Images from two weeks ago, long overdue to being abroad too much lately, when Bacardi Visita went sailing on the Pureliner ship in Amsterdam. Simply a very hot edition! Enjoy the slideshow…
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!
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.
Images from the Sensation 2009 party “Wicked Wonderland” in the Amsterdam ArenA with: Erick E, Fedde le Grand, S. Ingrosso, Mr. White and Sander van Doorn.
Visit the full Flickr Gallery here if you don’t want to use the slideshow.
Defqon.1 widescreen (1600×1000) and XL (1600×1200) wallpapers, ready and done! Just click on the image for the widescreen or the link below for the normal ratio (4:3).
And here they are: 265 photo’s of this years Q-Dance Defqon.1 at the Almere Beach. please enjoy, it was simply an amazing day with plenty of sunshine and a crazy liveshow to finish (Headhunterz). Wallpapers will be ready tomorrow (Monday) so you’re welcome to have another look again. As there are so many images to choose from PLEASE let me know which image(s) you’d like to see as a wallpaper!
Loud, fast, a zillion lasers and quite a crowd: that was the 2009 edition of In Qontrol, Q-Dance’s massive hardcore/hardstyle event in the RAI Venue in Amsterdam. Not much to say about it, the photo’s speak for themselves… if you like laser images: this is a photo-collection you’ll like!
Oh boy what a day: getting up at 04:00 to catch a cab to the Austrian airport at Klagenfurt in order to get home in time for Trance Energy is not much fun. Doing a full nights gig after 5 hours of sleep (plus a massive nap in the late afternoon) is normally not my cup of tea but with an amazing stage, show and lights and most importantly: a very happy crowd, the night was over before I even had the feeling it begun. It’s nice to start a night with plenty of cool shots straight away and plenty of other nice ones all through the night. Trance Energy 2009 was really one of the nicest editions ever for photographers, soo much light one couldn’t go wrong!
It’s good to be surprised now and then. So, while shooting the yearly Totally Snow event in Nassfeld, a couple of crazy guys started performing in the basement of the Cube hotel (The Club) as part of the weeks live shows. The bunch, better known as “The Subs” needed about three songs to get the crowd from “moving around” to “totally mental”, seriously one of the best live performances I’ve seen in a while and I ended up with a bunch of photo’s I just had to share.
A dance party a a homely location, Bacardi hits it off with an amazing new concept: Bacardi Visita. I was seriously impressed how an office floor got converted to a hot-hot-hot-partynight! With Beesmunt Soundsystem, Steven de Peven, Mocky and Golden Bug.
The idea of this new Bacardi concept is to recreate the old and glorious Cuban partynights hosted by the family-owned Bacardi company. Like entering someones livingroom and hitting it off with hot music, atmosphere and freshly mixed drinks.
My job was to capture this atmosphere and combine the old with the new. With a setting like this and a good bit off camera-tweaking I think it came out pretty well. A hot Cuban night with friends captured in stills. Enjoy!
Busy as it is I haven’t had the time to work on the images (not a big fan of ding so anyway).. all these are straight from the camera… hope that’s good enough for you!
Full gallery here…