Sea of Papyrus

Papyrus plants along te shore of Lake Naivasha at Elsamere.

On the hunt

Lioness in Nariobi National Park on the lookout. While we folllowed them the pride of five lions passed a hert of buffalo (to big and aggressive) and an ostrich (too fast) and we then saw them disappear into the bush.

Shooting a silhouette against the sun (?)

Allright, ok. Yes, indeed it is very difficult to see man-made stuff in space. Why? Because of the lack of 1: light emission or reflection, 2: contrast. Solution; use the sun as the backdrop and see the silhouette (the small dots on the left) of NASA space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope; full image here; another image from the 'The big picture' gallery.

Pictorial Silence - Chill kidogo

A great collection of images by M. Kenna which certainly will calm you down ;-) It's called 'A silent world'

Wedding sunset

Johan and Emma at Muthaiga (Golf) Club. Congratulations!

Sylvia and Kimani

 

Sylvia and Kimani, Congratulations with your wedding! The photo's I took from Sylvia and Kimani are shown on the right, if you happen to not know these great people.

Beach - her first tme ever

Sarah on the Mombasa beach, early morning, at Swahili House.

Erik and Jess

My first wedding I attended barefoot! Congratulations Erik and Jess! (images in right upper corner).

Eat your meat

 

I came across this 'scene' at Ole Polos Country Club outside of Nairobi, Kenya. Clearly, someone enjoyed eating meat from a piece of bone most don't even consider to eat from, and with plenty of salt. A description of the club can be found here.

We arrived around 10.30am and were offered some 'njema kuku' (good chicken). After one hour no food yet. I asked the waiter for an update and he answered; 'Did they tell you the chicken have not arrived yet?'.

Oceanic and David

 

David and the brides maids, Congratulations with your wedding Oceanic and David!

Slum mud wall

 

I visited the Kibera Slum with a film crew of SABC to interview Maureen, one of the Unsung Peace Heroes, at her home. I took a few shots and particularly liked this texture.

Transparent Screens

This type of shots (not photoshopped!) is called 'transparent screens'. Nothing to do & playing with your digital camera? Try it out. This shot is made by .:AR:. and can be found on Flick photo sharing. Check out the transparent screen Flickr pool (over 750 images). Someone commented on the above image; "Ooooooh, das is cool! wie hast du das gemacht??" :-)

Kilimanjaro - good to see you again

Not less than 5,891.8 metres above sealevel. A majestic volcanic mountain. It was great to see it again from Ol Tukai lodge in Amboseli National Park.

Valentine wedding party shots

Shots from a wedding last Saturday, Valentine's Day.. Location: Windsor Golf Resort, Nairobi

Women of Kibera Slum

An amazing art project in Nairobi; Women from Kibera photographed by 'JR' and exhibited in the slum and on train rooftops. More here.
Now, don't people say over 1 million people live in the largest slum in the world. Who did the count, when, how? A researcher claims the number to be closer to 250,000; read more. Some profit from infating poverty.
A friend said; "What do we mean by 'third world'? Last time I checked there was only one world."

'100 metres of existence'

A photo project by Simon Hoegsberg; a 100m long image with 178 people shot from one position in a railway station in Berlin. Only a couple of people noticed him taking the images. An interview with Simon here (and find out why he named the piece 'we are all gonna die'..)

Dakar 2009

Another great collection on 'The big picture'. This image is taken by Gabriel Bouys. Dakar 2009. Alan Taylor, the creator of Boston Globe, interviewed here.

Obama inauguration in images

Image by Tony Karumba. Again fabulous shots on Boston.Com. This time the inauguration of. See all images here.

Best wishes for 2009!

Best wishes for 2009! (Some) fireworks in The Netherlands; the Dutch spend eur60 million on fireworks in 2008. Good or bad news?

The year 2008 in photographs - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Image by Tony Karumba. Kenyan athletes train at Eldoret's Chepkoilel stadium on May 30, 2008 in preparation for the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games 2008. Part of 'The year 2008 in photographs - The big picture' click here for Part 2 and Part 3 as well.

Shooting

Geothermal power

Photoshoot at Ol Karia geo thermal power plant in Naivasha, Kenya

Obama!

Kenya says: "where Obama comes from, there are more like Obama" :-) Holland says: "88% of us support Obama". Yes we can...

Ties and jackets

Any photo can become a piece of art using image editing software.. this is filter>distort>polar coordinates of a shot of jackets and ties I took in Westgate Shopping Mall.

High speed

An image by Martin Waugh; see more on Liquidsculpture and other fast shots of e.g. exploding lightbulbs and strawberries here.

New born impala

Shot this image lying on the grass at Crescent Island, Naivasha, Kenya. She was 1 day old.

Silhouette Experiment

Fever trees and a giraffe @ Crescent Island, Lake Naivasha, Kenya. How? Open the blue channel of the photo in photoshop, play with the levels and save...

Sarah in Mosaic

Sarah, my daughter in a mosaic... i have a total of 3000 photos with Sarah in it and she is only 7 months old.. So making a mosaic makes sense, does it not?. The software used is Mosaic Creator.

Firefox Wallpapers

Fan of Firefox like me? Find your favorite wallpaper here.

Northern Kenya

On safari to Samburu.. the pictures tell the story.

Wajibu Magazine

Three shots were used in Wajibu Magazine - A journal of Social and Religious Concern, Kenya. Here I picked one. Let's talk more, Dipesh ;-) I buy the magazine at BookStop, Yaya centre, Nariobi.

Kisumu Guesthouse

I received a very warm welcome in the Velvet Bricks guesthouse in Kisumu, Kenya. I took some photo's for their website. A collage like this is a 1-minute trick now with Picasa3beta.

Photoshop disasters

Photoshop is a great piece of software. I learned to use it just recently. If you don't respect some simple rules things can go terrible wrong. Check out PhotoshopDisasters.blogspot.com

WAPI - Words and Pictures

The WAPI event organised by the British Council. Express yourself!

'Van Nistelrooy' at Nairobi dumpsite

Lameck Nyagudi shot this image and won a prize with ShootNations.org. More of this series can be found on the AfricaNews website. Lameck's weblog is here. Keep an eye on Lameck, he is taking his new profession very seriously!

Days with his Father

Philip Toledano (somebody met him?) developed Days with my Father. The images and colours used/emphasized are touching but in combination with a few words of the lack of words with some images is moving. The site is in flash so just move your mouse down the screen to navigate.

Exhibition

My Giraffe on the Maasai Mara photo exhibited during the Light & Shade Photo Exhibition at Alliance Francaise in Nairobi.

LEAD us Wazimba

My favorite shot of a photo shoot I did at Stanley Hotel, Nairobi for/with Kenya Wazimba Youth Foundation. Well designed, Tonee!

AS3 Generated Images

Mark Knol (anybody met him?) generated these images using flash and action script. Brilliant! Do you want to generate one online from a photo yourself? Have a go.

Infosthetics

In June I came across this site where ideas, tools and concepts on visualisation of data are collected. Really a great source of inspiration and kept up-to-date very well. The site is called Infosthetics 'Form Follows Data'. The image here is from a tool called Wordle. You can create your own Wordle, e.g. enter the url of your blog like I did here.

StumbleUpon

A webtool to 'stumble' from site to site which can be integrated in your browser. I choose photography (..) and found high rates sites with unique and highly creative images. The thumbnails here are some of the photo's and webpages I indicated as 'I like'. Sign up and surf highly rated websites only! Start Stumbling.

Cafe Des Arts

A pro bono shoot of a new restaurant Cafe Des Arts in Gigiri, Nairobi together with John and Sara Roberts of Visergy, integrated communications agency, Nairobi, Kenya.

Bye bye

Bye bye, says the lizard. Our cat was not very friendly with it..

Photoshop Creative

A great magazine full of tips. I especially like to tutorials showing the unlimited ways to used the huge amount of options/filters/blendings. The magazine is online here.

Blue Lagoon

Is blue the most beautiful color there is? I sure like it. Here the a look into a bucket with antiseptic and 'tools' at Nairobi hospital a few days after Sarah was born.

Nature & Wildlife

Photo's taken in Nairobi National Park. In the lower photo; these called terrapins.

ZusjeZusje

Zusje is Dutch and means Sister. Zusjezusje.nl is a photo blog with fascinating images of the two sisters and home and around the house. A great site to find inspiration for new compositions at home. Note, that the photographer does tweak the images with photoshop and such, but in a nice subtle way. He has a very good eye for lighting to my opinion. Browse zusjezusje.nl

Nature Abstract

Some examples of 15 images I changed the color scheme for and sold to an artist friend in Nariobi. The photo's are taken in Kenya, Botswana and Zambia.

Wildlife Magazine

This article on the Udzungwa Mountains in Southern Tanzania is written by Kim and the images are taken by me, published in Wildlife Magazine (the Dutch publication)

Nominated Shot

When you get up early and wander the streets, there might be no breeze, the light is crisp and all you need to do is make the composition. This shot was nominated with the last 30 in the Dutch National Geographic Photography Contest in 2007. The building is Winkel van Sinkel on the Oude Gracht in Utrecht. The image was exhibited in Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam.

Check these images if you're looking for tricks and inspiration on upside-down phography.

NG's Photo of the Day

National Geographic has a great website Photo of the Day. This image is my favorite. Of course, it is a real photo, no digital tricks. Can you work out what you are seeing? Let me know.. or click here.

Dream Catching

Do you have a dream that keeps coming back? Monique Hebly specialised in visualising that at Fotodreams. Amazing..

Pregnant

A compilation of two photo'; a scan of Sarah, then her name was minimooi, and a silhouette of Kim.

South Africa - Botswana - Namibia - Zambia - Malawi - Tanzania - Kenya

Nine months on the road through seven countries in 2005 and 2006. If you are into Google Earth, check out the GPS locations of where we spend the nights in our rooftop tent. Or go to our Dutch weblog with plenty of Africa pics, Kim wrote the dairy and wrote daily!

Farmers Golf

Farmers / rural / country golf game during an outing with colleagues in 2006.

Run!

Musea are great for inspiration and.. photo's. This shot was taken at Naturalis, Leiden, Netherlands.

Corporate Exhibition

I exhibited 10 wildlife shots at my previous employer.

Wedding under the Kili

Is it okay to be proud? Yes, I Guess. Well, I am proud of my wife, proud of fulfilling our dream of getting married under at the foothills of the Kilimanjaro and proud of this photo :-) thanks to photographer Andrew Nightingale.

Michael Poliza

Michael Poliza went on an 8-week helicopter expedition across Africa. He captured the beauty of the African continent through unique birds-eye-view images. His Heli-Africa 2006 photo set on Flickr / website / short video on Namibia (choose downloads on the website). I am also impressed by his marketing strategy; these photo's are for sale all over the world.

Impala

Impala in the rain in Chobe National Park, Botswana.

Namibia panorama

Namibia, bring your car and some water and.. enjoy the cruisin'
[Palmwag on Google Maps]

Africa Rock

Africa Rock.... A shot of a piece of rock the hiking guide pointing out to me when on safari in Northern Botswana. Rehaan helped me to make the 'colours pop'.

Dirt Cruisin

4x4, 4WD, four wheels, and any one of them is fascinating to me. Especially if it's BF Goodrich tyres; the best (tube-less) tyres around if you ask me.

Lucky Rhino

Rhino 'Lucky' in Edeni Private Game Reverse in South Africa.

Botswana

Looking for a place with beautiful nature, safe and no people? Try Botswana, Kalahari Desert. I took this photo in Khutse Game Reserve [here in Google Maps]

Night Drive

Looking for game at night is adventure. Especially if you are seated on the carboot of the 4x4 and an elephant (or a herd of elephants) could be waiting for your flash light around the corner.. I took these shots in South Africa during a field guide course.

Weaver

Weaving away in South Africa

The Art of Camouflage

The brand name of a shop in Holland selling shirts and ties - boys wearing 'camouflage' to look like men.. The products are high quality and new shops are opened across the country. In 2005 the owner asked me to shoot 'glossy' images for branding, here some examples. Visit the shop.

Words and Pictures

I compiled a 1-copy book with quotes and images (photo's I took). I printed it for my birthday ;-). The book is available on a Picasa Webalbum, note that some quotes are in Dutch, sorry..

Shop Photography

I shot a series of photo's in a biological products shop in Utrecht, Rio de Bio. Here a few examples.

kidogo kidogo

April 30th - Queens Day in Netherlands; anyone crazy enough can sell.. whatever. I tried my luck as you can see ;-) Kidogo means little in Swahili meaning 'small prices' here.

Prize Winning Shot

The pigeon on the tower of the Dom Church in Utrecht. My entry into a small photo competition in Utrecht resulted in the first price and an article in the local paper.

Black spagetti

Bon Appetit. Wonder what you are looking at..? Black spagetti, ready to be served.

Smokey

Tip; don't just shoot the food and the people when you have a bbq.