Timely planning of our family safari photography trip to Southern Tanzania and Northern Serengeti

June 11, 2017  •  Leave a Comment
We will this summer be spending 13 nights in Tanzania (Selous, Ruaha and Northern Serengeti). I already booked this trip in September last year. As we are a family of five we would not have been able to fit this trip in our budget if we had waited much longer. One of the places has 8 furnished tents, the other one only 6 and for our family I alread...
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Serra Cafema - Boy with albinism received protective clothing

June 30, 2014  •  Leave a Comment
In my blogpost of December 2013 on the Angolan himba boy with albinism suffering from heavy burning wounds near Serra Cafema at the Kunene river, I got an update on his condition from a traveller that visited the region in May 2014. On the picture below the boy is completely covered and he seems in a much better health condition than when I saw him...
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Abut Dhabi has the largest falcon hospital in the world

April 12, 2014  •  Leave a Comment
In April 2014 I had the opportunity to visit the falcon hospital in Abu Dhabi. It is an impressive facility where the hunting falcons of the sheiks are treated. From clipping and sharpening of the nails over replacement of broken feathers to complicated surgery, the clinique does all of it. More of my images from my visit to the falcon hospital...
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How to photograph a stranger? Try with a friendly smile !

April 06, 2014  •  Leave a Comment
I get asked frequently how I manage to photograph people I do not know. In April I was travelling through the empty quarter in the Liwa desert in Abu Dhabi and I saw this group of Arab men at the other side of the salt lake taking pictures. I walked to the other side while photographing my colleagues until I was standing next to the men and...
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Abu Dhabi; Visiting the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

April 05, 2014  •  1 Comment
In early April 2014 I was for work in Abu Dhabi. It provided me with the unique opportunity to finally meet my photographer friend Julian John. As I had a free evening Julian took me to the big mosque. Especially in the evening light the mosque provided many fantastic photographic opportunities. I was allowed inside without having to wear an abaya...
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