imageLab photography Paul Struijk
photography + art workshops worldwide + mentorships
Rotterdam is always good for old or new architecture .. but the last years something is changing into the direction of ‘more life’ in the streets, more popups, more coffee or smoothie terrasses .. the city is becoming more outgoing .. and so it happened that also Hotel New York with it’s grandeur became a hotspot for the ‘young and restless’
Today the workshop Macro Photography was blessed with great weather: sun and not too much wind. I had only two students so I had time to test my new old 90mm lens .. and that was totally making me feel good .. it was sick!! wow what a beautiful old lens .. my advice: buy at least one old lens for special occasions .. and go wild!!
Making Stills in the studio is a great pleasure .. you need to forget time and work with 100% focus on the creation of beauty in your pictures. Light and good materials is the key, patience and persistance crucial. The result of hard work is one or two pictures that make you smile. Work done, the workplace cleaned up, a tea and satisfaction. Just dough this time, but the best dough, actually three types of dough for pizza’s.
©Paul Struijk
Last day Phototrip Paris and then: hurry up to Gare du Nord and the Thalys back home (in Amsterdam).
photo taken at Pont Bir-Hakeim (in between metrostation Bir Hakeim and metrostation Passy) Paris.
©Paul Struijk