Just a small set (43 images) of my favorite photo’s from Sundays’ Tomorrowland 2009 edition. As won’t be having a lot of time the next few days it might take me a bit longer to upload a full gallery. So, until then: enjoy these shots and wait for more to come.
Tomorrowland Wallpapers will be ready before the weekend.
[UPDATE] A large gallery of Saturday images here.
[UPDATE II] And a full set of Sundays images here.
The Hyundau Sungwoo Resort in Gangwon.
Some final images of the past two days before I leave for Switzerland Tomorrow.
Yesterday’s half-pipe saw some amazing action but the light was horrible for photography. Still managed to pull a few nice shots, especially from the winner Ryoh Aono from Japan.
Ryoh Aono 2x
If yesterday was cold, today was Arctic. With heatpockets in both hands I managed to keep my fingers a bit above freezing temp but the conditions weren’t as nice as they were in the first few days. Guess we saw it all this week: full sun, biggest snowfall in 20 years and freezing windy icechills to end the week with.
Last contest was the Big Air which had horrible angles from all sides so no real great images here too. Perhaps tonight for the finals things will be nice with my slaves and all the lamps they’ve put up at the jump.
David Mol (close-up) and Pim Stigter (action)
That’s it for this amazing Korean week, what a great place for such a contest. I’m off, Laax (Switzerland) is next… see you after the weekend.
Some more shots of todays action: the half-pipe contest which sadly turned out to be a bummer for Dolf van der Wal (missing the finals by 2/10 points on a disputable judging score). Some nice shots even though the waether was a bit bleak.
The nights Big Air practice turned out to be fun again while stressing the camera to the limits, using the high ISO range and two slave flashes. Happy with the results and ready for the contest the day after tomorrow.
Todays carving action wasn’t too succesfull for Nicolien either but fortunately I was able to do some decent freestyle shooting today. First some shots at the half-pipe (in between parallel slaom heats) and then some difficult shots with slave-flashes at the nightly big-jump practice session.
Tomorrow: half-pipe qualification and perhaps a couple more bigjump shots…
Some images from Today’s GPS event. Jetlag got me up early on the mountain, right in time to catch the sun rising above the hills.
Early rise!
Nicolien Sauerbreij memorizing the course.
Nicolien Sauerbreij in action.
The steep course made for some great crashshots!
Amazing lightshow.
A quick back-and-forth to the halfpipe for a shot of David Mol.
Carl Cox
Tomorrowland 2008 – Yesterday is History, Today is a Gift, Tomorrow is Mystery. Perhaps Yesterday was Hot, Today is Hotter and Tomorrow it’s raining would have been better. My god it was incredibly hot on Sunday. Glad I brought some SPF30 sunscreen, I would have been burnt to a crisp I’m afraid. I would say it was too hot too dance, people were chilling out mostly until the sun set, then the party really stared, mostly at the mainstage.
Prinz
Markus Schultz
Mainstage
Mainstage
A big thanks goes out to ID&T Belgium and Heineken who let me in their heli for some areal views. Boy I love flying!
View from the heli
View from the heli
Hot, hot, hot
Hot, hot, hot
And into the night things stayed dry, barely. Can’t believe the thunderstorm we drove through on the way back home. It was like being in a Hollywood movie: som much lightning it was almost fake…
Q-Dance
Atmosphere
Mainstage
Mainstage
And the full gallery:
