Cleaning out the basement I found some Polaroids I made in China back in the days. Well, not really, but that was the idea for a photo series.

The photos were made during two trips I made to China in 2005 en 2009. Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tongli, Ping An and Yangzhou provided the scenery.

To further explore HDR photography I combined it with some urban exploring in a abandoned coal mine, washing plant and coking plant. This massive complex is called Zollverein located in Essen Germany. Well in fact it’s not really abandoned since it is now home of the Ruhr Museum.

The museum is located in the former washing plant, with many of the machinery still in place. The huge coking plant ceased operation in 1993 and didn’t change since. Nature is slowly retaking the plant, a great photo opportunity!

Staircase in Kohlenwäsche designed by Rem Koolhaas

Schacht 1/2/8

railroad switch

Coal train in front of cooling tower

Kokerei

Druckmaschine

Druckmaschine

Löschwagen

Entstaubung Koksausstoß

Schacht XII

Schacht 1/2/8

In an earlier post I reported about the invisible man Liu Bolin. He’s the master in camouflage photography.

Not everyone believes it, but the photographs are real, so no Photoshop filter! Liu is HANDPAINTED in al photo’s.

And what a treed, here is a new serie.
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Just returned from a 2,5 week trip through the US for AviaMagazine. Amongst the almost 3000 photo’s I did some experimenting with high dynamic range photography (HDR). When conditions are good (which means some great cloud base for instance) results can be stunning.

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"Liberté"

"Office Space"

"Brooklyn Bridge"

"Off the wall"

"York Street"

"Midtown"

"DKNY"

"The Roman"

"Ready, Go"

"Protection"

"AVL"

"Stairs"

"Prease"

"Middle Ages?"

"Tracks to nowhere"

"The Koons Dog"

"Chaos"

Last year I visited New York and compiled a small exposition on this wonderful city. A great place for all you photographers!

Skylark Creative is divided in several brands, one of them being photography. Skylark Photography specializes in Aircraft, wildlife and nature photography. To do this I travel the World and some samples of these trips and my work are now presented in the new Skylark Photography website.

Check it out via http://www.skylark-creative.com/photography.

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