There was not a lot happening recently here, but that does not mean me nor Sandy have been sitting idle.

Recently there was an exciting launch of a campaign Sandy featured in!

Together with our friends Klaudie and Peter of Onderwaterbeelden.nl we worked on the commercial for a full day.

Check out the end-result below!

Below a video I've put together with some drone footage of the Northsea expedition.

Earlier I learned the hard way that electronics and salt water do not mix well, so flying over salty water with a drone was kind of nerve-racking.

You can get used to it though.. ;-)

A few months ago I got caught up in an interview for a NatGeo Wild show that aired worldwide on TV last week (bad pun intended).

Having enjoyed watching the "Caught in the Act"- show myself for years I was pretty happy when they approached me to do a piece on our encounter with Mobula Rays in Baja California.

In the short video I am asked to talk about the encounter with the Mobula Rays that jumped clear out of the water and schooled in the hundreds below the surface.

Recently the images of our encounter with the mobula rays in Baja were also published on DivePhotoGuide.

I am super thrilled to announce that I have won the National Geographic Frans Lanting Award 2014. My shot was selected as the overall winning image by the jury out of 5000 submissions. Winning this competition means a lot to me and shows that the effort put in planning and executing shoots as well as all the investments in equipment and travels are not in vain.

Above a short movie on when the final results were announced by Humberto Tan and Frans Lanting himself in the live broadcasted RTL4 Late Night Show. I was a bit flabbergasted :-)