In his spare time from school, he could be found along the fences around the air base. Making new spotting friends and started to write down serial numbers, his hobby begun to expand.
Visits to other airbases within the Netherlands were made, and foreign visits to Germany e.g. Hopsten, Wittmund and RAF Brüggen where made.
As he was still in school, he got his first SLR camera from his parents on his 15th birthday.
After saving money for a zoom lens, his interest in photography became bigger and he started to photograph his hobby aviation. After many shots and 10 years later, his old camera needed to be replaced by a new digital DSLR.
He wanted to join the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) after he had been graduated from school, and did so in 2002.
After various functions within the RNLAF, he now works as an assistant crewchief on the F-16MLU. Since the beginning he is based at the airbase where it all begun, Leeuwarden Air Base.
He retrieves his passion for military aviation out of his work.
He submits photographs for various aviation magazines within the RNLAF, and he shares his passion for aviation photography by placing his taken photographs to show the world. |
