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Sacha, her Royal Cuteness!

Pooltime!

As a proud dad of a gloriously happy little girl I end up taking zillions and zillions of photo’s. Just recently the whole family moved over to Curaçao for a decent relaxation and a tiny bit of underwaterwork. I decided to post images from our girl more recent on my Flickr account and a few favorite ones on the website. Please enjoy, I hope she makes you smile!

I'm gonna whoop your ...!

Posing as Laura Croft!

Fashion girlie

Making friends

Best wishes for 2010!

Fotograferen.net Christmas 2010 Card, front

Thank you for reading my blog in such large numbers the last couple of years, recently I past 500.000 pageviews on my site in 4 years and the Flickr photohosting took well over half a million views, in 2009 alone!

So, I´d like to wish everybody all the best for 2010 and please enjoy the holidays.

Rutger Geerling
Fotograferen.net

Fotograferen.net Christmas 2010 Card, back

On the card (front, left to right): Contestant at the first Dutch marathon on natural ice in 12 years (January). My wife and daughter enjoying Spain (March). Panoramic view of the Austrian Alps near the Schwarzsee, Kitzbuhel (June). Idols winner Nikki at the Queensday concert in Amsterdam (April). A diver at the amazing Blue Hola divespot in Korcula, Croatia (September). The amazing island El Hierro and it´s volcanic scenery (Oktober). People dancing great Bacardi Beats at Visita, Rotterdam (March). The most impressive gig of the year: Tomorrowland Belgium (July). Britte van der Pouw ripping some pow in Les 2 Alpes, France (December 2008).

On the card (back): Grey Whale at a whale watching in Tofino, Vancouver Island (Canada).

Tomorrowland 2009 Wallpapers

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Tomorrowland 2009 Widescreen Wallpapers (1600×1000 pixels): lot’s of lasers and fireworks and one of the craziest Mainstages I have ever seen!
Also three up-close DJ Wallpapers: David Guetta, Derrick May and Paul van Dyk.

Tomorrowland Wallpaper Mainstage Massive Lasers

Tomorrowland Wallpaper Mainstage in Yellow

Tomorrowland Wallpaper Mainstage Aerial Overview

Tomorrowland Wallpaper Versuz Area Tomorrowland Wallpaper Versuz Dancer

Tomorrowland Wallpaper Mainstage in White Tomorrowland Wallpaper Mainstage in Red

Tomorrowland Wallpaper Mainstage Laser Madhouse Tomorrowland Wallpaper Mainstage Green Lasers

Tomorrowland Wallpaper Q-Dance Water Tomorrowland Wallpaper Q-Dance Stage

Tomorrowland Wallpaper Derrick May

Tomorrowland Wallpaper David Guetta

Tomorrowland Wallpaper Paul van Dyk

Tomorrowland 2009 [all images now online!]

Versuz Area

Lights, fireworks  and laser at the Mainstage

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.

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Tomorrowland Wallpapers will be ready before the weekend.

Versuz Area with David Guetta

David Guetta

 Paul van Dyk closing the Mainstage

[UPDATE] A large gallery of Saturday images here.
[UPDATE II] And a full set of Sundays images here.

Sensation White 2009 [Amsterdam ArenA]

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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.

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Heli-diving the wreck of the Superior Producer in Curaçao!

Helidiving the wreck of the Superior Producer.

Some guys have all the luck I guess, quite often I feel like I’m one of them but last week there was no doubt about it whatsoever. After doing a small press-release for the Telegraaf (the largest Dutch newspaper) on heli-diving in Curaçao, which is exclusively organized by a good friend of mine he suddenly asked me if I’d like to do it myself tomorrow?
After less than a nanosecond, a huge smile on my face and a big “Are you kidding me?” things were taken care of and a day later we were setting our gear up on a small industrial platform near the huge oil-harbor of Willemstad. With me were Belgium adventurer Marc Sluszny, underwater photographer Peter Verhoog and Walther Bruckschen, a German Journalist, the lucky bunch so to speak!

As a heli-dive is not completely without danger we had to do a full-gear practice inside the hangar which had a very good airco. Just imagine practicing this sort of thing with full wetsuit and heavy scuba gear in the soaring 35 degree weather of this tropical paradise! Most importantly is the jumping out of the heli: if this isn’t done in perfect sync the heli can easily tilt and that’s something you don’t want 2 meters above the surface of a sea!
The trick is a third person inside the heli that holds both divers hands while they climb outside and hang backward fully. Literally your faith is in this guys hands as he controls the moment to drop, it’s simply out of your hands.

Helidiving the wreck of the Superior Producer.
George from Blue Skies Helicopters.

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The Amazing view over Willemstad from the chopper.

And what a drop it is! After an intensely beautiful flight under the impressive Julianabrug, along Willemstad and all its bright colors, the low pass over the Pontjesbrug with many people waving and taking photographs (the helicopter is open so they see you in full scuba-gear) it’s time for a sharp right turn over the stunning blue seawater and the approach to the wreck site. Niels Jorissen, the owner of DivecharterCuracao and the organizer of these heli-dives, is already waiting with his 25 feet Tornado RIB (Rigid Inflatable Boat) so all we have to do is climb out and wait for the right hovering height of the helicopter.

Helidiving the wreck of the Superior Producer. Helidiving the wreck of the Superior Producer. Helidiving the wreck of the Superior Producer.
Now that’s a heli-drop!!!

So there we are, hanging outside, arm and legs stretched out fully, one hand over mask and breathing equipment, waiting for the plunge…. Then suddenly we’re falling, we pretty high so we have time to soak it up! above us the heli shoots upwards as it suddenly lost about 200 kilo’s in weight. Then the splash comes, water all around us and the tail of the chopper quickly vanishes from our viewpoint. We’re done, floating about while the heli goes for the next bunch of drop-outs! What an insane feeling and what a way to go diving, knowing one of the nicest wrecks of the Caribbean(the Superior Producer) is waiting for us below…. we ARE truly lucky!

Heli-diving with Marc Sluszny on the wreck of the Superior Prodcer.
The front deck of the Superior Producer.

Heli-diving with Marc Sluszny on the wreck of the Superior Prodcer.
Belgium adventurer Marc Sluszny enters the hold of the ship.

Heli-diving the wreck of the Superior Prodcer.
German travel writer/photogrpaher collegue Walther Bruckschen.

Heli-diving the wreck of the Superior Prodcer.
Underwater photographer collegue Peter Verhoog.

With many, many thanks to:
Niels from DiveCharterCuracao who organizes these heli-drops, unique in the world.
George from Blue Skies for making his heli available to us.
Chilo from Chilo.tv for editing the movieclip.

Full gallery on the heli-dive here.
More images from the Dive Festival Curaçao 2009 here.

In Qontrol, RAI Amsterdam

In Qontrol 2009, RAI Amsterdam (NL)
In Qontrol Mainstage… YOU?

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!

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MC Da Syndrome

In Qontrol 2009, RAI Amsterdam (NL)
MONEY? Stage

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Wow!

In Qontrol 2009, RAI Amsterdam (NL)
Headhunterz

In Qontrol 2009, RAI Amsterdam (NL)
More laser madness

In Qontrol 2009, RAI Amsterdam (NL)
DJ Luna

In Qontrol 2009, RAI Amsterdam (NL)
Noise Controllers

In Qontrol 2009, RAI Amsterdam (NL)
Show me the money!

Full set here.

Trance Energy 2009 pictures

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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!

Check out the full series here.

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Trance Energy Wallpapers should be ready by tomorrow afternoon, there’s just too many cool shots to choose from!

The White House – Hoofddorp

Report for Tulp Magazine of another “White House”, this one’s in Hoofddorp, near Amsterdam.

The White House - Hoofddorp, pages 1&2

The White House - Hoofddorp, pages 5&6

The White House - Hoofddorp, pages 3&4

VARA's TV Moment of the Year 2008


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.