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He's a Dutch photographer who shoots the stars and the landscapes around him.
His images regularly appear in publications like National Geographic and several cameras, including some of CNN's own accompanied draws on a recent trip to Kyrgyzstan.
This is a country in Central Asia.
It's described by the CIA World Factbook as a land of incredible natural beauty and proud nomadic traditions draws.
His trip proves that one frame at a time.
Landscape photography is really my passion, So this trip is very unique for me because I'm exploring places that I have never been to.
But in some places, no one has ever been to.
I'm albatross.
I'm a professional landscape photographer from the Netherlands.
I organized a lot off photography workshops and photo tours.
I sell Prince.
I write for some magazines.
I write for photography blocks.
So through the whole year I'm working a lot.
But I also think it's very important to keep innovating, visit a new country, try to plan a crazy shot.
I just want to keep challenging myself.
My girlfriend is from Kyrgyzstan, and I met her in Amsterdam and before I met her.
Actually, I had almost never heard off this country.
When I was doing some research online, I was really drawn.
Uh, I wanted to explore it.
In Kyrgyzstan, you drive through areas with very interesting Kenyans.
You come to really empty plains where only some shepherds live.
You know, I wanted to see places that almost no one has been through.
And here I also marked some spots like right next to the road, you see, so I can lift the drone here.
And so it's also very close to each other.
You know, when I checked this, I didn't know that this part, if it's a road or rich or very actually, yeah, and you can drive there.
E picked this timing for the strip specifically to shoot some stars and Milky Way shots.
So during the day, we usually scout around, do some shots with the drone.
I use Google Earth, but also planning apse for my phone and for the computer Milky Way three o'clock this direction during the night.
I will then go there to photograph them.
Oh, the fun thing.
And also the challenging thing about these shots ISS that we planned them together and we execute them during the night.
It's pitch black and its around minus 10 degrees.
It za bit difficult in the beginning when you have to wake up at three or 4 a.m. But once you're out there, it's just beautiful.
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If you would send here mhm, it's also nice.
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Yeah, good In these canyons, there's a lot of interesting structures, and you can really play with light.
We're using teamers headlamp to light up this rock, which we actually called the iceberg, and it gives a really magical effect.
It looks really like a science fiction poster.
We also brought in old oil lamp that we would use to light up a scene, and it gives a very nice soft light result in the frame.
The scenery is they offer so much possibilities for night shootings.
But the end result is not only the picture.
You see, it's the whole experience that we had taking this picture.
So in this country you can really find beauty anywhere.
Mhm.
When we're driving around, I look out the window and often I just see scenes.
I saw this really beautiful three against this huge mountain backdrop on.
There were some horses walking around We also visit Water Reservoir, Big Lake, which was partly frozen.
I could fly the drone and see top down.
Very interesting contrast between the landscapes, amazing textures from the sky.
And it's very easy here in Kyrgyzstan.
On most of the roads, you can just stop, get out, take the shot.
Seems like this.
They're totally unplanned.
Sometimes you will get great shots just from that through my images, especially from a place like this that not that many people have seen.
I want to show how beautiful these places are, and that is definitely worth to visit.
The hospitality everywhere is very good, and the locals here in general.
It's like you go back in time.
They live in the mountains.
It's beautiful nature around them.
It's very interesting to see how these people live.
What impressed me the most was really that you have all these different kind of landscapes.
Just in one place.
Kenyans like in Utah, the mountains that we have in Europe, peaks that you see in the Himalaya.