Monthly Archives: May 2011

Grounded

Here’s a recent shoot I did with local/organic/in season produce, excluding the dragon fruit of course. I decided to shoot it because it’s such a cool looking fruit inside and out. These were bought from the Saturday organic market (again, minus the dragon fruit) around the corner. I wanted the images to feel like they were photographed underground ready to be harvested and the light to feel like it was piercing through the ground. Although the cross sectioned images on the right look as if the light is emanating from the vegetables/fruits.

I did eat every thing after, so no waste.

Life’s a beach

Actually more like dunes. Just over 25kms out west of Amsterdam are rolling dunes in the Zuid-Kennemerland. Beautiful and picturesque, it’s amazing to think that I’m still in Holland. Oh I did hit the beach after as well. Awesome day.

Tired and True

I was riding my bike last week and I spotted this unbelievably packed van. Funny thing was there were like 4 or 5 more tires lying just in front of this. Who ever stuffed these tires in probably has some mad Tetris skills.

Keukenhof – Pictures of people taking pictures of other people/flowers

Tulips everywhere. Oh my! If you know me, then you might know I’m not that big into flowers. So when my girlfriend asked me if I wanted to go to the biggest flower festival in Holland, I said “Yay!” and “Woopie!” because I love her. Anyhow, it took us over an hour just to get on the shuttle bus. Line after line and so many people you could have mistaken it for a sardine factory, we finally made it there. I mostly took photos of all the tourists taking photos of flowers. They were the most interesting subjects of my day. “Flowers. YAY!”

BEZET!

Here is a before an after look of “Bezet” or occupied plots on sidewalks around town in preparation for Queen’s Day (Koninginnedag). These Bezet plots are reserved days, sometimes weeks, ahead of time for the annual city wide free market / flea market. People of all ages try to sell off their goods and sometimes services.





Applied Arts 2011 Winner! Twice!

You can see the winning entries here:

“Paris Streets” in Photography Book Category:
http://www.appliedartsmag.com/winners_details.php?id=38&headerName=h_awards_winners_photography&clip=1&year=2011


and here:

“CRuSHeD” in Still Life Series Category:
http://www.appliedartsmag.com/winners_details.php?id=128&year=2011&headerName=h_awards_winners_photography&clip=1

Boat ride

If you’ve ever been to Amsterdam, you know that canals are everywhere. Living this long here, (first day tourist boat tour aside) I hadn’t yet experienced a private boat ride in the canals. We were lucky we had great weather. A must if you ever visit.
Check out this fun time lapse I made of the ride.

Leaves

Every spring, Amsterdam is covered with little golden seed leaves from the local Elm trees. They make the city even more dreamy and wonderful as they fly around in the wind.

Here’s a short video I made dedicated to these seed/leaves.

Koninginnedag

My first Queen’s Day. It was awesome. So. Much. Orange.