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Venice in series: street abstracts

The second post of Venice in series of this year is about street abstracts. There is no strict definition of abstract photography, but the common element seems to be that it is about images in […]

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Venice in series: textured walls

As I mentioned in my last blog post I intend to publish a series of photographs I’ve taken in Venice, Italy during our stay there. The first in this series is about textured walls, Venice […]

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Our costumes and characters from La Commedia dell’arte

All of us dressed up as characters from La Commedia dell’arte. Photo by nillaaaax. As I mentioned in the first blog post of this series the theme of our costumes this year was Commedia dell’arte, […]

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Travel: Back from Venice, Italy 2023

Last week we came back from the carnival in Venice, Italy and we had a great time. It was our first time after three years when covid started. We’ve been there numerous times now, so […]

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Travel: A trip to the island of Terschelling

We celebrated the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023 on one of the Dutch islands called Terschelling. The islands are located in the north of the Netherlands. On one side they border the […]

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Art Journaling: Deck of Dreams 2022

I joined the free online class ‘Deck of Dreams‘ with Kellee Wynne Studios. Five days of videos, prompts, Gelli plate printing and journaling our dreams into a deck. I admire Kellee’s work very much, so […]

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Commission: Inaugural lecture of Professor M. Klaver

I haven’t had a lot of commissions the last couple of years and now I had two in two weeks.Today Professor Miranda Klaver gave her inaugural lecture named ‘Desiring a Heaven on Earth?’ at the […]

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Commission: Farewell lecture Professor Wim Janse

Today Professor Wim Janse gave his farewell lecture at VU University Amsterdam titled ‘The enterprising faculty.’ It was my of of my first photography job in two years, Corona regulations have hit me too in […]

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Slow Art Party: Innovate

This week’s theme of the Slow Art Party was ‘Innovate’: we could choose a pattern we liked (I chose a really simple wiggly shape) and innovate it in any way we liked, meaning drawing it […]