September 2024
September generated a photo mix of the routine, neighbourhood parties, work and travel.
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August 2024
Looking back on August, it was mostly a month of missed opportunities, as I wasn’t able to clear my head to be focussed (or be loose) with my photography. So mostly snapshots here and there from my dog walks. And I submitted this photo to the monthly Framelines Street Assignment,
July 2024
July was July, all work, with a few shots that vaguely resemble a summer break. Oh, and I had submitted this photo for Framelines’ street assignment ‘Fill the Frame’.
June 2024
Captures along the way in June. June 2nd: Photo book meetup & photo walk with Blurb-evangelist Daniel Milnor in Amsterdam. Educational, inspiring and fun! Pre-photowalk on my own in the morning. Photo book meetup at the Casa Hotel. Photo walk from along the Amstel River to De Pijp neighbourhood. Random
May 2024
Captures along the way in the month of May.
A dog walk in Baarn
Dog walking is as routine as it gets, at least five times a day. Practically, it means I hardly ever leave the house without at least one camera. Last Sunday, ready for a change of scenery, it was with two: a Fujfilm X100S with the Wide Conversion Lens (true 28mm)
Desidirium AD INFINitum
Desidirium = nostalgia. Nostalgia: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition. The question I’d like to explore: can (the resurgence of) analog photography merely be explained as nostalgic? What is that nostalgia in this context exactly? I’ve thought about the
A Frisian Wedding
At Christmas 2022 my brother & sister-in-law-to-be asked me to shoot their wedding on June 23 2023. A big deal, of course, that responsibility to deliver the goods and it would mean forgoing on being ‘a guest’. I thought about it and a few weeks later I accepted. The location
Camera
After 11 years of faithful service and 577.000 clicks my X-Pro1 has turned into a brick. It had been acting up for the last two years (specially during wintertime), but last week I broke its back, in the middle of a series of panoramas. As someone commented in the Fujifilm
SF & BM (2012)
‘Bucket list’ is corny, but for lack of a better description, I’ll just place my journey to Burning Man in the Nevada desert in that category. Years prior I thought I had a good idea about what it really was, but you know; ‘You don’t know, man, you weren’t there!’