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Weekly Randon Shot: “Lybian Desert”

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Sep 082010
 

View over the Lybian desert

For a big assignment for Dance4Life in Uganda, last March, I took this photo while enroute from London Heathrow (LHR) to Entebbe (EBB). Hoping to catch a few nice photos at sunset this one came out quite spectacular though not that easy to capture as the light was dimming fast and the window was pretty iced up after 5 hours into the flight.

With an aperture of f2.8 I managed to still get a shutter time of 1/400sec at 100ISO. All shots with higher apertures turned out to too “dirty” from the ice particles on the window and the haze that was pretty much on each shot was removed by auto-levelling them in Photoshop and then turning back the over-contrasted areas with the curves tool where necessary.

All in all, an amazing view!

Floatplane landing on the tiny Paradise Lake (Tofino, Vancouver Island)

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Nov 182009
 

Landing on a tiny mountain lake with a floatplane is a fantastic experience wherever you are. But in this weather and in one of the most stunning places on earth: Tofino, Vancouver Island, it was simply and totally unforgettable. More on this trip for ANWB REIZEN Magazine very soon.

Many thanks go out to Tofino Air for making this one hour flight possible.
Filmed with the Canon 5DmkII Video function, so click HD for extra quality.

Airliner nerd

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May 082008
 

Yes, I’ll admit it: when it comes to airliners I’m a bit of nerd. Even though I’m often on an airplane more than twice a month I still get overly fascinated by these flying pieces of mechanical wonder.

Yesterday, after a nice portrait shoot with a VP of DSM in the Amsterdam Hotel American, I figured I’d make the most of the fantastic weather and hang around Schiphol Airport for a little while to photograph airplanes. A great excuse to keep my tan intact.


How Dutch can it get? Green grass, yellow flowers, murky brown water and a blue bird about to leave it’s nest!


Boytoys… ;-)

Come to it, I’m now trying to keep up a gallery with my finer airline shots. Quite a few are viewable on Airliners.net (made the frontpage twice now!). Enjoy!


What an amazing sight: sea, sun, sand and a couple of tons of shining metal coming in low on St.Maartens Princess Juliana Airport.


What a treat! On approach to Queenstown (ZQN) from Auckland (AKL) and flying low over the same snowboarding area, Cardrona, where I would be photographing New Zealand’s first offical WorldCup Snowboarding contest a week later. Yes, that road to the mountaintop is as scary as it looks.


VLM PH-LMT about to touch down on a misty Rotterdam Airport runway.


View over Saba’s very short runway (ca. 1300 feet/400 meter). Taken from the top of the Island’s vulcano: Mt.Scenery.