food images : fruit salad

Created a series of "fruit salad" images I'm pretty happy with (c more on Flickr):

marriage Joke en Axel

I photographed the marriage of Joke and Axel on friday June 19th. You can see some images on my website by clicking on the image below: Also I am very happy to say I am now a graduated art photographer. The opening of the exhibition on saturday was a big succes with a lot of visitors.

sneak preview

A little peak at my images, exhibited in the Jan Colle art galery. Of course the real thing looks even better ;-)

SOFAM workshop

I attended a SOFAM (deales with copyright issues) workshop at the MSK in Ghent yesterday. Some guestspeakers -amongst them Carl Dekeyzer- came to talk about Photography and internet. One of the conclusions was that it's clear that there's an evolution towards consumers not willing to pay for photographs they find on the internet anymore. And it's up to us to find new ways of finding a reason for existance as a photographer. Oh, today's jury time for my "Art Photography" class. I will post some images from the exhibition at galerij Colle in the coming days.

new toys

Just invested in a Nikon 70-200 2,8 lens and I can't wait to use it to make some cool portraits. Axel and Joke who get married on friday will probably be my frst victimes;-) Also bought a Lowepro "commercial AW" bag. So I can finally get all my gear comfortably in one bag. Saves me some time and less chance to forget stuff...

new images from shrimp plate

Hi y' all. I had a great time yesterday styling and shooting a shrimp appetizer. Clik on the image to see the series.

New method of pricing for marriages

I had some time the previous days to review my pricing and decided to simplify the pricing for marriages. I added an extra link on the homepage of my website. There are now 3 categories from "basic" to "elaborate" to "All in". This is what I believe to be a very clear and transparant price setting. Click on the image for details on prices.

On monday I went to an event from the "National Union of Belgian Photographers" at Poeke Castle. At this event you could meet several suppliers (Nikon, Adobe, Epson, ...) and there where several workshops. I followed two interesting workshops : Norbert Maes showed us his way of shooting portraits, and Stefan Matthijssens had brought a just married couple to teach us something about shooting a marriage. Thanks again to both, I thought it was very interesting. Here's an image of the participants at Poeke castle:

work in progress

Wow, just finished the story and extra info for my "Seafood in Schotland" article. So, with everything ready, it's now time to find some interested magazines.

Some very interesting exhibitions coming up (click on images for info):

StephanVanfleteren in Botanique

And Carl De keyzer in SMAK