Wat een feest was de Wilde Noordzee premiere, waar we ook het Wilde Noordzee boek voor het eerst konden aanbieden.
De reacties op het Wilde Noordzee project zijn overwelmend positief.
Momenteel hebben bijna 125.000 mensen de film gezien en zijn velen al eigenaar geworden van het Wilde Noordzee fotoboek!

The Dutch premiere of the Wilde Noordzee / Northsea Nature Untamed movie is close now.
It's the result of years of work of an incredible talented group of professionals from directors, producers, interns, cameramen, camera-assistants, editors, componists, writers, etc.
Here is a collage of the creative talents involved whom I was lucky enough to get in front of my lens while shooting their portraits for the project website.

The new edition of the "In the depths" book are out!

I just got my hands on two boxes full of copies from our chair(woman) Klaudie of the NGO "Duik de Noordzee Schoon".

The 200 page coffeetable book is now available both in Dutch and in English! Please click on either link to buy your copy. 

Or get it from me for only €19,50 (let me know)!

The first week of the "Duik de Noordzee Schoon" expedition 2020 has been successful, though impacted by heavy winds.

Multiple days were spent out on wrecks in the Wadden area looking for MSC Zoe trash, other days were cancelled due to wave hights.

Here is a short list of all stuff we found on the seafloor:

Different types of clothing, fishing chairs, electronic kettles, razor blades, cooking pans, belts, bathrobes, blankets (even one with a leopard print, an awkard find underwater I must say..).

Recently a 3m bottlenose dolphin has made the headlines in the Netherlands.

The dolphin paired up with an engineless cargo vessle named "Tres Hombres" 3 days prior to arriving in the Netherlands.

The Fairtrade sailing vessle was on the final leg of its 2 month voyage to the Dominican Republic where it picked up Rum and Cacao for the European market.

Upcoming Thursday I will be doing a presentation at the Gooise Onderwatersport Vereniging in Hilversum, tickets are still available (presentation in Dutch)!

Ik vertel iets over mijn fotografie, reizen, freediving en natuurbehoud.

Cliffhanger: het kan zijn dat ik voor het eerst iets doe met het vele filmmateriaal dat ik heb verzameld over de jaren!

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!

Shutterstock recently asked me to put in a few words on underwater photography and creating images of sharks underwater.

It must be said that I have long felt that contributing to stock agencies has not been fulfilling enough in terms of promoting a conservation mindset through my imagery.

It misses the ability to share the story of the encounter and the conservation status of nature and misunderstood animals like sharks in particular. 

I am happy to share that National Geographic chose my image to accompany a write up on the conservation work of Planeta Oceano's director Kerstin Forsberg.

I swear it's true, it's absolutely no lie!

The image shows a freediving Sandy that encounters a giant manta Birostris in the green waters close to the Peruvian coastline.

The yearly Dutch diving fair "Duikvaker" has come and gone.

It was great to catch up with friends, fellow (free)divers and underwater photographers.

On both of the fair days I shared my photography from the main stage with the audience.

I explained why freediving helps me get images of big marine wildlife and how I use it to create photo stories about our oceans.