A few minutes ago I added two new albums to the gallery, both about the recent European University Championships Volleyball in Rijeka, Croatia.

First of all, the EUC is a sports tournament of course. The level may not be like the ‘regular’ European Championships, but don’t be mistaken! The sports level is still very high - at least from the semi-finals [Continue Reading…]

The European University Championships Volleyball 2007 are over. The winners are Gazi University from Turkey (men) and Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport and Tourism (women). The full ranking can be found here (PDF).

I hope to find some time this weekend to make a gallery with my best pictures of the entire event. Today I’m staying in [Continue Reading…]

So, we’re on the fifth day of the event and the ranking is taking shape now. Today the last matches of the first competition phase are being played, so there will be some fierce competition among the teams that still need to secure their place in the quarter finals.

Unfortunately I won’t be shooting a lot of those matches today, this [Continue Reading…]

Yesterday evening the tournament had it’s official opening ceremony, with the obligatory speeches (luckily all but one very short), some nice dance performances and of course the presentation of all the teams. After all the official stuff, we all had fun at the after-party.

Today the teams had their first matches. I went to shoot the men’s games today. Saw [Continue Reading…]

Back again! Just like last year, when the European University Championships (EUC) were in my hometown Eindhoven, I’m again going to take pictures at this years volleyball championships. They’re held in Rijeka, Croatia this time. Check this link for the website of the event.

Yesterday I took a flight from Amsterdam to Ljubljana, Slovenia, spending one day here before [Continue Reading…]

It was April 6th, 2007, 4.30 in the morning, when my alarm clock went of. Auch! x-( Not my time of day, unless I’m still awake. But, this day is special! I’m doing my second portrait shoot and I agreed with Lieke to drive to the beach to catch the sun set - providing beautiful light [Continue Reading…]

The second album added this evening! This time I’ve selected some shots from my very first portrait shoot to publish.

The shoot was on November 23rd of 2006, ‘only’ three months after we agreed to do a photo shoot some time. Daniëlle and I met at a Dance event in Eindhoven, where I had my [Continue Reading…]

I just added the second album, containing some pictures from the European University Championships a year ago.

In 2006, for the first time in history, no less that four championships were held in one city. Even at one and the same location: the Sports Centre of the Technical University of Eindhoven. Around 1100 of the best [Continue Reading…]

And there we go! I hereby declare this blog officially opened!

As a test-case I already added an album in the gallery. Now I’m looking for some category pics and I’ll add some more albums in the next few hours and days.

Since I bought my camera over a year ago, I’ve shot [Continue Reading…]