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EVERYTHING STARTS WITH AN IMAGE

November 23, 2019
Everything starts with an image! With these words I sign my book the quest. Because that's how it started when reading that first page of the novel Night train to Lisbon. The rest is history ........ ›
EVERYTHING STARTS WITH AN IMAGE

3rd prize EISA maestro photo contest

June 25, 2019
Windmills, you like them or you don't. There seems to be no middle ground. I belong to the first category, and certainly in Flevoland. Of course I also know and understand the fierce discussions ... ›
3rd prize EISA maestro photo contest

chaos and doubt

March 09, 2019
The reaction to my images is not uncommon: ‘they radiate peace of mind’ or ‘simplicity and emptiness evoke a desire in me’. I try indeed to avoid chaos and doubt in my eye on landscape. Recently,... ›
chaos and doubt

it rains in andalusia

March 01, 2018
And I read the book The Mind's Eye by photographer Henry Cartier-Bresson. The Mind's Eye ... .. an intriguing title, with an equally intriguing passage: “My passion has never been for photography ... ›
it rains in andalusia

I dream of photography

November 15, 2017
Roughly translated to Vincent van Gogh, I start this blog; 'and I'm photographing my dream'. My dreams, of which I later think, why did I dream this? I can never resist the temptation to google to... ›
I dream of photography

the dolomites choose me

September 06, 2017
Why did the Dolomites choose me? This summer, high in the Dolomites I took the above photo. At a moment that my image of a hike in the Dolomites was a bit different from the reality. It was more... ›
the dolomites choose me

it's about the eye

July 16, 2017
Do you recognize this: you are back home from holiday, look at your pictures and think: hmmm in real life it looked a little bit different, more beautiful. Well, maybe you are on holiday now,... ›
it's about the eye

a matter of time

June 25, 2017
It’s all a matter of time. An insight that I recently was given on a silver platter. Matter, according to the dictionary, means 'what it is about'. Suddenly, I saw my life in that light. For as... ›
a matter of time

doing by non-doing

November 24, 2014
In my latest blog, I explored to be visibly invisible. I do not know if it was visible but in a way, I was invisible since that time. Anyhow it felt like that. I did not show myself. And yet I... ›
doing by non-doing

visible unvisible

May 09, 2014
Recently during a photo session, I received feedback that I was visible invisible. I had to think about that. Because what is this? You're clearly present but not bothersome? You are there but... ›
visible unvisible

and there I was.. back home at the couch

April 27, 2014
And not at that lovely bench in Lorca, Navarra, in the picture above. At home with just one big desire: back to the camino. I still hear my dear friends say: is it a good idea: just 2 weeks... ›
and there I was.. back home at the couch

portrait of a landscape

February 09, 2014
My eye on your landscape A portrait can be made in different ways. I, recently, could make a portrait of some entrepreneurs. A portrait shaped by a landscape. Yes, indeed, my eye on landscape, a... ›
portrait of a landscape

charisma

December 03, 2013
What is your charisma? A good question to start with in 2014. After a year in which I came closer to my eye on landscape, my essence, to see that spatial planning is really my core business, to... ›
charisma

lake district

September 09, 2013
It was a very cold Sunday morning, at the end of January, the wind raged across the countryside in the beautiful Lake District in Great Britain. Together with a group of English photographers I... ›
lake district

moving

September 09, 2013
How do you move in your photographes? The other day I looked at the photos in my archive and suddenly noticed the change in my photography over the years. Of course, I have grown photographically... ›
moving