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I grew up in the area around maastricht in the south of the netherlands. there is lots that i could tell you about this city's very interesting history, but there are sites that are better at that: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht

hdr of 7 exposures processed with Photomatix and edited with Nik filters in Photoshop and Lightroom

Whooooooptiedoooo! Belated Happy new year all!
Travelling for work: Done
Travelling private: Done
Wintery-darn-it-is-dark-so-early-and-I-think-I-get-a-cold-depression: Done!

So here we are again after some down-time. Still uber-busy with all kinds of stuff here and there, but at least I feel a little bit organised again, and slowly start to get my photographers mind back again. Planning to do some evenening photoshoots in Berlin soon, so give me a shout if you want to come along!
But first a little story:

Pro-bluffing my way into a restricted area, sometimes size does matter:

Sometimes it helps to have a bit of a bigger DSLR camera. Strap a wide-angle lens on it and it looks even bigger. That’s what I did when I went to this hot air balloon festival back in autumn. The field of which the balloons took off was restricted to the pilots and some press-photographers. But when I saw that the security wasn’t actually checking for press-cards I took my chance and swung my camera onto my shoulder, walked up to the security man and said “can I pass onto the field? I need some better shots for my work (why should he know my “work” has nothing to do with press?)”, The guy had a look at my camera and opened the gate for me, and a few seconds later I found myself between a dozen hot air balloons that were being prepared for take off.
Lesson learnt, sometimes size does matter!

I will have to do the hdr-editing again, as I am not very satisfied with the result on this one (see "ghosting" next to balloon)

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Here’s something I found out: Having a new-born baby, some busy times in the office and having to travel for work seems to mess up my photography routine! However, I have had some time to take some autumn-shots with my D40 and Lensbaby, the combination I now always have in my day-to-day bag.

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See you soon!