New Years Card 2012

New Years Card 2012

Images (left to right):
Dolf van der Wal, World Championships Snowboarding in La Molina (Spain). January
Martini Royal. Series for Bacardi-Martini, taken in various image outlets in the Netherlands over the course of a week. April
The best party of the year: Tomorrowland in Belgium. Still getting goosebumps from that crowd! July
Lankayan Island sunset for National Geographic Traveler, Malaysia. September
Toneshifterz, photographed with the remote-cam at Q-Base. Also nice as time-lapse! September
Mindblowing Petra, Jordan trip for Duikmagazine. October
Sun Anemone on Black Coral in the Gulf of Aqaba. October
Friendly Oman, welcomed with tea in a shop in Muscat. Trip for Oman Tourism. April
The best view of Gran Canaria, family trip for Duikmagazine. May
Pygmee Elepahants in the Kinabatangan rainforest. National Geographic Traveler. September
Inside card: Anemone fish in Malaysian Borneo: Lankayan Island.

 

For months the spectacular Canarian Island, El Hierro, has been under the spell of heavy volcanic activity and as we speak there are unconfirmed reports of a red glow under water near the so called “jacuzzi“. Seems there will be some extra land very soon!

The most popular diving area of the island, La Restinga, however has again been evacuated which must be a big blow to the diving community. I was there two years ago and was totally mesmerized by the place. Here are some photos from that trip (for Duikmagazine). Let’s hope things will calm down soon again.

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Rutger Geerling

My first ever photo in a National Geochraphic publication (the March iPad edition)!
Image taken at the 2010 Unox New Years Dive in Scheveningen.

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Unox Nieuwjaarsduik 2011 (New Years Dive)

Unox Nieuwjaarsduik 2011 (New Years Dive)

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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As the physical cards have now been sent by traditional snailmail it’s time to drop one online:

Front:
New Years Card 2011: Joy! [Front]

Back:
New Years Card 2011: Joy! [Back]

The photos are:
Front:
Couple Kissing at Awakefest 2010 (Techno party), Caribbean Carnaval In Aruba, The Eildons in Autumn Scotland, Truckload full off market gooers in deep Uganda (video here), ANWB Fashion shoot in Pitztal, Sailing the Dutch Wadden Islands, Unox NewYears Dive, The Ultimate Bacardi shot, Unox Boerenkool, Queensday megapanorama.

Back:
The birth of our second child; Luc Steven Geerling is welcomed into our family. Hello World!

 

Unox Nieuwjaarsduik 2010

Unox Nieuwjaarsduik 2010

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.

Now you see me...
Image: © Floris Diemel

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Hard at work @ the Unox Nieuwjaarsduik 2010
Image: © Patrick Savalle

Full Gallery here.

 

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.




 

Perhaps the Dutch are indeed a bit weird. In any way, we love diving into an almost freezing NorthSea at noon on newyears day. It’s called the Unox Nieuwjaarsduik. So why not bring out the trusty Canon 20D with UK-Germany housing, put on my drysuit and just wait.. till 12?

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