16 new photographs of the gig by An Pierlé & White Velvet the Amsterdam venue 'De Melkweg'

Sunday 12 December 2010 An Pierlé & White Velvet playing their new CD Hinterland in De Melkweg It's been a couple of years since the Belgium band led by An Pierlé and her White Velvets (with Koen Gisen on guitar, Klaas Delvaux on bass and Peter de Bosschere on drums) performed in The Netherlands. Tonight was the night: the first Dutch concert took place in the Amsterdam venue 'De Melkweg'. Once again their sound has changed as can be heard on their latest CD Hinterland, and it takes a while to get used to it. Similary, it had been quite a while since I last took live concert pictures. I'd say, judge the result for yourself..! View the new concert pictures!

Two new postcards for the family...

Monday 6 December 2010 Photographed & designed: two postcards Relatives are bad customers, but things aren't always about money and so lately I found myself taking photographs for one postcard, while using old scanned family pictures for the other. Design was done accordingly to the personal specifications and both designs were printed in low volumes. The result turned out to be very good, and many of the recipients phoned up to express their satisfaction. Thanks! LEXsample has solid experience with designing and printing postcards. If you need any help, just send me and email through the contact page. See also my other pieces of work & publications

The new catalogue contains the best pictures, old and new, that can be ordered through LEXsample

Monday 29 November 2010 Photo catalogue scheduled for spring 2011 The LEXsample photo catalogue is in the making! The book will be downloadable as a PDF document and will contain the best photographs available for framing or printing on canvas. Its release is scheduled for spring 2011. A download version will be available from this website so you can browse through it whenever and wherever you want. If you are interested in the catalogue, just send an email and you will receive one back as a notification as soon as the catalogue is available for downloading. Refer to this link for all information: download the catalogue More money for the albatross Last weekend the Dutch bird information fair, organised by Sovon, took place. Sovon is a national organisation censusing birds for nature management, politics and research. LEXsample collaborated with the Dutch Seabird Group and many people visited their stand. During the day another € 50,00 was collected for BirdLife's Save The Albatross campaign. Since 2007 LEXsample has collected over € 7500 for the albatross! To all visitors: thank you very much for your support and interest, and hopefully see you again next year. Overview of all donations for Save The Albatross

Dutch/Frisian singer Nynke Laverman recorded a song for the Toon Hermans Huis Fryslân, a foundation for cancer patients and their relatives.

Sunday 5 September 2010 LEXsample photograph on cover new CD single by Nynke Laverman The Toon Hermanshuis Fryslân (THHF) is a meeting place for people who suffer from cancer. Housed in the former prison in the city of Leeuwarden, capital of Friesland, the foundation offers multiple activities that are mainly supported by volonteers. The THHF foundation celebrated its first birthday and took the opportunity to launch a new publicity campaign to get better known. The name of this campaign translates into 'Show Your Story' and has its own website where you can listen to a fragment of the song, sung in Frisian, titeled As De Leafde Net Bestie ('If Love Would Not Exist'), a song written by the famous Dutch entertainer Toon Hermans (after whom the foundation was named) and recorded and translated by Nynke Laverman. She has taken up the role of ambassador of the foundation. For the front cover she selected a photograph I took during one of her concerts. Musicians who can be heard playing on the new CD single include Peter van der Zwaag, Peter Weimar, Ian van den Berk, Aidan Pendleton en Teije Hylkema. Useful links (all in Dutch): Toon Hermanshuis Frylsan - meer informatie over het werk van de stichting toonjeverhaal.nl - Beluister en bestel de CD-single (alle opbrengsten gaan naar het THHF)

This Manx Shearwater, which I photographed last summer in Scotland, belongs to the same family as Zino's Petrel.

Thursday 26 Augustus 2010 Forest fire kills 65% of Zino's Petrel chicks Birdlife International reports that forest fires have raged over the last couple of months on the island of Madeira, Portugal. These fires have also destroyed the breeding grounds of Europe's rarest seabird species. Before the disaster, the entire population was estimated to count between 130-160 individual birds. IUCN classificies this species as 'Endangered'. Like many other petrel species, Zino's Petrel breeds in a tunnel under the ground, where the pair raises just one chick every year 25 chicks and three adult birds have been found killed by the forest fires. Apparently only 13 chicks have survived. The fire has also affected the soil in which the birds dig their tunnel, which they use year after year. BirdLife International and BirdLife Portugal ask for financial help to save the remaining birds, and to restore their habitat. One action item is the creation of artificial nests (which has proved succesful on a nearby island). Having observed and photographed many species of seabirds, I am naturally very much concerned with their conservation. I have donated £100.00 on behalf of LEXsample for the conservation of Zino's Petrel. I hope you can miss some coins too...! Please find below a couple of useful links (all open in a new window): Read BirdLife International's press release. Donate some money for the conservation of Zino's Petrel. Read more about Zino's Petrel on Wikipedia

Thursday 1 July 2010 Whaling in Antarctica From the 'Antarctica' link in the main menu you will find a lot of background information which I keep updating. The latest addition, to the section of book reviews, is a seperate page containing new titles of books on Antarctic whaling.

Wednesday 26 May 2010 New set of LEXsample postcards: Birds Of The Netherlands (2) The 'natural' follow-up of the first edition! Five new and fresh photographs of birds that can be spotted in the Netherlands (and have been photographed there by me) and abroad: a Buzzard and a Purple Heron in flight, a group of Dunlins mirrored in the water in which they are about to land, a Redshank supervising its young chicks, and a Little ringed plover searching the mud for food. If you wish to purchase these new postcards: use the online ordering form visit my stand (Netherlands only!), check the agenda (Dutch only) for details go to one of the outlet points (mainly based in the Netherlands) Reduced price on printed photographs It's good news for everybody who's looking for something fine to put on the wall: the price for framed photographs has been reduced, from € 125,00 to € 95,00. The price for photos without frame has also been reduced. Check the catalogue for an overview of pictures you can chose from. However, there are (many) more photographs that have not been put online yet. So if you are looking for something else, feel free to get in touch with me.

Saturday 13 March 2010 New lectures I have finally taken the time to finalize the lectures, which I am offering to Open Universities and other organisations (also in English language). At the moment I am offering three different lectures. View the page with the overview of lectures if you wish to book a lecture. View the agenda (Dutch only) if you are interested to attend a lecture. Finally, LEXsample can also be reached by phone. Check here for the phone number. Of course you can still simply drop an email by using the contact page.

Thursday 7 January 2010 2010 has already started A very good new year to all of you! Time really seems to fly... I hope there'll be many nice photographs in 2010. The last couple of weeks I have put much time and effort into updating my lectures. I hope to be able to update the information on these lecture on this website in spring. Indeed, a couple of lectures are scheduled for 2010, so keep an eye on the agenda if you are interested. Thank you all for your interest in my work!