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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.

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.