Report on scuba-diving with the Cayman Aggressor in November 2009, published in the Dutch diving publication “Divemagazine”.
A feature about the Aggressor liveaboard in one of the top diving spots in the Caribbean.
While on a good ‘ol fashioned trip throughout California in 2004 I made sure to spend some time at one of my two favorite places in Los Angeles: Griffith Observatory near the Hollywood Hills (the other being the Getty). Perhaps one of the most stunning viewpoints over the city, even though it was closed at that time for massive renovations.
While strolling the park behind it I saw this girl, quit some distance away, dancing in the near-sunset. Photos like these are easy to take so I just set my aperture at f10 (more than enough light anyway) and let the internal light-meter underexpose the image by itself. The reason for the f10 was to make sure that the grasses in front and behind the girl would come out sharp enough. At ISO100, shuttertime was still 1/3000 of a sec.! Thank you California light. With max zoom of 200mm this one came out just perfect.
Coolest thing was I ran into the girl later on and gave her my card while showing the photo on my camera. She later contacted me and I was able to send her a high-resolution copy. Sweet!
For a big assignment for Dance4Life in Uganda, last March, I took this photo while enroute from London Heathrow (LHR) to Entebbe (EBB). Hoping to catch a few nice photos at sunset this one came out quite spectacular though not that easy to capture as the light was dimming fast and the window was pretty iced up after 5 hours into the flight.
With an aperture of f2.8 I managed to still get a shutter time of 1/400sec at 100ISO. All shots with higher apertures turned out to too “dirty” from the ice particles on the window and the haze that was pretty much on each shot was removed by auto-levelling them in Photoshop and then turning back the over-contrasted areas with the curves tool where necessary.
All in all, an amazing view!
Jul 012010
Report on scuba-diving El Hierro, the smallest and most western of the Canary Islands. Until the 15th century people thought this place was the end of the world so the meridian even went through it.
Nowadays it’s an amazing and peaceful island untouched by the claws of mass-tourism. A perfect place for diving and an incredible place to view topside nature. It holds rainforests, pine forests, endless lava fields, rocky cliffs and some nice and small harbours. A perfect place to be honest, no wonder it’s a Unesco Biosphere Reserve!
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Publication: Duikmagazine
© 2010 Fotograferen net
This is what a church full of singing and dancing people looks like on the Sunday worship. Taken in the tiny tiny town of Ochero in the Uganda countryside. A place where we were the first white people to visit in two years!
Make sure to watch at least till one minute!
By the way: the palm leaves were due to the upcoming Easter festivities.
About time to add some panoramic images from all over the world, a section that I will be updating more over the coming months.
Most of these have been stitched using the excellent Hugin stitching tool.
View over Nagasaki, Japan, from the Clover Garden elevator. 2004
View over Capetown from Signal Hill Road. 2005
Radio538 Queensday concert panorama. 2009
Granville Island Public Market, Vancouver. 2009
Penstraat Willemstad (Curaçao). 2010
Dutch Olympic Homecoming Haarlem. 2010
Feb 182010
A three-day visit to an island which is ten hours by plane and a couple hours in jetlag. Crazy? Not really, considering I was there to photograph the famous Caribbean Carnaval on the tiny Dutch Antilles island of Aruba. It’s the second-largest carnaval celebration in the whole caribbean and famous for its laid-back atmosphere and accessibility.
And boy was it worth the trip! Two days of sunny and happy people parading the streets of both major towns on the island: the very easy-goinh parade on Saturday in San-Nicolas and the massive and crowded Sunday main event in Oranjestad. Hours and hours of incredibly colorful people and costumes. I don’t think I’ve seen so many feathers. I guess the images speak for themselves, please enjoy and make sure you’re in the neighborhood next year!
Slideshow:
Main article on Vancouver Island by mobile home for Holland’s largest travel magazine: ANWB REIZEN. Published in November 2009.
Photo’s: Rutger Geerling/Fotograferen.net, text: Matthijs de Winter/ANWB.
Landing on a tiny mountain lake with a floatplane is a fantastic experience wherever you are. But in this weather and in one of the most stunning places on earth: Tofino, Vancouver Island, it was simply and totally unforgettable. More on this trip for ANWB REIZEN Magazine very soon.
Many thanks go out to Tofino Air for making this one hour flight possible.
Filmed with the Canon 5DmkII Video function, so click HD for extra quality.
Nov 042009
Fresh from the press: a new article on Fly&Drives in Northern Thailand in the november issue of ANWB REIZEN Magazine:
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