On my way back I stopped the car and took a closer look. Damn, it was one of my photographs! And it was huge, gigantic, monstrous!
I'm wondering where some of my old photo's are gonna turn up next...
On my way back I stopped the car and took a closer look. Damn, it was one of my photographs! And it was huge, gigantic, monstrous!
I'm wondering where some of my old photo's are gonna turn up next...

Here's me singing the Alpha 900 theme song... "Fisheye, fisheye, just shoot me with a fisheeye!"

I don't like winter... give me heat, give me desert... I don't like cold, and my frogs neither!
Some idiot tried to blow up my windshield with a fire cracker! You can see the result below. We just had the windshield repaired a couple of months ago...



Some of the planned hikes we had to cancel, due to bad weather, sickness or washes out trails. But we got so see enough amazing new landscapes that we want to visit again on or next trip... After 8 trips were still not satisfied with the deserts of the south west! 

Last week legendary punkpioneers The Damned played our town. Since it was a monday and a last minute booking, the place didn't sell out. But again thanx to the guys from Oude Garde for delivering such a great and legendary band on our front lawn!
Discovering shots like the above, I picked up the original idea to publish a new book. The first one only cost me money (although it sold out), but internet publishing has reached a new level, why not take another chance?



The last night was something special. This year Greek Easter was a week later than our Easter. Around 22hrs a big procession walked through the streets of Parga, carrying candles and reliquary's. Although we are not that religious it was a beautiful sight and the singing was very impressive.
Today we drove to the south, first to Arta. A little town with nice shops! Most travelguides tell you to stay away from this town, but don't believe it! We actually found a bar that had over 50 foreign beers and Guinness from the tab!
After that we drove to a little Island Koronisia. Yep, you can drive to it, since they build a little street over the lagune.
We got up early to drive up the mountains to visit the big Meteoro Monastary. But not early enough, since the first busload of Japanese tourists was already at the gate. Like the big Johan Cruyff once said: “Every disadvantage has an advantage”. So we mingled in the Jap crowd and no monk noticed we were taking pictures inside the monastery which is forbidden.
Thank god for my Minolta’s anti-shake, so the photo’s came out quit good!
But we had one stop on our way back to Parga; Dodoni, an ancient Greek site with an enormous amphite theatre. Like most Greek excavations it is small and contains mostly some boring rocks (!?!), but we enjoy sites like this. Not much tourist and you mostly have the place to yourself. And the wild flowers were …. Ehm…. All over the place!!!! So not much rock to see!!!!
This morning we laid back a little and about 2 hours later as planned we drove off to Meteora where we’re gonna spent the night. The drive was beautiful over some mountain passes. Sometimes we could use some portions of a new highway they are building through the mountains, but mostly we drove over some hazardous mountain roads with deep ravines on either side for.
The whole trip took us 4 hours! The Meteora area is famous for it’s rock pinnacles some are a couple of hundred meters high with a monastery on top.



Ok, here's an example why I'm so stoked about my new job. This is a little project that has been completed last year. The canalization of an old creek has been undone and the creek is meandering like it use to for ages.
Since we are here in the low season most shops and restaurants are closed, but it also means we got the place almost to ourselves!
Oh and Caro? She found some chocolate! She’s happy!

With tickets that are cheaper than a trainride to Amsterdam, why not fly to Italy for a few days? So we did… Rented a car in Napoli and drove down to Positano on the Amalfi coast. One of the most beautifull coasts in Europe. Since it is low season, it is really cheap. Although most of the hotels and restaurants are closed.
Life is good, sipping on a beer on our terrazzo watching the sun going down...

Or am I still a bit delirious from the fever?

Here are two that I like very much...

Since my camera and laptop monitor where a little bit 'off', I can rescue some of the pics that I thought where lost! The pic in this entry isn't manipulated, just corrected the exposure and used the shadow/highlight recovery...
Also a big thanx to Tine Giesberts, who chose one of my photo to be her pic of the week on her Logspot. She has a great taste in picking those photo's every week, so I'm honored to be one of them!
28 Days just flew away... And now we're back home again. We went from Vegas to South Utah, Through Arizona, Palm Springs, Death Valley and back to Vegas. I'll be uploading loads of new pics on my website the next couple of weeks. But first I have to clean up the old website. I'm on my max quotum...
I'll keep you up to date... But for now you can check out our webdiary of our trip. Sorry Dutch only. But there are lot's of photo's from the trip on it. The link is on the right...
Another fair, another concept. This time a big photo cube to promote the touristic aspects of Roermond and its surroundings. Actually a simple but effective concept that really worked in the hall and it was a great eye catcher! And a little promotion for me, since almost all the photo's came from my archive.
Last friday the '5 years Oude Garde' exhibition opened with a blast! Several bands (incl. The Apers) played at the concert hall and The Pedro Delgado's headlined at the cafe in front of my photo exhibition...
Couldn't imagine a better band to do that, these guys rocked the place and it was a rock'n'folk mayhem with standing bass, banjo, guitars and accordeon!
A little trip down memory lane... It's been about 15 years since I was on a movie set. Last week, a big production company shot some scenes for a a TV show in Roermond. The photos look a bit gorie and bloody, but it is for a big family show (!)...
So if you have nothing to do next friday, check in... Oh and some bands like The Apers... THE F*CKING APERS!!!!!
First there was the band, a Raï band called Rai Rif, nothing special... But some of these guys I knew from other bands, rock bands! And the rest of them were really charming people from Marocco. I can't describe the vibe these guys had, but they couldn't stop playing during the shoot and it was a party that lasted all day!
Second there was the location, the bible museum... ehm, the last place of earth I want to visit voluntary! But it fit the music (middle eastern) and I had a chance to make fun of a lot of dull christians, who really were into the music the guys played. I think they actually got a gig out of it!
We never got to see the skyline of New York as it was the day before we got married... But it has a special place in our hearts...
The book is released in a limited edition of 200 and is written in English. I don't like stereotyping, but most of my blog visitors will not know Der Peter. So here's a little bio he won't like:
The old magic was back again, although I was missing a bit of the old guitar improvisations they used to drive each other mad... More pics of this great show can be found here!

Kurtz: "We train young men to drop bombs on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes, because it's obscene!... I watched a snail crawl along a straight razor... that's my dream, my nightmare... crawling, slithering... along the edge of that straight razor... and surviving!"
Woven Hand (Eugene Edwards' from 16 Horse Power) was the headliner of the biggest festival of the year in my hometown. The festival lasted 4 days, but we only attended the last day, to meet up with some old friends (hi D & D!) and see Mr. Edwards preach his gospels of American folkblues. A true sermon to end a perfect sunday!
Go and see them if they are playing at a stage near you! Really have to give my body a good rest and hoping to shoot Woven Hand (ex 16 HP) this sunday at the same festival. So keep your fingers crossed for me!
Finally the weather is getting better and we spend the whole night in the garden! Reading, eating, drinking and resting in our hammock... And that's about it... what I can do at this moment. My arthritis has gotten worse and my left ankle and right wrist is all swollen, so no long photoshop sessions for me the next week...

Actually, I hate flash photography!! But with one exeption; i've been experimenting with flash the last couple of years during concerts and my old one wasn't up to par anymore.
Jay is now solo after a short affair with a band called the Lost Sounds. And it is still high octane rocknroll!! His latest album blood vision even was a critics favorite and ended high in last years polls. Mr. Reatard and his bunch of mercanaries played most songs of that record twice as fast, so the show was over in just over half an hour. Leaving me and the audience stunned... What a great way to spend a sunday afternoon...

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After 20 yrs, Dead Moon is retiring. It has been a journey we will always treasure and feel that a worldwide family has emerged in its place. Dead Moon became much bigger than the band itself, it became a DIY underground hopeful for a lot of people. The candle is still burning!
Fred started his recording career in the early sixties as Deep Soul Cole. In the mid 60's he had an USA hit with his garage punk combo the Lollipop Shoppe and a song called "You must be a Witch". This song was also one of the highlights of every Dead Moon show. After that he played in bands as The Rats, The Weeds and became one of the founders of the stoner sound with Zipper.
In the early 80's he formed Dead Moon with his wife and longtime compagnion Toody together with drummer Andrew. Since then they have been touring and recording non stop. They record all of their albums and singles in mono, in their bedroom, using the old recording device that was used on the orignal of "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen!
Although it is the band that I saw play live more than any other, I only have photographed them once. Most of the time I was to busy in the pit...
The boys played a small gig last friday to promote the DVD in our local record store called Sounds. And I got to copies from the band. The cover really looks nice, so does the DVD menus, for which they used my photo's. Peter Pan Speedrock is one of the hardest working bands in the Netherlands and I was lucky to play with them a couple of times as a support act in the past. The DVD contains some hilarious footages of their USA-tours and some great live stuff recorded at the Pink Pop and Lowlands Festivals to name a few.
Lead singer and organ player Robert was in the last version of Los Cheatos, the surf band I played in the 90's. Although we never did a live gig with Robert, it was one always fun to play with him, since he's an excellent musician. Soon after the split up of the band, he started the Skarabeez.
They play old skool ska, like the Skatalites and Lauren Aitken. They do a lot of opening gigs for Mark Foggo & the Skasters. Wich makes the circle round again, since one of the first gigs I did as a little punk in the 80's was as a supportgig for Mr. Foggo. It's a small world after all!!!!!

He played bassguitar in his own support act Harlan T Bobo, wich proves mr. Jack just wants to play music or produce bands he likes.


Althought we were very tired and so was the band, it was an adrenaline rush, just what the doctor ordered.



And this one isn't:
Well that's life!


Meanwile Caro is painting the walls in the living room. Still no message from the contracter that will install the new garden door in the livingroom... It hate it when you are depending on others to get something done!
I got accepted as a member of the SVFN!
Friday afternoon, we signed the new contract for our new house, so it's ours now!!!!! Well, actually it is the bank's since theres a morgage....





... and came up with the above pic! I don't like the composition, a bit of cropping can enhance it, but overal the pic looks nice...