I love reflections, shooting through glass and the way light renders the interior of a vintage car. But of course, it’s all about emotion. For me, the key to shooting in my documentary style is capturing these emotions in the best possible setting. Without interfering or pushing the couple in to the setting. Sometimes you […]
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Tuesday Travel: Good morning!
I was one of our first days in New Zealand and my wife woke up, got out of the tent and stretched in the morning sun. It was one of those perfect days and I just can’t get enough of shooting against the sun. It’s magic. Leica M9 with 35 summicron
Tuesday travel: crossing John Gardner pass
I never regretted having been an alpine climber for a few years. If you know how to handle a camera while it’s freezing, hanging in a harness, with an ice axe in one hand, you’ll probably be able to handle that same camera wearing a suit on a wedding. But the day we crossed John […]
Wednesday Wedding Pic: the first look
Although I shoot digital almost exclusively these days, sometimes I’m asked to shoot on film. For me, the biggest difference is the planning I’ll have to think about. Which film do I load in which camera and when do I change film? Focussing and exposure are similar to my digital workflow, except the exposure should […]
Tuesday travel: the boat
Cambodia is a fascinating country foe traveling. Although there are some parts you’d better not go to, there are lots of interesting places to visit besides the well know Angkor area. Here we took a boat trip to a fisherman’s village, on a lake that only exists in the rain season. When one of the […]
Tuesday Travel: Jesus and the sun
Some time ago I was in Buenos Aires and one of the places you have to see is the Recoleta cemetery. It’s too bad that a lot of graves are falling apart, due to economical misery, but it’s till a marvelous place to visit. I noticed this statue of Jesus and it was like he […]
Tuesday Travel: Cry baby cry
You know that Beatles song? It’s on the White Album. My favorite album, because it is so beautifully balanced. Anyway, that’s what I thought when I saw this picture again. Shot somewhere close to Siem Reap, Cambodia. Leica M9 with 35 Summicron (although the exif says something else…) You’ve got to love the rendering of […]
Backlit
It’s funny how the lack of light can make us more creative. Sometimes I hear people complaining about these dark days in december (for the readers on the northern part of the globe). They tell me it’s useless to go outside and take pictures. For me, working with concentrated light from windows, it makes me […]
Quicker than AF
Sometimes people ask how on earth I focus my camera with moving subjects. Well, I have trained a lot to get there, but in some situations you don’t need any training at all and will still be faster than the quickest AF-camera in the world. This image was shot on Cuba, while I was having […]
That good old Leica M8
Unlike most Leica shooters, I didn’t own a M5, M6 and M7 before I moved to the M8. No, I had a M9 and out of curiosity – and because I wanted a second body – I bought a second hand M8. In chrome. It was unbelievably pretty, even prettier than my black M9. It […]