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Another great photo club meeting with photographers sharing their latest creations. The Amsterdam Photo Club provides a relaxed environment for participants to improve their creativity and expand their knowledge of photography.

Another photowalk with for the Amsterdam Photo Club. This time discovering the Jordaan district, passing by the Westerkerk, the Noorderkerk, one of the the city’s most popular markets, the Noordermarkt and visit inner courtyards in the neighbourhood.

Those interested in photography have most likely heard of the Nikon photo contest scandal last week. The winning entry “Look Up” by Singaporean photographer Chay Yu Wei turned out to be photoshopped. Though the photo was photoshopped, creating similar images is not that difficult without the use of Photoshop. Planes will depart and land in the same pattern  If you ever spot one plane landing in a nice framing while looking up, chances are that another plane (and another and another..) will fly through the exact same frame every 3 minutes.

This weekend it was time to photograph the annual Amsterdam Chocolate Festival. Many chocolates exhibited by top patissiers and chocolatiers, while seeing the latest trends and developments in their business. A photographic journey through the cocoa chain, and at the same time learning how chocolate is being made from bean to bar.

Bahrain is a great place for photographing cityscapes. The land with two seas located between Saudi Arabia and Qatar in the Middle East has an impressing architecture, especially light up at night.

It is always fun photographing the opening of the Dutch tulip season, as National Tulip Day comes to town. . On this day everyone is invited to pick their own tulip for free from a specially constructed ‘picking garden’ at Amsterdam’s Dam Square! National Tulip Day brings Dutch tulip growers together for the creation of a massive temporary garden on Dam Square, bursting with around 200,000 tulips. More than 10,000 people come along to pick up their own free tulip.

Every two months, the Amsterdam Photo Club organises it’s core meeting of portfolio reviews. Giving the members opportunities to showcase their latest photos, learn and get inspired from each other. Tonight’s photo club meeting covered many photography genres: portraiture, journalism, travel, newborns, fine art, product, stock, macro and long exposures at night.

A photo from my ‘Nightmares’ series was chosen this summer for the German ebook cover of author Karin Fossum’s ‘Djevelen Holder Lyset’ / ‘The Devil Holds the Candle’ / ‘Dunkler Schlaf’
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Doing stock photography can be fun. I snapped this photo last Christmas of my mum’s krumkakes. And via Shutterstock, it is now featured in the recipe of Boston’s best chefs.

Christmas time in Amsterdam is a truly magical experience. This year’s Christmas tree on Dam square comes from Eifel in Germany. Always a majestic view to photograph, centered in front of the royal palace. The tree reaches 20 metres and is decorated with 40.000 lights.