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Epic Or Micro
Lately I have been thinking hard about developing my own kind of photography and the harder I thought about it, the more I realised that it is vital for me to have a true connection to the areas where...
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Out On The Windy Moors
This week has been all about getting that one perfect picture on the Posbank. I went there quite a few times, sometimes in the morning, mostly in the evening. I came to the conclusion though that I'd...
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Remember September
September seems long gone and so do the days spent in France. Even though we try to spend as many weeks there as we can, I still miss it the moment we have to go home. The other side of this is that I...
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A Blank Slate
Autumn 2016 came and went within a few days and before I knew it, it was winter and the chaos which is usual in the month of December took over. Weeks went by without me having a single second to pick...
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Endings and Beginnings
The first day of 2016 began exactly like the last day ended the year....with a very dense fog. The kind of fog that makes it difficult to drive, but also the kind of fog that can make forests look...
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How To Beat The Inspiration Blues
I have been an artist for 20 years now and the question that pops up in every interview I give is : "Where do you find your inspiration?" I have always thought that this might be an obvious question,...
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To Create
I have been thinking a lot about creating, being an artist and how we humans learn. A few days ago I posted this picture on Facebook with a passionate piece of writing of how we are put on this world...
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A Magical Mess
I was going through my Lightroom catalogue yesterday and found some images I took in a French forest. Dutch forests are surprisingly tidy compared to the forests I have visited abroad. I love these...
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Happy Making Magic
Last week I was incredibly busy with my soft sculpture work. On Thursday my weather app told me it was foggy, really foggy...I packed my bag and left home early. It soon became very obvious that the...
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What drives you
People often comment on me being very driven to get a pretty picture, sometimes even suggesting I have an obsession with getting that picture. This always mystifies me a bit, because no matter how...
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Staying Inspired
I must admit that I was really starting to feel like my mind would explode if I would not be able to take a picture soon, when the foggy circumstances just did not appear to be happening. Last weekend...
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Shades of August
August always holds the promise of something magical, something glorious, right when the summer is about to end and the trees are losing the greenest of their green, when the flowers lose their lustre...
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The Treasure Hunt
If life gets tough, you look for distractions. If life is tough for a long time, you tend to develop tactics to cope. The way I have always done this, was to go on a treasure hunt for the magic in...
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Seeing With A Sense Of Wonder
I am sure I am not alone in saying my mind often tricks me into hunting after the perfect situation that it has fabricated. Like this morning for example....I got out of bed, checked the weather...
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Connect, Not Collect
As a photographer surrounded by other photographers I notice that we are always hunting to capture something. You will be driving in your car and you see something utterly magnificent and for...
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Location, Location
Many years ago I read the advice from a very famous photographer that a good photograph is all about location. Something inside of me rebelled against this, because I so intensely disagree with this. I...
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The Mysterious
Sometimes dreams of magical misty mornings do come true. Last Friday evening I went to bed in this hopeful state of mind, because it had been foggy for hours here and it looked like it would not lift...
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What If Or If Only
In the minds of creatives two thoughts tend to arise often : " What if.....?" and "If only..." Even though only one word is different, there is a world of difference underneath these thoughts. "What...
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Be Prepared to Be Surprised
When creating, whether that be writing, photographing, designing...it usually helps to start with a plan. If you are a landscape photographer it helps to have a plan, because without one, you would not...
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Believe
I have lost track of the number of times I get emails, messages and comments from wonderful women all over the world, who tell me they simply can't do what I am doing, because they are not creative....
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