Category Archives: photography

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Printing high contrast black and white photos on top of mono prints

The other day I showed you papers where I painted over the top of high contrast black and white photos. Today I share with you the papers where I printed black and white photos on […]

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Painting on high contrast black and white photos

I’ve been experimenting a little with painting on top of high contrast black and white photos taken with my cell phone. I selected a couple of nature inspired photos that were not too busy, changed […]

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IJmuiden: rust, ropes and fishing nets

IJmuiden harbor, we’ve been there many times and I’ve posted many pictures. Today was a quick trip as my bfbf didn’t feel very well, but it was long enough to snap a few photos with […]

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Commission: Portrait of the Theologian of the Fatherland

One of my colleagues at the marketing departement of VU University asked me to take some portraits of Katya Tolstaya, who was chosen as Theologian of the Fatherland recently. Katya’s wish was to pose in […]

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New articles in my Society6 shop:

New articles in my Society6 shop!I took this image of a green, rusty and peeling window shutter in Venice last February and it seems perfect for furnishings, pouches and totes. Tote Desk mat Credenza This […]

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Commission: Capturing performance of ‘Fragile Earth’ by Antjie Krog

Over the last few weeks I had four photography commissions, in this blogpost I’ll give you an impression of the last one which took place on Saturday, 15 April. I captured the performance of the […]

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Commission: Public event ‘On Sacred Nature’

On 30 March, 2023 the Faculty of Religion and Theology at VU University organized the public event ‘On Sacred Nature’ at Rialto VU. “We invited famous religious scholar Karen Armstrong, Planetary Health Professor Pim Martens […]

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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 […]