Ready to rumble!
Photo: Kevin Verkruijssen
Every year, 10.000 crazy Dutchies jump into the 7 degree water (44°F) of the North Sea to celebrate the new year! These photo were taken with my pro-underwater photo gear while wearing my drysuit. Took the plunge myself later that day just for the fun of it
January 1st, 12:01 – The madness is GO!!!
Photo: Joey Timmer
Two hours later, I’m off myself! 
Photo: Kevin Verkruijssen
Three mouths that feed in Dutch Waters.
Taken on a dive in the Grevelingen (Southwest Netherlands), Zeeland (Den Osse divesite)
Sagartiogeton undatus (Small snakelocks anemone)
Urticina felina (Dahlia anemone)
Metridium senile (Plumose anemone)
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Scraping left-over bits of powder from everywhere we came up with quite a few great shots on this Austria roadtrip. No wonder, because when shooting with Timo Hermeler it’s usually impossible not to return with gems like this. [St. Anton, Austria. 2008]
A few weeks ago I was asked to setup a showcase series with my favorite wintersports photos for the popular Tacky website. But as they have a strict policy of not showing ski-photos, which I love taking, I decided to upload the whole series of 44 images onto my own website too. I’m a wintersports photographer in a broad sense, I hope this shows a bit of what I love doing so much and why. It’s a story into my work, I hope you enjoy it! Click here for the full gallery!
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Simply the best view in the Alpes, high on top at Les 2 Alpes watching over the Mt.Blanc. Privileged! [Les 2 Alpes, France.2007]
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There’s no better start to a skitest photoshoot than this! Fresh pow, a deserted skiresort and a mountain with a perfect angle. Even better when it’s snowboardcross coach Frank Germann kicking ass! [Bad hofgastein, Austria.. 2009]
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As the Dutch Ski Associations head photographer I also do the skiing. From a photography point of view a very worthwhile job, espcially if you get photos like these from the champ; Alwin de Quartel. [Schladming, Austria. 2009]
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The Belgium freestyle champsionships is an insane party week that features some amazing snowboarding. Especially the kickers are always huge and Seppe Smits knows what to do with them. [Les 2 Alpes, France. 2010]
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Bad light is no excuse for bad photos. Though it does help when your subject is Richard Molenaar, one of the most stylish skiiers I know, dressed in near-fluor colors. Ans yes, this is very close! [Sölden, Austria. 2011]
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The Berghuis sisters have become like sisters to me after all these years of shooting. But Britt somehow managed to avoid getting a decent powder photo taken. Then, suddenly, it all came together: a small stretch of fresh cold powder that needed to be shredded. After a small discussion we both ran to our positions and this was the result. Ten minutes later that whole stretch was completely done for by a zillion tourists. [Les 2 Alpes, France. 2007]
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Perhaps one of my all-time favorite ski-photos. It all came down to a matter of good timing and Gebke Compeer understood just that. To me it just shows the ultimate freedom of beeing in the snow. [Bad hofgastein, Austria. 2009]
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After a long testweek photoshoot it is fun to fool around a bit with a massive block of icey snow, leftover from the Hannibal show on the Sölden glacier. Rens de Wild knows what to do with it. [Sölden, Austria. 2011]
People regularly ask me if there is anything to see under water in the Netherlands. When scuba-diving comes up in a discussion in my home country it is rarely understood that bad visibility doesn’t mean there’s nothing to see. On the contrary, below the waterline the world is teeming with life and I think this photo shows that perfectly. So, if you’re willing to battle the often poor viz you’ll be in for a surprise!
Gemaal Dreischor (Zeeland, The Netherlands)
August 17th 2011. Canon EOS5D + 15mm f2.8 (UK-Germany housing). 400ISO, f11, 1/40sec. Viz: 1-4 meters.
From my album: diving the Netherlands.
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Baby Cuttlefish on Seasquirt (Zeelandbrug).
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A few testimages with my new underwater strobes (Inon Z240) at the Vinkeveense Plassen in the Netherlands.
Images were taken at the “Zandeiland 4″ location where a bus was sunk for diving just recently (early May 2011), there’s also a nice little wooden wreck out there which is great for model photography. All in all a very pleasant location to test some new equipment!
The Bus
No seats, standing only!
The bow of the wooden wreck
And the stern, in spooky light…
Thnx @Peter Zaal for patiently modelling for me!
Camera failure (error 99) after 5 photos sucks big time, especially at a big photoshoot like this! Three photos came out nice though, these are two of them.
See “behind the scenes” images at my Fotograferen.net Facebook!
The Unox New Years Dive saw 10.000+ people jumping into the icecold North Sea at Scheveningen Beach in The Netherlands. A great and fun event to photograph, especially if your equipment doesn’t fail on you.
Client: Unox
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It’s…. the 11th of the 11th, time for Carnaval!
Now as an article on Duikeninbeeld.tv, Hollands most popular online diving community. Click here to check out the post on Fotograferen.net, earlier this year.
Ten years of Q-Dance, “representing the harder styles in dance music”, had to be celebrated by a massive party. And fully-blown it was, a fully decorated ArenA stadium in Amsterdam was the venue for this absolutely insane partynight. Hot, humid and loooooud!
Client: Q-Dance
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Just a day before becoming a father again I had an hour or two available to photograph the Delta LLoyd North Sea Regatta 2010 in Scheveningen. Just tried to stick to doing some nice imagery with a focus on the Delta LLoyd logos and not spending too of my not-so-good-concentration on the surrounding events (there was a really nice jazzy show in the evening). Here’s just a few images that I liked taking in the poor weather, but in the end the fog just added to the atmosphere and gave the images a sligthly surreal feeling.
Customer: Delta LLoyd (through Kumpany)
Full slideshow (28 photos):
