Walking, swimming, sailing, flying.

Sail away..

Somebody ordered pirates?

Katwijk from the sea.

Sealife.

Breaking the waves.

Going up?

Idefix(ed..)

Orange tied guard.

Is this seriously part of the Hague's statue exhib

Blonde behind bars.

Get off my House..

Nosejob.

Nosejob.
Originally uploaded by BlacKie-Pix.

Preparing for verbal battle..

Preparing for verbal battle..
Originally uploaded by BlacKie-Pix.

Just a tree..

Just a tree..
Originally uploaded by BlacKie-Pix.

Mach stream.

Mach stream.
Originally uploaded by BlacKie-Pix.

EL CID (beer)crew. 

Something in my eye.. 

Smile..real or fake?

Smile..
Originally uploaded by BlacKie-Pix.

Babes on fire.

Babes on fire.
Originally uploaded by BlacKie-Pix.

Infra-red examination of drowned shoes. 

High and steep.

Wow.. steep it is.
Originally uploaded by BlacKie-Pix.

Bikes..

Bikes..
Originally uploaded by BlacKie-Pix.

Boardbabe!

Boardbabe!
Originally uploaded by BlacKie-Pix.

Jumping girls..

Jumping girls..
Originally uploaded by BlacKie-Pix.

Acrobacy in Leiden during EL CID..

Fencing girls..

Fencing girls..
Originally uploaded by BlacKie-Pix.

Two out of 16..  

Maria? Who's Maria? 


That reminds me of Monty Python's "Sit on my face and tell me that you love me"...

Postal costs..

How bizarre. What? Well, as a frequent Ebayer I'm always looking for nice new or second-hand photo-equipment for also nice prices. Preferably naturally from locations within the Netherlands and/or Europe while postal-prices are "Naturally" much cheaper than from elsewhere in the world. Well, I just found out that shipping a small package IN the Netherlands is MORE expensive than mailing it to anywhere in Europe.. in fact even the entire world!! How fucked up can that be?!

E.g. In Holland small packages up to weighing 500g cost €5,50 While 0-250g in Europe would cost you €3,25 (priority) and 250-500g cost €5,40 (priority)! And a package to the world of less than 250g cost you €5,40..

I guess I have to emigrate for receiving nicely priced items which are shipped from the Netherlands..

I must be going now.. 


Some mouse the cat dragged in..

Lifesize Kindergarten Airport Firebrigade Engine.. 

MooseStuck.. 

Waiting for the next (fish)market.. 

What are you looking at?! 

Flash statement..

Yesterday I read, on another blog, a rather interesting "statement" of an Amsterdam freelance photographer Thomas Schlijper: "Flashphotography is for Lunglers" (Loser and bungler makes Lungler)

(In Dutch it stated: Flitsen is voor Lutsers; Lutser = loser + prutser).

Interesting.. does this apply to every photographer using a flashlight or just to the ones which are flashing because they cannot find the off-button for the flash?

Infra-red.. touching something that cannot be seen.. 

Flickr..

As you've probably noticed I've also been posting pix on Flickr for some time. It looked great.. connecting to a rather new "beta"-photographic worldwide community. Hopefull of getting some proper feedback instead of the comments you usually see on most "open" photo-communities which are mainly about "How beautifull" and "How amazing" their (friends) pictures are. Offcourse it's nice to hear / read that the things you do are appreciated. But most of work of the "contacts" I'm following there aren't THAT great. It sometimes even looks as if their puking out their photographic works on the internet. Naturally that's their problem. And sometimes it can be quite fun watching a serie of someone else. But to comment all pix with such enthousiasm.. that's ill.

Perhaps I'm the one who's to blame, who's crazy, etc. but in point of view pictures have to make sense. Pictures have to mean something to someone, opens up someones "eyes",.. by creating large archives through which the visitor has to find it's way to just find that one picture they could like. Sorry, but that's not my way. Allthough I get quite often questions about "the rest". How hard I try they sometimes don't understand the meaning of "(Too) much is harmfull".

Another statement I like to make: A serious Photographer knows what to show and what not.
Neverthless there's also lots op photographic works there which are really worthwile looking at / for.. and inspirational.

Time flies when you're having fun.. 

Grey weather.. 

Faster than it's shadow..