December 31, 2019

Het is dan zover ...het eerste deel van de " 10 bijzonderste historische bibliotheken in Nederland " is nu te koop. Het eerste gaat over de eerste 5 bibliotheken. Librije Zutphen-Huis van Gijn-Thysiana-Teylers en Ets Haim.

Finally... the first part of the "10 most extraordinary historical libraries in the Netherlands" is now for sale. The first is about the first 5 libraries. Librije Zutphen-House of Gijn-Thysiana-Teylers and Ets Haim.

December 21, 2019

Een mooi artikel geschreven over het bibliotheken project in Nederland door het vakblad IP - vakblad voor informatieprofessionals.

A nice article written about the libraries project in the Netherlands by the trade journal IP - trade journal for information professionals.

March 10, 2020

Op 11 maart zal ik de Gladstone bibliotheek gaan fotograferen in Hawarden ( Wales ).

On March 11 I will be photographing the Gladstone library in Hawarden (Wales).

March 12, 2020

Op 13 maart zal ik de Chetham's bibliotheek gaan fotograferen in Manchester.

On March 13 I will be photographing the Chetham's library in Manchester.

November 16, 2019

Een fotoshoot gedaan met de groep " Dutch Pirates " in de ierse pub Finnegans in Apeldoorn.

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A photo shoot done with the group "Dutch Pirates" in the Irish pub Finnegans in Apeldoorn.

December 13, 2019

Dit jaar weer present op het Dickens festijn in Deventer, na contact met de grondlegger van dit event zijn er afspraken gemaakt betreffende een nieuwe folder en een evt fotoboek voor het 30 jarig bestaan in 2020.

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This year again present at the Dickens feast in Deventer, after contact with the founder of this event, agreements have been made regarding a new brochure and possibly a photo album for the 30th anniversary in 2020.

March 30, 2020

Deze week toestemming gekregen om een fotoshoot te doen in de Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience te Antwerpen.

De oorsprong van de Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, die tot in 2008 gewoon Stadsbibliotheek heette, gaat terug tot 1481. De collectie telt meer dan 1 miljoen volumes. De bijzonderste verzamelgebieden zijn Nederlandse letterkunde, geschiedenis van de Nederlanden, oude drukken (boeken gedrukt vóór 1830), Vlaamse volkscultuur, kunst in de Nederlanden en Antverpiensia.

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This week received permission to do a photo shoot in the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library in Antwerp.
The origins of the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library, which until just 2008 was called Stadsbibliotheek, go back to 1481. The collection has more than 1 million volumes. The most special collection areas are Dutch literature, history of the Netherlands, old prints (books printed before 1830), Flemish folk culture, art in the Netherlands and Antverpiensia.

September 12, 2019

We are delighted that from now on work can be seen at Warnars and Warnars art dealer in Naarden. Works can be purchased there if necessary.

September 20, 2019

On September 21, 2019 to Elfia Arcen to take pictures of this fantasy event.
A world of Fables & Fairytales opens up in front of your eyes when you cross the border between fantasy and reality. Create your own story in the lovely September sun during Elfia Arcen on 21 & 22 September 2019.

August 02, 2019

Shooting at castlefest.
Imagine yourself in a completely different world at Castlefest, the Fantasy festival of the Netherlands. A fest for young and old, where, as soon as you enter the gates, you find yourself in the Other World. Castlefest is a total experience with lots of music, fantasy writers, themed catering, medieval crafts and a large market which offers everything a fantasy fan is looking for.

July 10, 2019

Fantastic day at Averbode Abbey in Belgium. A warm welcome to the abbey to do a nice photo shoot there. Thanks to the Norbertines for the warm welcome and the possibility to look behind the scenes and take pictures.

July 24, 2019

Permission was granted to photograph the Marsh's library in Dublin.

July 24, 2019

Got permission to photograph the chetmans library in Manchester!

July 24, 2019

Permission to photograph the New Edinburgh library date will be determined

July 24, 2019

Permission to photograph the Signet library in Edinburgh will be determined later

March 10, 2020

The final date has been set { 11-03-2020 } for a photo shoot in the library of Gladstone in Wales.

May 01, 2019

Super nice news from Belgium !! In the background, Abbey Rolduc from Kerkrade has been working since January to ask permission for a photo shoot that I want to do in an Abbey located in Belgium (Averbode). After months of waiting, the redeeming message has finally arrived today ... I can do the photo shoot on the condition of the Averbode abbey in Belgium that this is done under the guidance of Catharina Scholtens of Rolduc abbey from Kerkrade. Catharina Scholtens has done this all in the background !!

May 01, 2019

Today I was told that I can photograph the signet library in Edinburgh. Date is still to be determined.

March 31, 2019

The approximately 3500 books are housed in an attractive room facing south - a favorite room of the residents of the time. In the time of Count van Aldenburg Bentinck the room was used as a sitting room. You can imagine how he was reading in a large armchair by the fireplace. On a table lies an old States Bible in calfskin leather binding, with handwritten notes of births and deaths. The embroidered armchairs date from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The wallpaper - small sheets of printed paper - was made in France around 1835.

April 12, 2019

Elfia can be described as an event, a costume event, with amazing and beautiful costumes; with lively performances, sensational shows and market stalls where you can buy things you didn't know existed about.

Elfia takes place in reality; every year; twice; in April and September on beautiful castle grounds. You can travel to Elfia in your normal car or by train, but as soon as you enter through the castle gates, as soon as you step across the line that we call the magical border, you enter a magical world. A dream world where everyone is connected and where everyone respects each other.

You are welcome in this world and you will feel at home; and we call you ... an Elfian.

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April 15, 2019

On Tuesday 16 April 2019 I will be driving to Amsterdam to photograph the oldest driving school in the Netherlands ...... This riding school will be completely renovated for which 2 years have been allocated. After the renovation there is a second photo shoot and an exhibition in his riding school.

April 12, 2019

Elfia can be described as an event, a costume event, with astonishing and dazzling creations; with vivacious music performances, sensational shows and market stalls where you can buy items of which you didn’t even realize they existed.

Elfia takes place in reality; every year; twice; in April and in September at beautiful castle grounds. You can drive an ordinary car or take a train to get to Elfia, but once you enter through the castle gates, once you cross that line that we call the magical border, you will enter an enchanting world. A dream world where everybody is connected, where everybody respects each other.

You will be welcome in this world; you will feel at home immediately; and we will call you… an Elfian.

March 12, 2019

On Wednesday afternoon, March 13, 2019, I have an interview with newspaper The Stentor. This interview will be about the style of photography and the libraries project.

March 06, 2019

On Thursday afternoon, March 7, 2019, I will visit Kobald pianos.
In 1985, Theo Kobald returned from Canada, following a carpentry course in Vancouver. As "Gebroeders Kobald", brother Paul and Theo started a piano restoration company a year later. The many instruments from all sorts of time periods that we were confronted with aroused my interest in the sound and construction of historical instruments, so I decided to build fortepianos in addition to restoring pianos and grand pianos.

We delivered the first fortepiano to the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In the meantime, various musicians from home and abroad play the instruments of my hand, and there are fortepianos in the Netherlands, Germany, and France among others. In 2007, I and my brother started my own businesses with separate specializations, even though we are still working together on some major projects

March 18, 2019

In Kasteel Amerongen I have permission to photograph the library, the 8th of 10 in this project.
The Amerongen Castle library is one of the few preserved noble libraries from the 18th century. Almost all the books are from the original inhabitants of the castle. An important characteristic of a noble library is that it includes books that were considered important in time to participate in court life, and books that are important for the management of the estate. The Huys library contains a large number of important works that require treatment. Examples include a state Bible with calfskin leather binding (1650), in which the manuscripts of members of the Van Reede family are found, a two-part land atlas by the famous Dutch cartographer Johannes van Keulen (1724) and The Gardeners Dictionary (1759), written by the English botanist Philip Miller.

With the help of 17 volunteers from the castle, RNA cleaned the books, provided support materials where necessary and secured parts to avoid the risk of loss.
65 books have been selected from the collection that require a major restoration that have not been repaired on location but in the studio. Funds have been sought and found for this by the Circle of Friends of the castle!

February 16, 2019

On February 17, 2019, I am in the broadcast of RTV Apeldoorn to talk for an hour about my photo project of the Libraries and its style. The broadcast "Apeldoorn Old en Now" can be heard from 11-12.

January 18, 2019

In an authentic building in Elburg is a barber shop where I can do a shoot. The barber will be dressed in authentic clothing.

January 13, 2019

On the worldwide photographers platform GuruShots I became 1st of the more than 1700 photographers and photos with the challenge "Looking Down". The 2nd place was for Italy and the 3rd place for Nepal.

Photo was taken in December during the Dickens festival 2018.

January 02, 2019

A nice photo shoot done in the library of abbey Rolduc in Kerkrade. Reception and guidance was very well arranged. A reason to go back again for an overnight stay. The impressive abbey complex was founded in 1104 by Ailbertus van Antoing. Culture, science and religion have gone hand in hand since the twelfth century. Witnesses of this can now be found in the beautiful abbey church, the crypt and the 18-century Rococo library. The unique geographical location of Rolduc Abbey can be found at the intersection of countries and cultures, where the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium meet in one common region, the Meuse-Rhine Euregion. The current collection of the library of Abbey Rolduc started around 1757. Since the people of Liege moved all books to Sint Truiden (B) in 1843, the library had to be reconstructed. In the mid-20th century, books from the Rolduc abbey returned to the Rococo library from neighboring presbyteries and archives. This collection consists of more than 7000 titles including philosophy, mathematics, world history, mythology, bible sciences, church literature, Dutch, English, Greek and French literature and linguistics, the oldest of which is from the 16 th century.

December 14, 2018

On Saturday 15 December 2018 to Deventer for the Dickens festival.
The 19th century English city of Charles Dickens revives in full glory in the historic Bergkwartier of Deventer. On Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 December, more than 950 characters from the famous books of this English writer come to life: from Scrooge to Oliver Twist, from Mr. Pickwick to Christmas Carol Singers, from orphans to office clerks and classy people.

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December 08, 2018

On Sunday, December 9, 2018, I am going to photograph the Dickens festival in Velp.
On December 9, 2018, the center of Velp will turn into an authentic and nostalgic village market, full of delicacies and special products. Artisans from the time of Charles Dickens take you back in time.

November 30, 2018

On Saturday 1 December I will go to Elburg with 3 other photographers to return there for a 2nd shoot. A warm welcome and at 9:30 am the coffee is ready and the fire is on. I have previously photographed this blacksmith and it is included in the National Geographic Netherlands 2019 tear-off calendar.

November 23, 2018

Imagine yourself in a completely different world at the Castlefest Winter Edition, a Fantasy festival in wintry ambiance. A fest for young and old, where, as soon as you enter the gates, you find yourself in the Other World. The Castlefest Winter Edition is a total experience with music, fantasy writers, themed catering, bonfires, medieval crafts, coziness and a market which offers everything a fantasy fan is looking for.

Bands are performing at the festival stages, from Pagan Folk to World Music, from Medieval Rock to Indie. In short, for each music lover his own!

The Castlefest Winter Edition characterises itself by a cozy and unique ambiance. Shows in a heated tent, many bonfires and hot drinks are making it into a pleasant winter festival for the Fantasy lover. It creates a feeling where you find yourself in a completely different world.

November 05, 2018

Today I received a message from Willemijn van Hees, Main Contact Point for Marketing Cooperating Samenwerkende Kastelen Utrecht, to do a photo shoot in the library. This will take place in the month of December.

November 05, 2018

Today I received a message from Veronique Eggen, Sales, Marketing & Communication from Rolduc Abbey to photograph the library in Rolduc Abbey in Kerkrade.
Shoot will take place on January 3, 2019.

October 03, 2018

A worldwide photographers forum "GuruShots" where photographers from all over the world participate in challenges on various items. In the challenge "Craftsmanship" finished 2nd in the overall ranking and with 1 of the 4 participating photos a 1st place in the category "Top photo". What a great result with 5000 participants !! and more than 20,000 photos !!

August 10, 2018

From 9 to 12 August, Beekbergen was all about international driving. Two and four-in-hand drivers from around the world competed for prizes on the Riant Equestrian Center grounds. In addition, the Dutch four-in-hand championship was held.

July 17, 2018

During the Dutch Four-in-Hand Driving Championship in Beekbergen I was asked to capture the impression of the atmosphere on the sensitive plate. I will walk around and photograph there for 2 days, Saturday 11 August and Sunday 12 August. Award ceremony CAI four-in-hand by the mayor & honoring Dutch champion.

July 03, 2018

Today I received the pages of the printer with the photos of the oldest working paper factory in the Netherlands "De Middelste Molen". The book is called "The large Veluwe holiday book".

June 07, 2018

Had the 7th library in the series of 10 in the Artis library in Amsterdam. In 1838 the zoological society Natura Artis Magistra was founded by a number of Amsterdam notables, including bookseller and bird lover Gerardus Frederik Westerman (1807-1890). The aim was "to promote the knowledge of natural history". To this end, not only the well-known Artis zoo was established, but also a zoological museum and a library were founded. The society immediately received valuable gifts for the library (ao from Westerman itself) and also purchased many books and magazines. In 1881, when a catalog was compiled by librarian Gilles Janse, the collection consisted of 4381 titles. Today, the collection has more than 16,000 titles. From 1848 to 1995 the society published the journal Contributions to Zoology. All episodes are now still stored in the Artis Library.

June 08, 2018

A photo shoot done in batavia city. On the ship the Batavia with a group of 6 men had a nice photo day. The weather was good and the atmosphere was great. The photos are all edited in my style, very appropriate for this setting.

May 10, 2018

On Saturday, May 11, 2018 at 10:30 I drove to Duisburg to take pictures during the day and in the evening. A beautiful park and especially beautifully lit. The Duisburg-Nord Landschafstpark is not a normal park, because on its 180-hectare site, industrial culture is linked with nature and a fascinating light installation that makes the park shine in brightly colored light at night. The park was built on the site of the disused metalworking company Duisburg-Meiderich. Like many other places in the Ruhr metropolis, it thus forms an industrial stage: the old factory halls, blast furnaces and Gasometer were not simply demolished, but reused in a creative, convenient and, above all, aesthetic way.

May 01, 2018

I have been approached by paper factory "The middle mill" in Loenen for photos in a book. The photos that will be used were shot by me and edited in "my style". Wednesday 2 May 2018 I will visit for a meeting and possibly an exhibition in the new building. 5 photos will be used for "Het Groot Veluwe Doe Book.

June 07, 2018

Permission was granted to do a photo shoot at the Artis library in Amsterdam. The date is June 8, 2108. The Artis Library is a nineteenth-century gallery library located at Plantage Middenlaan 45 in Amsterdam. The name is used for both the building and the library collection that is placed therein. The Artis Library has been part of the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam since 2005, which is itself part of the Heritage division of the University Library.

April 20, 2018

Elfia can be described as an event, a costume event, with astonishing and dazzling creations; with vivacious music performances, sensational shows and market stalls where you can buy items of which you didn’t even realize they existed.

Elfia takes place in reality; every year; twice; in April and in September at beautiful castle grounds. You can drive an ordinary car or take a train to get to Elfia, but once you enter through the castle gates, once you cross that line that we call the magical border, you will enter an enchanting world. A dream world where everybody is connected, where everybody respects each other.

You will be welcome in this world; you will feel at home immediately; and we will call you… an Elfian.

March 02, 2018

After a photo shoot at the urbex location Hotel Dullemond just drove on to the Posbank. A beautiful foggy morning.

February 27, 2018

The 5th library in the project has been completed. Ets Haim Library - Livraria Montezinos, is the oldest Jewish library in the world, located in the outbuildings of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. This still functioning library is part of the seminar of the same name, founded in 1616 and has been located in the synagogue complex since 1675

March 09, 2018

A nice photo nomination for a National Geographic Netherlands calendar. The nominated photo is one from the "Old crafts and monumental buildings" project. This is the photo from De Hoefhamer Elburg museum smithy. Now we have to wait ..........

January 21, 2018

Received confirmation on Monday to do a photo shoot in Ets Haim, the oldest active Jewish library in the world. It was founded in 1616 as part of the Talmud Torah educational institute and has been at its current location since 1675 in the beautiful complex of the Portuguese-Israelite Synagogue in Amsterdam. The library, which consists of approximately 560 manuscripts and 30,000 printed works, has a large and rich collection in the field of 17th, 18th and 19th century Judaism and has been an essential part of cultural heritage for more than 400 years. heritage of Amsterdam.Ets

January 19, 2018

Made an appointment with the miller from "de Rat" to do a photo shoot. So I drove to Friesland early in the morning to do the shoot in IJlst with super people and a super welcome.
On the banks of the Geeuw, the age-old shipping connection between IJlst and Sneek, stands the unique wood sawmill "the Rat" that is still in full production. Trunks that lie in the water, the sound of the rotating blades, the ramming of the up and down saw windows, the smell of freshly sawn wood, here you can still experience the old wood sawing craft that has been performed daily in "The Rat" for more than 3 centuries.

January 10, 2018

An afternoon-evening shoot done in Deventer at "De Worp" which is partially under water. Where a campsite is, it is now completely submerged. This gives a nice effect of the lampposts that are now in the water.

January 12, 2018

On Saturday, January 13, it was time to leave for Germany for an urbex shoot in the "Kent school". This urbex was a paid urbex shoot so a legal access to the site where we were expected at 10 am and were allowed to roam until 2:30 pm in the 3 buildings on the complex.

After four years of construction, the St. Jozefsheim monastery was taken into use in 1913 by the brothers of Fransiscus. It consisted of a chapel, office, school and two other buildings. About 600 people lived in the monastery, most of whom were mentally and psychologically ill. Due to the rise and pressure of the Nazis, the brothers of Fransiscus left the monastery on 23 May 1937.

By a new law in 1939, which meant that every incapacitated newborn was to be registered, the monastery became a special children's home and was named "Kinderfachabteilung Waldniel". In reality, it became a center for those who were not welcome in Nazi Germany. When on 1 October 1939 Adolf Hitler gained full power over Germany, the home became a euthanasia center that was to lead to the final solution.
The first leading physician in the center was Georg Renno, but he was soon transferred to the Hartheim Institute. After the war, he was ultimately responsible for killing 28,000 people. His replacement in Hostert was Hermann Wesse.
Between 1939 and 1943, 512 people died in Hostert, including 128 children. At least 30 children are certain to have been killed in the euthanasia program through an overdose of luminal.

In 1952 the buildings were returned to the Fransiscus Order who sold it to the English army in 1955. Until 1963 the English used it as a military hospital. Then it was converted into a school called Kent School. In the end there were 1400 children in school, 270 at the boarding school, the rest was taken to school by bus. Every day 50 buses drove to the school and a special bus station was even built on site.
The school was closed in 1992, since then it is empty and it is for sale.

December 02, 2017

On December 3 the time had come, the opening of the exhibition about the old crafts and monumental buildings in and around Apeldoorn. A big turnout and a lot of positive reactions to "my style" the HDR-old style. For the first time an exhibition in this style so it was a bit of a wait and see what people thought of it. What was beautiful is that everyone experienced the atmosphere of back then, back in time and your delusions in that period. A very successful opening!

November 30, 2017

Following the style that I apply to my projects, I was approached by the Stedendriehoek for an interview. This took place at my home and there is a beautiful story written about the style and my other photo works.

November 12, 2017

On December 3 the photos of "the old crafts and monumental buildings in and around Apeldoorn" will be exhibited in studio 28. This exhibition can be seen until January 4.

November 12, 2017

I had a great visit at the Teylers museum where I was allowed to make a nice shoot. This library, located on the first floor and only to be seen with a tour, also houses the Boudewijn Buch cabinet.

During open monument day I drove to Marknesse with a friend in the very early morning to visit the watercourse forest. In the Waterloopbos you will find the scale models of some 30 large water works from all over the world. The Delta Works were designed here, but also the ports of Rotterdam, Lagos, IJmuiden, Istanbul and Bangkok. The Waterloopkundig Laboratorium conducted years of research in the Waterloopbos and imitated reality with water, weirs, dams and wave machines.

September 13, 2017

Message from Haarlem to be allowed to photograph the library in the Teylers museum as part of the project. Further communication will follow, among other things, about the relevant date of the shoot.

August 30, 2017

This is number 4 in the series of over 10 special libraries in the Netherlands, had a nice shoot and also photographed the rest of the rooms. Been a long but beautiful day in Dordrecht

August 24, 2017

Had a nice photo shoot in the national project about the "10 most special libraries in the Netherlands". This time, Leiden was the location and the Thysiana library. Thanks to professor P.G. Hoftijzer that made it possible to realize this shoot and was present during the shoot.

August 04, 2017

Been to Beekbergen at a beautiful horse event. Had a super day at the 2 and 4 span games.

June 22, 2017

Had a nice photo shoot at the Librije library in Enkhuizen

June 26, 2017

The mini exhibition of De Librije, one of the 3 existing chain libraries in the world, will start from 1 July 2017.
There will be 9 photos in "My style" or the "HDR Old style". this exhibition lasts until Sunday July 9, 2017.

May 08, 2017

In the worldwide competition of GuruShots (technology), the photo of De Ruitersmolen from Beekbergen is number 1 of the more than 3200 photos. I participate with 4 photos and am currently in 3rd place and there are 6 days left until closing.

May 09, 2017

The project "the 10 most special libraries in the Netherlands" was kicked off with a photo shoot in the chain library of Zutphen.

May 09, 2017

During the IJsselfestival in Zutphen, on 1 and 2 July, the works will be exhibited in De Librije / Walburgis church. Wednesday 10 May I have a conversation with Christa Scholten Meilink about the content of the exhibition.

May 09, 2017

On 19 May I will do the last photo shoot of this project (old crafts and monumental buildings in and around Apeldoorn). I will then visit Hans de Louter luthier in Apeldoorn. At the moment he is busy making a violin and I can capture this nicely during the photo session. Of course you can also admire and photograph various string instruments in his shop.