Feb

06

2016

ICY ICELAND

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ICY ICELAND – WEEK 1

A PHOTO TOUR

with Hougaard Malan & Isak Pretorius

There are no direct flights to Reykjavik for us in winter, because all the “normal” people go there in summer. We leave on January 29th, the sun will rise at around 10:00 and set at 17:00 and won’t get higher than 10 degrees above the horizon. The bad thing is we can’t pronounce any of the names of the places we are going to see, and we’ll barely have 9 hrs of light per day. The good thing is we can do sunrise shots and sleep late.

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And this is what we want to see

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Jan

16

2016

My TOP 10 for 2015

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My personal favourites

As always it is hard to pick 10 when you have so many to choose from. These are my personal favourites for 2015.

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Because I’m Dutch, and because I love tulips. From the first day I can buy them, even if it is still winter, I feel spring is coming. The Keukenhof  near Amsterdam is a sensational place to photograph these beautiful flowers, they have hundreds of variaties there. I love the colour and the spiky edge on this one.

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Dec

31

2015

Our year in photos

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We were busy this year, travelled a lot, to sensational new places, found many new friends, and enjoyed being with the old friends.

January

Already in January we had a surprise visit from our friends from the Antarctica trip 2013: Frank & Silke. We spent a fun weekend, unfortunately no skiing because of too little snow and bad weather, but fun anyway.

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Remembering the good old times

February

We entered the Mala Mala photo  competition, hoping to win and get 2 free nights. Somehow my pics got lost, Jürg made it to the finals with his wild dog racing in the river. To see the other finalists check out the link:

http://blog.malamala.com/index.php/2015/03/guest-winner/

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March

Spring got there and the travel season started.

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Nov

01

2015

INDIAN CANYONS PHOTO TOUR -2

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PART 2 of the INDIAN CANYONS PHOTO TOUR with Christian Heeb

So we saw the Grand Canyon, did a photo shoot with a native Indian model, we photographed Antilope Canyon, Horseshoe Bend, Rimrock Hoodoos, Monument Valley and Canyonlands N.P, and that was only the first week. We were afraid it couldn’t get better…. but it did !

DAY 7: around Moab

It is rather hard getting up at 05:15 but we don’t want to be sissies, besides, I saw a photo of the Dead Horse Outlook and it looked real good. Christian drove much too fast so we get there in the pitch dark and decide to do some stars and light up a little tree in the foreground. The whole thing proceded a little messy, everybody pressed their shutter at a different time, and so one gets a lot of light, others little, it’s just practise ! As we get too much light for the stars to really show we proceed to the canyons rim. This is probably the best outlook I’ve seen so far, this is really special, I just love the scenery here.

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Dead Horse Overlook, not a horse in sight…

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Oct

25

2015

INDIAN CANYONS PHOTO TOUR-1

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We met in a bar. In the gigantic casino in the lobby of the Las Vegas hotel. All around us poker, blackjack, roulette, machines jingling, bells ringing, the noise level was deafening, people all around us. We are 8, the boss is the guy with the hat, his wife is the manager, maybe she’s the real boss ? The other 6 that’s us: two German and four Swiss amateurs, and we are ready to learn from him…. how to shoot…

Shoot a really good photo ! Let’s get on the road and start the :

INDIAN CANYONS PHOTO TOUR

with Christian Heeb

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