Time to spoil you guys with some more photo-goodness, I have to make up a bit for the long period of silence .
Yesterday I gave my first Shooting Day workshop for LIME (www.squeezethelime.com). It was a beautifull sunny spring day, the type of day you can only dream of when you are trying to pick a date for your workshop !
After being stuck for almost 2 hours in the huge traffic jam on the Brussels ring road I arrived at LIME headquarters in Steenokkerzeel and I got to meet the 4 participants that where attinding my sold out workshop : Jef, Jamy, Syra & Jan.
The purpose of this Shooting Day was to show fellow photographers how I work & to try and teach them some new tricks to help them improve their skills even further. Ofcourse, for this you need a couple to take place in front of your lens …
After I asked on Twitter who was willing to model during this day I was one very happy camper when my very good, Dutch friends Ellen & Marco send me a message telling they wanted to come down to Belgium and carry out this important task. Ellen & Marco are a beautifull couple & above that they are 2 extraordinary wedding photographers down in the Netherlands !
It felt awesome to see the participants go at it & to see the hotness they managed to capture using their cameras. I’m sooooo looking forward to seeing their processed pictures !
To end this fantastic day I decided to shoot the last half hour and show them how I handle a location & how I try to use all the different elements that are there. The half hour became a full hour (hey, I was having fun …) and I liked what I was seeing . Below you can find some of my shots & a slideshow showing you all the finished photos from yesterday.
Ellen & Marco : thank you very very VERY much for driving such a very long way to Belgium & to model for us ! Love you guys !
Jef, Jamy, Syra & Jan : thanks for participating & to make this day so amazing ! I hope you learned a lot & I’m looking forward to witnessing your progress myself on your websites & blogs the next couple of months !
Enjoy the photos ! In the mean time I’m going to finish packing because I’m about to leave on a 3 day snowboard shoot in Switserland. You can all be expecting a trip report next week !
Quiet, lifeless, some words to describe the status of my blog the past couple of weeks. I kind off neglected it a little bit and therefore I want to apologise.
What’s been going on the last couple of weeks ?
Well, I gave my first Capturing Romance workshop, the reactions where all very positive (those of you who understand dutch can read a report on Jef’s blog, one of the participants, here. It felt great to be able to share my knowledge with other photographers !
Also my diet is going according to plan, the scale is already indicating an 11kg weightloss. I passed the half way point and I’m feeling gooooooood !
Oh yeah, and since yesterday I became one year older, luckily the first signs of old age are still far away so I’m still filled with energy & passion to keep shooting your wedding- & engagement sessions !
Because a photographers blogpost is nothing without photos, I would like to introduce you all to Sarie & Nicolas. This afternoon we used one of first sunny, spring days of 2009 to capture their engagement session.
I still have a lot of 2008 weddings to present you & also some new engagement sessions, but since I had to finish Sarie & Nicolas’ photos today I decided to use this opportunity to show them to you right away
Sarie & Nicolas, thanks for a very fun afternoon ! Good luck designing your invitations, I’m very much looking forward to shooting your amazing wedding !
In a few hours, the biggest party of the year is about to start : Carnaval Aalst. 3 Crazy days filled with friends & truckloads of fun (oh and yes, I might drink some beer now and then )
Most of you will have to miss out on this amazing event (wether or not on purpose), but as a way to comfort you all I would like to present you the long awaited slideshow of Annemie & Sammy’s wedding day.
I could write a book about how fun their wedding day was & how amazing Annemie, Sammy, their friends & family are, but I’m going to save you all that & just let you enjoy the slideshow.
One of the more memorable weddings of 2008 was the one from Annemie & Sammy. I had the honour & privilege to shoot this wedding accompanied by Tom - mr Fotofolio - Musseeuw. He was curious about what happened on such a wedding day & wanted to experience one up close.
It became a fan-tastic day ! Sammy & Annemie are a dream to shoot, a true pleasure to spend time with, their family is super friendly & kinda funny (éh Erwin ). Add to that the energetic & creative presence of Tom and you just know this wedding scored a big fat 10 !
Below you can already see a (long) preview, de slideshow will be comming to a blog near you very soon.
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