Great community

I live near a park, the Erasmus Park in Bos & Lommer (Amsterdam West). Unfortunately the organisation of the event that was held there had not enough money to hire a professional photographer like me. Nevertheless I made some pictures because photography it’s what I like to do best!

Do Good

When you do something you love to do, it always has value. Therefore I quite often do voluntary work as a photographer. For example a project for https://www.hartekind.nl, a charity for children born with a heart defect. They collect money by organising bicycle races so I have made a photo documentary for them. Seeing people […]

Run for love

Run little boy Run to what you love As long as you Don’t walk away from love

Curiosity

Curiosity is something that is timeless and not bound to a certain age. However; children have the innate capacity to have a curiosity that is in the centre of their being. Look at the eyes of this little fellow! While enjoying his sweet treat, he looks at me with curiosity in his eyes. Wonderful eh?

In the flow

Photographing someone is always an act of co-creating, as I was trying to put in words in this post. Just with other forms of connecting with an other human being, you sometimes come across someone who you are in a continuous flow with. With Joachim I had this experience and that resulted in having Joachim […]

From behind the back window

Since we are amidst a global shift of consciousness due to the Corona pandemic, and people are distancing and getting closer up at the same time, I have shifted my photography more towards the many vintage cars in my hometown Amsterdam. As I was cycling on my city bike on the Amsterdam canals, I saw […]

Halt mich

German is, just like my native language Dutch often perceived as a harsh sounding language. That might be, but if you master the language, you know better. This Christmas I participated as a photographer in a volunteer project in which volunteers kept elderly people suffering from dementia company and made pancakes. In many ways a wonderful […]

Inspired by your limitations

I have written about my Leica M8 many times before…and sure I will write things that I have written in some form or another before, but this camera is truly magical. In many ways that is, but foremost the fact that it has some limitations that put off many photographers of buying an otherwise amazing […]

Fearless joy

I live near an elementary school and being a photographer means that I often work at home and hear the little children having their first break at school. It is truly a joy to hear the children screaming, yelling or just making weird noises. The total lack of fear of being judged by others is […]

Transcending parenthood

After looking at this photograph, you probably think : ,oh well, just another cute kitten’. I understand. However, for me the photograph represents something way bigger. If you follow this blog, you probably know that I am the proud father of an amazing daughter. At 20 years old, she is not a teenager anymore. During her […]