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Not all photography field trips are comfortable. Today I took a group of photographers in the rain to photograph the restricted port areas of Amsterdam that have been abandoned or are closed to the public.

For this year’s Amsterdam Gay Pride, the Amsterdam Photo Club created a set of long exposure night photos, with rainbow light painting on one of the most iconic canal spots in Amsterdam: Keizersgracht and Leidsegracht. The photo was used and shared by many local social media outlets, including iamsterdam and Expatica.

Marquis of Pombal Square is an important hub for traffic and business in Lisbon. When searching for images of Lisbon on stock photography sites, it is easy to find old traditional streets, squares and trams. But little to no images of the more modern districts. Marquis of Pombal Square is located between the Avenida da Liberdade (Liberty Avenue) and the Eduardo VII Park in the former parish of Coração de Jesus and in the quarter of Santo António.

Instagram expert Andrew Stripp from Amsterdam Canals and his team, Dutchie and Brian Sweet, shared their expert advice with the Amsterdam Photo Club on how you can get to over 60.000 Instagram followers without purchasing your likes. They also show us how photographers can best use Instagram to promote their portfolios and business, the basics of the app, best practices for personal and professional use, how to best engage and improving reach to new audiences. We’ll also got an inside look at how to best use hashtags, filters and cropping for smaller screens. We also helped those that were new to Instagram set up their account and did some practical exercises. A great event for those wanting to interact with other local Instagram users.

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The annual King’s day fireworks display at Sloterplas is always a magical event. The fireworks can be seen anywhere along the Sloterplas. It will start at 22:00 and last for about 20 minutes.

A very nice evening with the rest of the Amsterdam Photo Club at the Amsterdam Sky Lounge together with Blurb, a well known self-publishing and marketing platform used by many photographers all around the world.  Daniel Milnor, Photographer at Large for Blurb, showed us how easy it is to design, publish, promote and sell professional-quality printed photography books (and eBooks) using their platform.

Photographing the Cherry Blossoms has become a annual event for the Amsterdam Photo Club. It is not the easiest event to plan, since they only bloom for a week or two. But definitively worth photographing.

Photographing the annual Pillow Fight Day is always fun. It is an excellent event for editorial photography. Though not without risk. Keeping a firm grasp on the camera, and shooting in fast speed is essential.

Following the terrorist attacks in Brussels on March 22nd 2016, the Eiffel Tower was lit up in solidarity with the Belgium flag’s colors.