People and places

So I’ve seen some people and some places the past couple of weeks.

Starting out with Li in Rotterdam. On our way to visit the Last Days of Shishmaref exhibition opening.

Zeynep having fun with her new lens.

“I kinda think we look like we’re up to no good.”

Same weekend my dad celebrated his 60th birthday with the family.

Dad contemplating his age and wisdom.

Camerashy nephew.

Can’t help but love (photographing) fish.

Which reminds me I need to buy myself some new little buggers for the aquarium here at home.

Fish with feet!
About 1,5 year ago I uploaded a frame of this very same fish. I still get at least 3 visitors on my blog per day who googled “fish with feet”, haha.

Me telling my grandma to smile for the photo:

My mom.

Sister and her boyfriend.

Couple of days later my class had the recap of the exhibition opening, over lunch. Hotel New York in Rotterdam.

Photography playtime!

Li and me headed into the photographymuseum.

How awesome is this photo?! By Martien Coppens if I remember correctly.

On my way home.

Skyline of Rotterdam.

I don’t think I could ever take a photo which accurately shows how much I’ve fallen in love with this city.

Next day: off to Paris!

Getting welcomed by Cha and Vincent. It was great seeing them again!

Testing Vincent’s sweet 24/1.4 on Renault.

Visiting Paris Photo.

Saw some stuff I really like:

Nobuhiro Fukui.

And Saul Leiter! Man, that made it worthwhile going to the exhibit.

Met up with the Norwegian Englishman Trond.

Meeting back up with some of my classmates.

I don’t know what really happened here, but suddenly I got attacked by Asians and their cameras.

Lianne shakin’ that window like a Polaroid picture!

At the Lee Miller exhibit, where I didn’t take any photos because the guards almost literally jump on you when you try to take a frame. They scared the shit out of me.

Parisian skies.

Parisian cafés.

Having fun with Cha’s flash.

Moment of mutual understanding, shot by Cha.

Next day strolling the streets.

And me looking incredibly bored.
(Shot by Li)

But regained interest through lenses.

Lens swap happiness with Cha.

Got her 18-50/2.8 (and she my 50/1.8). So so happy to be shooting wide angle again!

Having goodbye drinks.

And back in class in The Hague again 2 days later…

Zeynep kicking about.

Arty dudes.

And having fun with the wide angle!

Hanging out with JD after the Jamie Lidell concert in Nijmegen:

More fun with the wide angle!

And returning home to Rotterdam the next day, finding a crime scene around the corner.

That’s it for now. Thanks for dropping by! Hope you enjoyed and all is well.
(I think I need to come up with a new closing line!).

October…

…and a little bit of September.

Back when the weather was still nice and me and my flatmates hung out on the roof.

These frames are all shot with 450D + 50/1.8 btw. Still saving up for a wider lens!

This does have a sort of digital smoothness to it, hasn’t it?
Still wondering how going digital affected my photography/photographs.

Looks like I was saying something really interesting, haha!

Hanging out in Nijmegen.

While keeping our teeth clean!

And messing around with developing RAW’s for a bit.
Does anyone else recognizes this weird lensflare btw?
It’s not the first time I had it, while shooting the 50/1.8 when there’s one heavy lightsource.

Cute Australian I met while bumming on the streets of Amsterdam with a bottle of wine.
This frame was shot in Rotterdam though :)

Heading into October now. And shitty weather.

Setting up my darkroom again, after 6 months.

Made a print I am really pleased with!
It was nice to mess around in the darkroom again.

The death of my fish pleased me a bit less though…

Visiting Breda Photo 08 with a couple of my classmates.
(Paris Photo 08 in 2 weeks! :D)

Reflecting surfaces means selfportraits…

More reflecting surfaces!

Happy face!

Confusing art! :D

And my favourite frame of that day.
(Again the strange lightflares though).

Being hungover with Tessa after an awesome night dancing our ass off at club WATT.

And aformentioned cute backpacking Australian visiting me again a month later.

He took a frame of me I quite dig:

Well, that’s it for now. Thanks once again for dropping by. I hope you enjoyed and all is well!
I’m off to the lab – so next time probably some analog frames again.