News

This is where you find chronological updated information about my life, work and hobbies. Besides that, I've now integrated a photoblog, so come here often to check up on new images I deemed nice enough for display.

travel category

Trip to Slovakia

At the beginning of may I went on holiday to Slovakia, and stayed there with my girlfriend at her parent's place.

gear category

Nikkor 17-55 AF-S

In my series about camera equipment, it's time for an article about this particular lens.

work category

Dutch municipal elections 2010

A month ago we had municipal elections in the Netherlands. Although I didn't vote, I did lots of stuff to support different campaigns, and with great results. The biggest I did was to make a video registration of the election debate in Rijnwoude, as you can see below.

video category

Some old video content

Here's a video I shot last year, when I just took control of the new sony Z5e.

website category

Website revision 12

2010. We're living in the future! Time to update the website again. To celebrate this new decade, I'm introducing new technology, and discarding some old.

video category

Shooting transformers

On Friday September 4th a huge transport moved through my home town of Hazerswoude-Rijndijk. It took three days for the convoy of 3300000 kilo weighing power transformers to clear the town.

video category

Tug of war

Last wednesday I shot this movie for local media. It's a news item about the yearly tug of war contest.

photography category

Eyesore

Someone parked something terrible in front of the apartment building. I just had to take a picture of this eyesore.

website category

Ctrl F5 please

It was time again for another style update to the website. Please try a hard refresh of the page to update the stylesheet and images.

gear category

Thinktank Streetwalker Pro review

To compliment my video kit I still needed a good backpack or shoulder bag that would fit the camera, and not be too massive. Today I finally stumbled upon the bag I was looking for.

travel category

Prague 2009

Yesterday evening I returned from an amazing long weekend in the Czech capital Prague. Here's a picture of the Carls bridge by night.

rant category

The illusion of opinion polls

Mass media (radio, TV, newspapers) seem not to be very critical towards opinion polls. They simply accept poll results as news facts, and publish them without checking them. This overview of methodological problems of polls may help journalists to put opinion polls in a proper perspective.

video category

Omroep Rijnwoude football tournament

Last week I had my first attempt at shooting sports with a video camera.

rant category

European elections problems

The Netherlands have been used to electronic voting for years. But because of minor concerns, the whole process is now back to the middle ages. And then problems arise.

journal category

Ikea raid

Finally a nice day off, resulted in part two of my bookcase.