Images from another great edition of Radio 538 Queensday Concert at the Amsterdam Musemplein!

Happy glasses

Di-rect

Esmeé Denters backstage

Ilse DeLange

DJ Tiësto

The panorama is a stitch of several Canon 5DmkII images to make it one 25 megapixel super panorama. Watch out for more to come.

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Stage view with Markus Schulz on the decks (21mp).

Another view from the crance (20mp).

Placa Catalunya, the massive square in downtown Barcelona. Filled with shoppers, people on their way from and to work and zillions of pigeons and touristst feeding them.

This has got to be my favorite square in the town: St. Maria del Mar. The church is amazing but the square is empty and boring… that is: until a wedding starts and usually one doesn’t have to wait long for that to happen.

The market of Santa Catarina is built on the old ruins of a monastery of XIII century and is a great place for photo’s like this couple having lunch.

The Parade del Gigantes also starts and finishes at this amazing Placa de St. Maria del Mar, famous for it’s Church and plentyful weddings.

Placa Virreine is a good place to chill and get some coffee as these elder people show.

In the June issue of ANWB REIZEN (Travel) a ten-page article on the best squares of Barcelona with some nice blow-up images. The opening spread is one of my favorite images from last year, one thet I really had to crawl into the crowd to get: the wedding ceremony with all the rice. Next week I hope to find some time to upload all the images from this shoot, one of my favorite ones by far as I really tried to get up close and personal with my subjects.

Text: Femke van Welsenes
Photography: Fotograferen.net (except the nightshot of the fountain).

One of the strangest days ever: April 30th 2009. What started out as a bright sunshiny happy day quickly turned into the sobering reality of somebody crazy enough to destroy innocent lives for a mindless attack on the royal family. Koninginnedag 2009 will forever be the one with a black lining. However, as one cannot send 150.000 people back home instantly: the show on the Museumplein simply just had to go on. A good show nonetheless but obviously most people lost a bit of their partymood (yours truly included)… A weird day indeed and therefore just a small gallery this time. Full series here (19 photo’s).

Ray & Anita from 2 Unlimited, performing live again after 13 years!

Lots of legs… who other than DJ Jean?

The closing tunes of DJ Tiesto.

Respect for the artists that did perform and ofcourse respect for those who felt it was impossible for them.

Milow…

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.

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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!