over the Swiss Laax region during Snowfest 2012.

Working the ridge… St. Anton am Arlberg, AUstria.

View from the Dachstein gondola in the Austrian Ski amadé region.

Tour Skiing in the Gargellen region, Switzerland.

15 hour sunset & sunrise time-lapse in the Swiss high mountains

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Feb 152012

One night.
One full moon.

In an amazing place,
on top of Belalp, Switzerland.

Taken from a balcony with a view,
in the Hamilton Lodge,
with a Canon 1DIII with a half full battery,

Working fine at -20 Celsius,
for over 15 hours….

A 1500+ image timelapse shot over one night and a small part of a morning from the balcony in the Hamilton Lodge in the Belalp Skiregion in Switzerland.

Music: Haute Culture – Chordial (freemusicarchive.org)

A winterset: 2007-2011

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Jan 172012

Scraping left-over bits of powder from everywhere we came up with quite a few great shots on this Austria roadtrip. No wonder, because when shooting with Timo Hermeler it’s usually impossible not to return with gems like this. [St. Anton, Austria. 2008]

A few weeks ago I was asked to setup a showcase series with my favorite wintersports photos for the popular Tacky website. But as they have a strict policy of not showing ski-photos, which I love taking, I decided to upload the whole series of 44 images onto my own website too. I’m a wintersports photographer in a broad sense, I hope this shows a bit of what I love doing so much and why. It’s a story into my work, I hope you enjoy it! Click here for the full gallery!

Simply the best view in the Alpes, high on top at Les 2 Alpes watching over the Mt.Blanc. Privileged! [Les 2 Alpes, France.2007]

There’s no better start to a skitest photoshoot than this! Fresh pow, a deserted skiresort and a mountain with a perfect angle. Even better when it’s snowboardcross coach Frank Germann kicking ass! [Bad hofgastein, Austria.. 2009]

As the Dutch Ski Associations head photographer I also do the skiing. From a photography point of view a very worthwhile job, espcially if you get photos like these from the champ; Alwin de Quartel. [Schladming, Austria. 2009]

The Belgium freestyle champsionships is an insane party week that features some amazing snowboarding. Especially the kickers are always huge and Seppe Smits knows what to do with them. [Les 2 Alpes, France. 2010]

Bad light is no excuse for bad photos. Though it does help when your subject is Richard Molenaar, one of the most stylish skiiers I know, dressed in near-fluor colors. Ans yes, this is very close! [Sölden, Austria. 2011]

The Berghuis sisters have become like sisters to me after all these years of shooting. But Britt somehow managed to avoid getting a decent powder photo taken. Then, suddenly, it all came together: a small stretch of fresh cold powder that needed to be shredded. After a small discussion we both ran to our positions and this was the result. Ten minutes later that whole stretch was completely done for by a zillion tourists. [Les 2 Alpes, France. 2007]

Perhaps one of my all-time favorite ski-photos. It all came down to a matter of good timing and Gebke Compeer understood just that. To me it just shows the ultimate freedom of beeing in the snow. [Bad hofgastein, Austria. 2009]

After a long testweek photoshoot it is fun to fool around a bit with a massive block of icey snow, leftover from the Hannibal show on the Sölden glacier. Rens de Wild knows what to do with it. [Sölden, Austria. 2011]

Nomination for WePowder Award.

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Nov 162011

This photo was nominated for a WePowder Award this November. It’s a photo of Irian van Helfteren cliffjumping in Sölden with tons of sluff creating a supersmooth image. I simply love his style and riding technique. By far the best Dutch freerider at this moment.

Client: Wintersport Magazine
© 2011 Fotograferen net

Sunweb 2011/12 Wintersports Brochure

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Oct 172011

Cover for the 2011/12 Wintersports Brochure.
Sunweb is the largest Dutch wintersports travel broker.

Photo taken in Flaine, France. March 2011.

Client: Sundio Group
© 2011 Fotograferen net

Cover Wintersport Magazine #11

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Sep 252011

First issue of the 2011-12 Wintersport Magazine.

Photo taken in Solden, Austria, during the ski- and snowboardtestweek for the magazine.
Skier: Falco Teitsma

Client: Dutch Ski Association
Publisher: RHBM

POTW: Ski & Snowboardtest 2011/12

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May 022011

Photo of the week:
Image from the Ski & Snowboardtest for Wintersport Magazine.
May 2011, Solden (Austria)

Snowfest 2011, the Dutch Champs Snowboarding

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Apr 062011

Images from the 2011 edition of the Dutch Snowboarding Championships in sunny Laax, Switzerland.

Update – April 21st: Big Air images added.
Update – April 7th: Giant Parallel Slalom images added.
Update – April 6th: Half-pipe images added.

Weekly Random Shot: Bird’s eye view on skiing

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Mar 172011

While shooting the snowboard and skitest for the Dutch “Wintersport Magazine” I was using the same skilift over and over again and felt it was really great for doing some shot from above as it came over the skislopes really low at a specific part.
All what was needed was a bit of good timing and a bit of good luck. With one test run (and some walkie-talkies) we managed to get speed perfectly right and while the skiers went underneath me I just had to lean out of the chairlift adn shoot a ton of pictures.
The end result came out incredibly good and I totally fell in love with this shot: it really embellishes the way you feel when on the slopes with friends. The shadows give it a really nice touch too and the spraying snow from the skies couldn’t have been more perfect, this is wintersports!

The image has been cropped slightly and was pulled a bit brighter with the curves tool. Just minor adjustments to a photo that hardly needed any work. It was shot with a manual setting at 1/1600th at f6.3 with 100ISO. 15mm fisheye lens on a Canon 1D MkIII (1.3 magnification factor).

Bad Hofgastein, Austria.

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Publication: “I want to do something else!”.

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Jan 262011

Article on “what else is there to do besides skiing?” in Lifestyle and Travel. Published Dec. 2010. Alternatives to regular ski and snowboarding the slopes, ranging from glacier hiking, icediving, cliffjumping and so many others from all over the world.

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