Weekly Random Shot: Learning how to Scuba dive!

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Jan 062011
 

Learning how to Scuba-dive

I took this photo about a year ago while on a trip to Curacao (Dutch Caribbean). It’s a photo of my sister in law doing a refresher scuba course after not having dived for about ten years.

I really wanted to capture the “learning” atmosphere as well as the holiday setting with blue sky and something exotic. The swimming pool of our diving hotel (Habitat, I recommend it if you like to be in the nature part of the island) turned out to be perfect.

Took quite a few clicks to get a good half-shot with all elements in it. The parasol just gives it a nice touch.

Taken with my 5D and a 15mm fisheye, at f10 and 1/200 sec. There was more than enough light to work without flashes and set ISO at 100.

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Simple tip: how to delete old tweets

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Jan 052011
 

I wanted to clean up my twitter account but found it hard to delete old tweets. With a bit of fooling around the solution turned out to be super simple!

Go to Snapbird.org, a little online tool that allows you to search all your old tweets. With this finding the tweets to delete is simple (using the excellent search funtion). Under each of the tweets listed you’ll find a date- and time stamp, click on it and it will lead you straight to that specific tweet in Twitter. Press delete and voila!

Hope this helps! It is a lot easier that the incredibly complicated solution presented at the Yahoo website. When you’re done, hope you have fun browsing my site for some cool photos.

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The plazas of Barcelona, full gallery.

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Jul 172009
 

Just a lot of photo’s to enjoy from the “Plazas of Barcelona” article for ANWB Reizen magazine. Full gallery here or start the slideshow.

Placa Catalunya
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.

Placa de St. Maria del Mar
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
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.

Placa de St. Maria del Mar
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
Placa Virreine is a good place to chill and get some coffee as these elder people show.

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The ten best squares of Barcelona

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Jun 282009
 

ANWB REIZEN, The squares of Barcelona. Pages 1&2.

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.

ANWB REIZEN, The squares of Barcelona. Pages 3&4.

ANWB REIZEN, The squares of Barcelona. Pages 5&6.

ANWB REIZEN, The squares of Barcelona. Pages 7&8.

ANWB REIZEN, The squares of Barcelona. Pages 9&10.

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

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TV item on my work as a wintersport photographer on Rotterdam TV

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May 052008
 

Finally got a video that was aired in Rotterdam on RTV Rijnmond last year on my work as a wintersport/snowboard photographer. It’s in Dutch though, the item was taped at the Oxbow Opening of the 2007 season in Les Deux Alpes (France).

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