April 04, 2022 - Moving beyond the witnessed reality to express the reality of the witness For me this marks the difference between docu...

September 17, 2021 - The one thing that is stressed in the lifelong ongoing education of painters, draftsmen and animators alike is to sketch...

June 22, 2021 - Landscape photographers tend to chase the perfect light, the light that will lend to the scene a sense of glory that oth...

March 31, 2021 - A lot can be said about composition in photography, but often the frame itself, the aspect ratio, is forgotten when comp...

April 01, 2020 - Even though many people might think of Photoshop first for colour toning their images, there are many ways that this can...

December 10, 2019 - Like many arts, photography has a technical aspect and a creative element. Even though we might strive to improve our sk...

October 15, 2019 - A deliberate journey into unknown territory What started out as a trip to France turned out to be a journey way beyond m...

September 20, 2019 - If you have read my blog posts for some time, you already know that I am a big believer in revisiting a few locations ov...

September 16, 2019 - My pictures have a painterly feel to them and I am often asked what kind of filter I use to create this kind of look. Th...

August 30, 2019 - Even though there are photographic competitions, photography itself and art in general is not a competition. In the crea...

July 23, 2019 - If you have the latest version of Lightroom (Classic), you might have noticed two things. First of all, Lightroom (Class...

July 01, 2019 - Photography appears to be the only art in which the tool is believed to be the magic-maker. The number of times I am ask...

June 12, 2019 - In the past few weeks I have been tidying up so much that even Marie Kondo could be jealous of it. It is my natural resp...

April 23, 2019 - Every now and then I get these comments on my images that read: "Is this even real?". As I am a photographer, who is aim...

February 18, 2019 - One of the most asked questions I get is how I add contrast to pictures taken in very low contrast conditions like dense...

January 14, 2019 - Many photographers don't bother taking pictures in the bare winter forests unless there is a nice blanket of snow. The t...

January 04, 2019 - I spend the last weeks of every year reviewing my work, reflecting on what photographs I have taken, what I liked and di...

December 17, 2018 - Many creatives suffer from a bit of a loss of inspiration in the winter months. The weeks before Christmas are usually n...

December 13, 2018 - Composition in photography is no more or less than finding a pleasing lay-out for the subject(s) in your frame that work...

December 03, 2018 - Teaching workshops has made something very clear to me: most forest photographers are very, very scared of sky. I myself...

November 05, 2018 - One of the things that I am asked most often is about my way of working. Many people wonder how there can be room for sp...

October 29, 2018 - Many people believe perfectionism to be a very positive trait. People who are perfectionists are perceived as hard worke...

October 22, 2018 - Last week I was going over the pictures I had taken in France and this got me thinking of what exactly it is that is res...

October 17, 2018 - As I am sitting here reflecting on the past few weeks that I got to spend in the mountains in France, I keep thinking ab...

September 26, 2018 - Do you ever feel like you somehow lost connection to inspiration? That the times you felt truly inspired feel like dista...

September 12, 2018 - For many landscape and nature photographers, autumn is their favourite time of the year. The colours are stunning, dewdr...

September 05, 2018 - Storytelling is inherent to being human. Ever since we started to populate this planet, we told stories. Even before hum...