What do you mean taking photo’s on a consistent basis. Just noticed that we took almost the same amount of photos per year of our daughter with exception of the first year. Just funny to notice. (See print screen from my lightroom libary. 5th year just started)

Finally I found the time to go trough my travel photo’s of the last 5 years…. Shame on me for letting it slip so long. But they are finally here.
Below you’ll find some samples. (each photo represents a gallery, so when you click on it you see the rest)
Roma, Firenze, Pisa

Vienna, Luzern, Strasbourgh

Cyprus, Curacao, La Palma

North Sea Jazz Festival, July 10th 2011.
It was five years ago when I went to the North Sea Jazz Festival for the last time. So I was happy when I got invited by my mate. I looked forward to all the good music and the opportunity to take some nice shots
Most of all I loved the fact that Prince was doing a full show. It was many years ago that I saw a live performance by Prince, so just that, was already worth a visit. But also the other artists that we saw were more then just entertaining.
It all started with the preparation of my camera kit. What to bring, and where to put it. This year they only allowed compact camera’s or camera’s with fixed lenses. Personally i do not see the reasoning behind this. If you look at the quality and options of the modern compact camera’s. Some of them can easily compete with some ‘not so old’ DSLR’s. But anyways, I decided to take my Canon 5D Mark I body with a 50mm prime lens. (the smallest configuration), and my Canon G12. I gave my 70-200mm lens to my mate, who putted it in his bag.
The check at the entrance was though but I was terrible lucky that the doorkeepers were paying attention to some visitors that started a discussion. So they let me pass without a real check. So we were inside. We enjoyed Raphael Saadiq, Tea for 3 (with Dave Douglas, Enrico Rava and Avishai Cohen), and of course Snoop Dogg, one of my favorite subjects to photograph. Nowhere we were bothered whilst taking pictures. Below some examples of the shots, I was able to take.

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There fell a lot of snow just after new yearsday. So I decided to get up early so I would catch some nice light. Not knowing that I had to remove ice from my windscreen for almost 30 minutes. But it was worth to get out of bed at this early hour.
The light was beautiful and the fog added just that little bid extra.
It was good to see, that many people could appreciate this beautiful view and they went outside armed with their camera gear.
I used my Canon 5D, and overexpossed 1 stop to get the nice looking white snow.

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An annual tradition is to create our own personal christmas card, we always used our cat as main character, but since our daughter was born, she is the new main character. We made two variations. A small version that will be send via analog mail, and a large version that will be ditributed electronically. The first version is a clean version without text balloons. And the second version with text balloons.
So a merry christmas and a happy new year to you all.

I love to shoot while I am on the road, just traveling and taking pictures. It does not mather if I travel by car, bike, or train. I just like to shoot images of little things that I see daily when I travel. The images below are just a few examples.

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[Canon 5D and Canon IXUS 75]

With digital photography a complete new world was opened for me. And many new techniques were brought to my attention. I always have tried to use new techniques, even in the analogue era. But with digital I can almost say that there are too many to keep up-to-date.
So I try to lick one up once in a while And these try-outs you will find in the experimental gallery.
You will find several subject here, and especially for this gallery all comments are welcome. I’m still trying to learn. So to enjoy my try-outs on HDR, fake tilts, Photoshop edit, and in the future many more. Just click on the thumbnail to enter the gallery.

After my time at the academy, I stopped photographing for a while. due to many different factors. When I was introduced to digital photography I discovered that I was still enjoying it very much.
Thanks to the internet we can now share our work the easy way with the rest of the world. And so am I. The result is this webgallery. The complete collection can be found in my main gallery. This gallery can be accessed via several links that can be found on the other pages, but if you are impatient you can enter the the gallery from this page. But then you will miss out on the introductions and highlights. In the gallery you will only find photos and no text. To enter the main gallery, please click on the image

Having a Canon Digital IXUS, gives me the possibility to take pictures anywhere, anytime. I love to have this camera with me. And take pictures of unknown situations and places.
Besides that it also gives you the oppertunity to photograph everything that you want to be remembered. Without thinking about light, composition, and technique. In other words just plain and simple snapshots. I think that some of them are worth sharing with you so if you are interested click in the photo to enter the snapshot gallery
In this gallery you will also find pictures that were taken randomly so I had difficulty placing them in one of the other galleries.

Since I have bought my first digital camera I started to pick up photography again. Now I’m back at my old level and enjoying it again, so when possible I’ll take my camera with me. And without the limitations of expensive film, you can make a lot of images.
Fire

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During the summer its a delight to sit outside next to the waterside and light a fire. One night we had this special log that you could lit and it would burn from the inside out. After playing with it for a while is decide to get my camera and here you find the result.
Monkey Business

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One day Joan and I had this great oppertunity to photographs these monkeys. We really enjoyed ourselves. After a while the smaller ones had to balls to approach us and that resulted in a loss of equipment, they just stole it out the camerabag, so we ended up chasing them, without result. (I do hope they will find a good use for that sunhood…..)
But hey at the end it was worth it. I love the animal photos. it is always a joy to work with them.
Garden live

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Since we moved to our current house it’s the first time that we have a garden. And every summer its a thrill to see what grows and how the plants and flowers evolve. But sometimes you discover an unwanted guesst. Regardless how beautiful he is. And we are getting used to the spiders, maybe seeing how they build is nest makes it bearable. In the main gallery