The campus of Utrecht University has a small field with sheep, and today I got up close and personal. One of the big sheep was even tame enough to let me stroke and pat it!

More photos after the break

Marit and I had a long, very romantic weekend in Paris a few weeks ago. Photo-wise all I took with me was my Chinon CS, two lenses (50mm f/1.7 and 28mm f/2.8), and a roll of Kodak 400TX.

Check all the photos on Flickr or just watch the slideshow.

Some of the highlights after the break...

Gisteren geschoten bij het Café Theater Festival in Utrecht. Ik liep de route Klinkt als... en zag de volgende voorstellingen. De links wijzen naar de eerste foto van de voorstelling, met de pijltjes "Next" en "Previous" boven de foto's ga je naar de volgende/vorige foto. De foto hier boven is van Kiki Schippers y Los Rubios.

1. IK-Radio - De onzichtbare man

2. Medea, Black Dahlia, Marilyn Monroe (a celebration of the in-between)

3. Kiki Schippers y Los Rubios - Springtij

4. De Blonde Jongens en Tim - Debjet BV

5. Inge Wannet - Als de muren konden praten

Het was overal superdruk! Groot succes dus, want overal kwam ik enthousiaste mensen tegen. Fotografisch was het een flinke uitdaging om tussen alle mensen door te wurmen, de foto's te maken die ik wilde maken, en toch zo min mogelijk in de weg te zitten. Als je de kans hebt om te gaan kijken zou ik dat zeker doen, het is echt een unieke ervaring!

Een paar highlights...

This summer Flickr will stop supporting their old authentication system and move fully to OAuth. I've gotten several questions about whether Python FlickrAPI will support that. No worries, it will. If you want it fast, clone the repository, implement OAuth (don't forget the unittests) and send me a pull request.

One of my photographic heroes, Joe McNally, wrote a blog post looking back 20 years at National Geographic. He also has a video from back in 1992 about the process of National Geographic, from the photograph via editing, more editing, and then finally to print. It's very cool to look at, if not for the story then at least for the hair.

I find it striking how much Joe looks like what I feel is a typical NY photographer back in the days. I would see him shoot alongside Peter Parker any day.

Check the video after the break...