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Last bmx jam of the 'saturday night fever' series in Everland, Amsterdam. Nothing too special photowise, just some snaps of the night. Scanned Ilford HP5 pushed to 800.
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Four days of luring around twenty kilograms of equipment resulting in four mediocre photographs. Definitely fun to do, but still a lót to learn.
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First go at shooting bmx on the hasselblad camera. Used black and white Kodak T-max 100 because I still had a few rolls of them lying around. Luckily it was bright and sunny enough outside. All are natural light, except for the indoor portrait. For those on a tiny screen, I realize the photo's are huge, but they just don't work smaller.
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Right after the bmx jam in Deventer I went to Amsterdam to stay the night. Next day I would spend all day with Roy van Kempen shooting photos. This guy is pretty dialed with everything he does and determined to get that one shot which makes it a relief to shoot with him. Anything could be done over and over again, except for the crazy no-hander off the huge red ledge. That was a one-chance-only shot. Right after he landed it a girl came out of the house next door to celebrate the adrenaline rush with Roy. Oh, and those heavily retouched b/w shots... I have a reasonably explanation for those. Just finished looking at multiple Ed van der Elsken Amsterdam photobooks last week. As I am writing this some more photos on film are being developed right next to me. Need to finish that and then let them properly dry, scanning and uploading usually go after that. Will be online maybe later today or tomorrow.
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Put down a jam in Deventer this weekend with the 031bmx homies, supporters and sponsors. It was a super good night in which a lot of good riding went down, beer was sufficiently present, but most of all everybody was having a good time. More details on the event can be found in forementioned link. Besides having a good night I took some time to get a shot every now and then. Didn't feel like strolling around with lights all the time so prepare for some grainy black and white photos. Last photo has been shot by my good friend Rolf! Took some more photos on film but they still need to be developed. Might find time for that somewhere coming week. Just check back every now and then.
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Shot some Medium Format DELTA3200 film for the first time last month. Can't really say what I think of it because I messed up the developing part. Well, not even really the developing part, more so the waiting after developing so the negatives can properly dry part. Meaning I didn't. Got all kinds of weird dirty spots on them I can't get off for the life of me. Lessons learnt. Take your time. The other two are small polaroids I shot while helping out foamlab at their Lomography-event in FOAM Amsterdam. Basically having almost 1.000,- euros worth of polaroids getting shot away by (mostly) clueless visitors haha. Was a good night though.
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About two years ago we lost our friend Ricardo. Yesterday a skateboardjam, dedicated to Ricardo, was organised for the second time. It was a good day in which we had moments of remembering but also moments with lots of fun. There was a skateboarding demo by the Dutch Circa team, a best trick contest, a video premiere and a little exhibition with photos of last year and older photos of Ricardo. On top of that we collected over 300 euro for the Dutch Diabetes Funds.You can find photos from last years jam and even older photos from Ricardo in the archives.
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Have been scanning some rolls these days on my newly acquired scanner. Some old random colourfilm from many a months ago and some 35mm delta3200 and 6x6 Tmax 100 from christmas holidays.
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Celebrating the change of the year in style. Tried to capture all the beatiful eighties-style outfits in a series of candid portraits. To anybody I haven't spoken yet; all the best for 2010! To the people who were at the party; thanks and I'll provide all the photos on a later time!
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Some from a roll of Delta 3200 film.
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Shoot with Charlotte.
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First colorfilm. Autumn in Middelburg and Delft. Kodak Portra 160nc.
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From two weeks ago. Ilford HP5 400.
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Random 35mm stuff from last year I was finally able to scan :-) Ilford HP5 400.
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Can't wait to shoot more rolls. Ilford FP4+ 125.
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Some 6x6 stuff. Got some more, still need to scan a lot. Ilford HP5 400.
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After 2 months of voluntary building by the main building crew (you know who you are) the park is now ready to ride. At 16.00 the jam started, at 16.30 the last bits of building were finished. Roof went down after that.
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Burnside bmx championships 2009.
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Got a chance to go up in the newly built Red Apple today. Took this panoramic shot from the 38th floor.
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Although I realise these aren't really good or interesting shots I still am really happy with these first results. Self-developed. The guy is Luc, a classmate.
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Took a couple of days end of August to drive (be driven actually) to a couple of places in the Netherlands. Starting at 8 o' clock on a wednesday evening Vladdie, Colin, Rolf and me drove from Middelburg to Delft. Half way we wanted to go for a swim to cool down. We also needed to clean Colins clothes which were supersticky and dirty not even 30 minutes into the trip due to an exploding bottle of coke. Unforunately we didn't find any sweet spots. A couple of beers, the hanging of a 2.25 x 1.50 meter flag of Zeeland, a good night of sleep and a tasty breakfast later we went on to Oldenzaal, to visit the oldest skatepark of the country (damn close to the German border). All afternoon was spent on finding a campsite, finding the campsite owner, putting up the tents, finding a supermarkt and finding something to eat. It wasn't untill the start of the evening before we could finally ride the snakerun. Didn't really matter anyways, was way too hot in the afternoon.

The skatepark of Oldenzaal is very nicely located. The snakerun starts on the top of a hill and, of course, goes down. At the end of the snakerun there is a funny little skatepark and beyond that is a swimming lake. Everything in and around the park is superclean. So we went for a ride and some swimming and had a good bbq at the place afterwards. That was untill hell broke loose and we had to find shelter at the campsite. Next morning we decided to go to the same place again, had an afternoon bbq this time. Late afternoon we drove to Arnhem to meet up with locals Souf, Ed, Dirk and a 4th guy of which I don't remember the name right now. Had a tasty pizza with beer and a good street session after that. Arnhem definitely has the best streetwallride I've witnessed sofar. Stayed over at Ed's place (thanks a lot!) and drove off to Aarle-Rixtel next morning. Quick visit to Paul's Boutique Bmx Shop and on to the FATjam. Good atmosphere, music, nice trails and export-beer to top things off. Funny evening at the local bar OJA and the streets of Aarle-Rixtel (Girl: "Hello, I am Marieke", Rolf: "Oh well, that's damn pity"). Fast forward to next morning, sunday. Being a bit hungover, thus not in a riding-mood, we went for a swim at the so called E3-lake (dug out back in the days to provide sand for the E3 highway). I had to start studies next morning so took the train to Delft, while the others went back to Middelburg.

Because I was too busy with having fun, swimming, bbq'ing, riding, drinking beers and breaking my nose I didn't take much photo's unfortunately. I do have some negatives though, which might pop up on here later if I manage to find the time to scan them.
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Streetjam, starting at 21.00h in Amsterdam. Crazy action and good times in low light.
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Rode the trails together with Colin on one of the hottest days of the year. Thanks to Rolf for pressing the shutter every now and then on the right moments.
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A short week of fun and rain in the beautiful city of Cologne. A festivity around bmx.
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Took a ladder this time.
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In a peaceful place at the countryside of Zeeland a small and dedicated group of friends has been digging trails for the last couple of months. Now that they are finished it's time to enjoy.
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A bmx jam went on in Rotterdam yesterday. An eventfull and nice day. You can read a little report in Dutch on 031bmx.nl.
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Thomas and Finn are on their bikes more often than not. A couple of shots from last week.
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Some shots at the just officially opened new 'skatepark Wim' in Middelburg. Rider is Vladdie de Koning.
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The day after the streetsession in Rotterdam I went to the A4-trails in The Hague, again with the roadbike and cameragear. Still without the bmx. A lot of riders from all over Holland happened to be here this day. Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Brabant, all were represent. Not really happy with these photo's, but hey, at least you can see some action going on!
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Went for a street session together with Jonathan, Stijn, Wijnand and Tim in Rotterdam. Didn't have my bmx with me, but took the roadbike and the cameragear. Had a really good session at these handrails. Enjoying the sun in the grass next to the stairs. Spring as how it is supposed to be. Unfortunately Jonathan messed up his ankle halfway the session. He was taken to the hospital by car and the rest went on to this other spot where Stijn did a massive railhop. I am looking forward to shoot another time with these guys.
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One of the first sunny and warm sessions of the year. The seaside at Flushing is one of the better places to be. Good spots right next to the beach. Definitely going to reshoot here another time. Too bad there are all kinds of construction work going on right now, whick makes it impossible to ride these spots...
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I started this new blog as of spring 2009. If, for whatever reason, you would like to see the entries from the last three years, which were posted on the former insanebmx.eu, simply go to the ARCHIVES.