About me – Contact

How can people contact you?

By sending an email to dutchaperture ‘at’ gmail.com

What kind of subjects do you photograph?

I am an all-round photographer and shoot almost everything. From portraits to landscapes, and from corporate events to marriages.

What is your drive for photography?

I feel blessed to be a child of God and to be able to enjoy His creation. I like to capture the greatness of His creation and what we humans do with and to it, in all its diversity. Whether it is people, an event, nature or art.

Which criteria do you use to decide to publish your work or not?

From Steve Jobs I adopted two mottos:  “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish” and “Real artists ship”.

“Stay Hungry, Stay foolish”, because for me producing art is about development. It is about ascending the spiral of continuous experimenting and learning in pursuit of an artistic ideal which I might never reach, but occasionally see a glimpse of…

“Real artists ship” is about walking the fine line between being critical enough of one’s own work not to publish or exhibit “everything” on the one hand, and not becoming too critical and therefore not showing anything. I strongly believe that shipping helps to develop one’s artistic skills because it forces to see art through the eyes of the general public. It also forces artists to “finish” their work because observers cannot picture the intend of the artist in their heads, and fill in the gap between the work as it is and the work the artist intended to make.

What is your view on equipment?

I am certainly not one of those photographers who say their equipment does not matter, and pretend they are not interested in the topic. I absolutely love to read, try-out and talk about gear! For instance, every evening I quickly glance at the DPreview website.

The reason is a very simple one: equipment does make a huge difference which pictures you can take under which circumstances. I loved my Nikon D70S, but am able to take pictures now with my Nikon D750 in low-light circumstances that would not have been possible with my D70S. This is also the reason why I mention the equipment that I use in most of my posts.

By the way: one of my favorite books is “At work” from Annie Leibovitz. In this book she explains which equipment she used for which shots and why.

Which camera’s do you currently use?

Too many to mention!

  • Nikon Z6 ii (in combination with the Nikon 24-200 mm – my go-to camera for events)
  • Nikon D750 (in combination with the Tamron 24-70 mm 2.8 G2 lens)
  • Olympus OMD-EM10 II (The camera ‘I have always with me’ – with the ‘plastic- fantastic’ Olympus 14-42 and Olympus 17 mm 1.8 lenses)
  • Olympus OMD- EM5 ii (In combination with the Olympus 14-150 mm lens this is my go-to camera-lens combination for demanding hikes)
  • Olympus OMD- EM1 ii (In combination with the Olympus 12-40 mm lens this is my go-to camera lens combination for hikes where videography is important)
  • Panasonic Lumix S5 (for video-centric projects)
  • Fujifilm X-T2 (for no other reason, than that I love the colour science and experience)

Who is your favorite photographer?

There are a number of photographers whose work I admire: Annie Leibovitch, Anton Corbijn, Peter Lindbergh, Richard Avedon, Robin du Puy, Ansel Adams, David Bailey and many, many others.

My two absolute favorites are Annie Leibovitch and Anton Corbijn though. Annie Leibovitch because she opened my eyes for the power of photography with the pictures she took for American Express when I was 15 years old; Anton Corbijn because being a calvinist myself, I recognize one when I see one!