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Shooting portraits is a ’thing’ for me lately. I have been experimenting from time to time but last week I got to do it for real! I just have a thing for a great environmental portrait and a headshot or an intimate portrait are photo’s I really love taking. I just love the concept of […]
I’ve been very busy this week on assignment at the Maasvlakte and the Rotterdam Harbour area. My company Balyon is designing an annual report for a client that promotes Cargo shipment via rail. In the assignment we were also invited to go over to the Maasvlakte and the Rotterdam Harbour and take some pictures of […]
As a landscape photographer you spend a lot of time searching for great locations. Most of the times a good location is not enough for good Landscape Photography. Especially if you live in my neck of the woods. Here’s a great tip; once you have found a location it is a good idea to go […]
Lately I’ve been photographing a lot of long exposures. And I’m especially intrigued by architectural black and white long exposures. Inspired by artists like Joel Tjintjelaar and Julia-Anna Gospodarou I’ve been wanting/planning to do a shot like this for a long time now. Finally a chance arose. A building in my hometown of Leiden, The […]
Sunset at Katwijk, A good friend of mine wanted to experiment and learn long exposure landscape/seascape photography. So after checking the weather and tide and matching our own schedule we finally hooked up on a warm monday evening in July. We decided to go to the location where the Rhine finally ends up in the North […]
As you may or may not allready know I am a Graphic Designer by profession. In my work my clients and I often encounter the need for a regional image. Something that adds context to the design or emphasises it’s localisation. If you search for images you can find a lot of them on stock […]
Yesterday all of a sudden, after a whole day of drab and dreary weather the sky cleared in the evening. It was the second longest day of the year. I immediately grabbed my gear and headed out to the Valkenburgse Meer. A location close to my home that I haven’t visited for some time. In […]
I’m proud to announce that I’ve signed up to the website werkaandemuur.nl to sell some of my images. You can buy big canvas prints of my work there but I must say that there are many talented artists who sell their work through Werk aan de Muur. So go over there and check them out! […]
This is a Follow-up from a previous blog called Bulb Exposure, you can read it here. Never make the same mistake, right? Oops, I think I just did… This week I was passing a field with fantastic purple tulips. I was on my way to check out another location but was very happy to see […]
First sunsetshoot in May, the weather is finally getting to where you would expect it to be at this time of year. Nature is doing it’s best to catch up for lost time. The trees and grass are exploding with green and the sunset’s? Oh well, check em out for yourself! I was not planning […]