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NewYears Dive 2011 (Nieuwjaarsduik)

Jan 022011

Camera failure (error 99) after 5 photos sucks big time, especially at a big photoshoot like this! Three photos came out nice though, these are two of them.

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The Unox New Years Dive saw 10.000+ people jumping into the icecold North Sea at Scheveningen Beach in The Netherlands. A great and fun event to photograph, especially if your equipment doesn’t fail on you.

Client: Unox
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Happy New Year!

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Jan 022010

Just had to upload these two quickly, taken from the infamous Unox Nieuwjaarsduik 2010 (click here for 2008 and 2009). This year turned out the best from the three tries I’ve done so far in making these images with my drysuit and underwater camera. More shots later today or enjoy me at work (20:21) in this item at the main RTL4 News for January 1st.

Image: © Floris Diemel

Image: © Patrick Savalle

Full Gallery here.

Snowjam 2009

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Apr 192009

Images from the 2009 Snowjam, the Belgium Freestyle Championships in les Deux Alpes, France.
Gallery here.

VARA's TV Moment of the Year 2008

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Jan 112009

Curtains to the fantastic Koepelkerk location.

For the VARA, one of the largest Dutch Public Broadcasting Services I was asked to photograph their annual event: the TV moment of the year. A contest for the title of “Best Dutch item on TV in 2008″. A bit of a first for me as I’m not too much involved in the (TV) entertainment industry but it seemed like a great challenge and a good bit of fun.

Seats for Geenstijl.tv who had high hopes of winning this years edition with their stunning movie on a cabinet minister who forgot how to speak.

Geenstijl.tv presentator Rutger Castricum.

Presentator Matthijs van Nieuwkerk moments before going live.

The live television show took place in the Koepelkerk in downtown Amstrerdam, a beautiful old church that was spectacularly lit by the TV crew. However, for me as a photographer it wasn’t easy to shoot because the light was very low (I’m no match for modern HD television-camera’s) and I obviously wasn’t allowed to use flash. Even worse: during the live show I could only shoot from the first ring as camera positions on the floor level made it impossible for me to stay out of the picture. Still, a very memorable night and a good challenge to do a shoot like this.

What a location!

Host Matthijs van Nieuwkerk

Flowers for Yta Strikwerda, a mentally challenged woman who appeared on Paul de Leeuws TV show: “Mooi! Weer de Leeuw” in which she hunted down the presentator for ten minutes in order to get him to ride on a pony. The TV item was a surprise win as most people expected Peter R. de Vries to win with his undercover filming of Joran van de Sloot in the Natalee Holloway case.

Check out the full series (38 photo’s) here.

Unox Nieuwjaarsduik from the water!

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Jan 032009

Always my first assignment of the year: the Unox Newyears dive in Scheveningen!
Boy, what a great way to start early on January 1st.

With the cold this years edition saw less people joining the dive (about 7.000 instead of the usuall 10.000) but was it a dive indeed: everbody waited to the last second before jumping in en masse! Never saw such a spectacular dive here, altough it was over really, really quickly: just 6 minutes and the Northsea was empty again. Jup, it was cold indeed.

Full gallery here.

Dance4Life 2008

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Dec 122008

As always, I’m available to photograph Dance4Life in the Netherlands.This years third edition was no different. Tons of happy kids, lots of good artists and, most importantly: over €600.000 collected for various AIDS/HIV projects for children in Africa!

This year, 50,000 young people worldwide have taken a stand against HIV and AIDS. Today, these young people from 19 different countries were united live by satellite during the Dance4Life Event. Together they danced to the same rhythm, dancing against AIDS and in support of life!

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Kids and kites

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Sep 192008

Just had to upload this one:

Why won’t it fly?

Taken last week at a new Unox Event (check their brilliant Newyears dive here) the Dutch Kiting Day, which was plagued by torrential rains and typically Holland weather, for fall not high summer! Anyway, I was pleased to see so many kids and parents show up and between the downpoors and it was tons of fun photogrpahing the kids. There can hardly be any better subjects in the world!

The patient dad from heaven.

Ground kite and kid color combo.

Launching kite mayhem.

That’s not gonna work either…

Kelly Rowland live at Sun City's POSI+IVE event 2008

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Jun 142008

Kelly Rowland headlined the 2008 edition of the POSI+IVE event in South Africa’s Sun City. The Sun International event raises money for some of their AIDS projects all over the country. With ust a few days notice (Backstreet Boys had to cancel due to family circumstances) she managed to pull a great show at the POSI+IVE Rocks Gala.

Radio538 Queensday Concert 2008

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May 022008

While I’m in Scotland enjoying a four day holiday-slash-little-work-thing I couldn’t resist quickly uploading a good selection of the Koniginnedagconcert photo’s from the Museumplein in Amsterdam. This was the fifth or sixth time I photographed this fun event for organizers Radio538, the largest Radiostation in the Netherlands. About 100.000 people visit the concert, the largest one for Queensday.

Frank Dane from RTL5′s report on the concert.

Overview from the VIP deck.

Krezip, great show as always!

DJ Jean knows dancers…

Gerard Joling.

Impressive show by Idols winner Nikki.

Overview from the frontstage.

Badly tempered during the show but still managed to take a decent picture: Anouk.

Hollands fascination: Jantje Smit.

Radio538 jock Jens timmermans in the on-stage studio.

Father & Friend : Alain Clarke with his dad Dane.

David Guetta, one of the best closing acts for this event ever.

Click the slideshow or click here to go to the album.

Artists that day: Milk Inc., I.O.S., DJ Jose, Dennis, Leaf, The Opposites, Syb van der Ploeg, Wolter Kroes, VanVelzen, Het Feestteam, Fouradi, Krezip, De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, Jan Smit, DJ Jean, Gerard Joling, Racoon, Peter Gelderblom, Nick & Simon, Jeroen van der Boom, Mêlee, Nikki, Sander van Doorn, Lange Frans & Baas B., Charlie Lownoise & Mental Theo, Di-rect, Alain Clark, Kane and finally David Guetta.

See you next year!

Dance4Life Kickoff

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Apr 292008

Saturday the 26th was the kickoff for the new Dance4Life season (which is two-yearly). An almost blue sky and the Rotterdam Willemsbrug were the setting for the start. Goal was to make a live and dancing Dance4Life logo on the bridge. Just enough kids showed up despite the May holiday being a little bit of bad-timing. But hey, it was a nice sunny day which was closed in style by DJ Don Diablo.