I seek the thrill of improving my skills and experiences as well as the quality of my results and I enjoy to share the pleasure of looking at an image and especially at a sports person in full swing. I do not seek the sensation of a mishap  like a paddler swimming behind the boat or worse. Sure this is part of the story and sometimes one of these images may slip through my filters but generally I do not care for such images. I am not a news photographer or paparazzi and seek to get a laugh out of the mishap of others. I try to portrait the skill, the effort, the concentration, the passion and the motivation of people, and not only in sports. I use this website to share images which I create, because it is very frustrating for people out in the field seeing me with a high end camera creating pictures and not being able to share them. This is how it started and this is how I will keep it. There is a distinct difference in creating pictures or taking a snap of a situation.

Pursuing that special image, which is good enough to make me feel like opening a parcel at Christmas is my passion and along the way I simply make a few extras because it is very disappointing for competitors to see only a few. I stay for the last one coming along, so I did this time too, because I consider it a matter of compassion and respect. I try to create mages which are interesting and different  

Every time I come to an event again I try to improve on the previous results. The first time is always just learning and under-standing what a specific sport is all about.

Last year I have tried to get sequences through the rapids from each competitor and I ended up with more than 8000 images. Processing these images is not that easy and I ended up with images on the web which are slightly yellow/green. Not so the originals which I supply. They are always spot on in colour. This year I simply did not feel like doing another 8000 images and to do sequences, because that becomes boring quickly. This year I wanted to focus more on technical image quality as well as a "studio" type look of the images. I also have experimented a little with panning the power boats, which is hard to do and one gets a lot of "bad" shots. I could afford a lot of bad shots this year because I friend helped me to make sure we get enough shots of all our mates in the race as well as the others. He used a high end sports camera to do that and I had the opportunity to use one of my high resolution cameras with maximum quality.

I have also provided the "zoom in"  function for this image further down this page, just for the fun of it.

I will process all images in the next couple of weeks and I can tell you already: they are stunning to look at. All "bad" images will not be processed anyway.  You will all look good and actually you all do. It is really amazing how many smiles I caught and how great everyone looked.  I hope my images can convey this only a little bit.