And the most exciting moment when your new book goes to press: adjusting the printing press for the printing of the cover of the book. Picture taken at Drukkerij Slinger (printing company) in Alkmaar while printing my new and upcoming 2012 book.
And the most exciting moment when your new book goes to press: adjusting the printing press for the printing of the cover of the book. Picture taken at Drukkerij Slinger (printing company) in Alkmaar while printing my new and upcoming 2012 book.
One of the printers at Drukkerij Slinger (printing company) in Alkmaar tests a proofing print of my upcoming book for accurate colors. My pictures and the design of the book were done in -normal- Adobe RGB colorspace, but before the print run is done, the whole thing must be converted to the colorspace that is both a combination of the paper and inks that are used in the book. Actually, this is done before printing the thing, but further adjusting the colors at press-time takes a while and eats up hundreds of pages that are thrown away.
A printer at Drukkerij Slinger (printing company) in Alkmaar changes the photographic plates while printing my new and upcoming 2012 book. Impressive sight to see the level of quality and control that comes with a print job of a photographic book!
I surely hope those slight slant eyes on the plates won’t give away too much of my subjects for this book
We have a few days of Heavy fog here in Holland. Visibility sometimes drops under 50 meters and that looks pretty moody. In between assignments today I stopped by one of the local graveyards (yes, I am playing too much Skyrim) to see if there was enough fog to capture some nice images. I tried the old graves at the Jewish corner of the cemetary, but I liked the big tree in the middle of the field better (It’s so impressive; I photographed it before).
Where better to find a Chinese take-away restaurant than in the land where they invented this? Pictured is a restaurant in Beijing that also caters for pickup. The man on the right (at the counter window) just drove in with his electric tricycle to get some Chinese food. Location: Guijie Street (also known to locals as Ghost Street), DongCheng District.
It took a four hour drive from Beijing, but I managed to photograph the Great Wall at Jinshanling in China without any (Chinese) tourists in view. The view was breathtaking (as were all those steps). Climbing and photographing all these towers was the best way to spend my birthday (which was exactly what I did there