Posted on 11 February 2016
Every time a publisher asks me for an image, or someone orders a fine art print, the same thing happens. I search for the file on my computer, open it in Photoshop, and think: why did I process it like this? Then I start fine tuning the image, correcting small mistakes, and I end up […] > Read More....
Posted on 16 December 2015
The great things in life always seem to happen when you least expect it. Last week we were still in Antarctica when I got an email from the Travel Photographer Of The Year competition asking me for my high res files. I knew I was in the finals, and I thought I had already uploaded […] > Read More....
Posted on 26 September 2015
We are proud to announce that photographer Ryan Dyar has joined the Squiver team. Ryan is known for his atmospheric landscape images and his popular post processing video tutorials. Not only that, he is also a great guy to travel with and to learn from, which is why we asked him in the first place. > Read More....
Posted on 21 April 2015
A few more weeks to go, and we are back in Namibia. We love Namibia. It was the first ever Squiver tour we set up, because we thought it was a location with absolutely stunning and unique landscapes. Marsel has made Namibia “his own” and won many awards with images shot on various locati > Read More....
Posted on 12 October 2014
The prestigious International Photography Awards (IPA) has announced the winners of this year’s competition. An international jury of photography professionals selected Marsel’s series ‘Beyond the veil of death’ and his famous snow monkey with iPhone shot ‘Facebook update’ from over 27,0 > Read More....
Posted on 29 August 2013
We are very proud to announce that Marsel’s image ‘Resurrection’ was successful in the Creative Vision category of the 2013 Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Awards! It was shot in Deadvlei, Namibia, and here’s how it all got started: One of the many aspects of my preparation > Read More....
Posted on 14 June 2013
The latest issue of National Geographic Traveler features one of my less known images: a romantic dinner set up at a safari lodge in Namibia. :-) Taking shots like this is not much different from any other type of image. It’s all about composition, framing, point of view, light and perspective > Read More....
Posted on 22 April 2013
A few months ago Spanish painter Juan Manel Vargas Vega asked my permission to paint my famous picture Invasion Of The Dunes. Ever since it was published in National Geographic it has become one of my most published, most sold, and most copied image. This is the final result. I’m sure it took > Read More....
Posted on 10 March 2013
The Namibian Tourism Board has asked me to give their readers a personal account of what it is like there, and share some tips on photography in Namibia. You can read it here. > Read More....
Posted on 22 January 2013
Namibian Nights, our timelapse video that won First Prize in the Travel Photographer Of The Year Awards, is now online! Please visit our Squiver channel on Vimeo for more videos from us! > Read More....
Posted on 20 January 1948
Deadvlei, Namibia, just before Astronomical Twilight. The afterglow of sunset can still be seen on the dunes in the background – the human doesn’t pick this up, but the camera does. > Read More....
Posted on 20 January 1940
Deadvlei, Namibia, just before Astronomical Twilight. The afterglow of sunset can still be seen on the dunes in the background – the human doesn’t pick this up, but the camera does. > Read More....
Posted on 20 January 1937
The trees in Deadvlei, Namibia, are said to be between 600-700 years old. The reason that they’re still there is two-fold. First, these camel thorn trees are made of really dense, hard wood. And second, the air in this region is extremely dry – this is basically one of the driest places on t > Read More....
Posted on 15 January 1937
This panorama consists of 15 images that were shot during rare foggy conditions in Deadvlei, Namibia. This image won a Special Award in the International Pano Awards. > Read More....
Posted on 13 January 1936
One of the big advantages of having been to a place a million times before, is that you know exactly what’s going to happen when and where. In this case that enabled me to set up this composition just before the sun actually appeared above the dune line, and shoot a focus stack for the […] > Read More....
Posted on 20 January 1928
Deadvlei, Namibia, at night. This composition is not one that you’ve seen before, and that’s because it only looks good from one very particular low angle spot – a few inches in any direction and it looks horribly cluttered. The fog, the stars and the backlight simply take it to th > Read More....
Posted on 20 January 1920
Deadvlei, Namibia, at night. This composition is not one that you’ve seen before, and that’s because it only looks good from one very particular low angle spot – a few inches in any direction and it looks horribly cluttered. The fog, the stars and the backlight simply take it to th > Read More....
Posted on 16 January 1917
Pelican photographed from a boat off the coast of Namibia. This image is part of a series of four photographs that won me the overall title Travel Photographer Of The Year 2015. > Read More....
Pelicans photographed from a boat off the coast of Namibia. This image is part of a series of four photographs that won me the overall title Travel Photographer Of The Year 2015. > Read More....
Pelicans photographed from a boat off the coast of Namibia. This image is part of a series of four photographs that won me the overall title Travel Photographer Of The Year 2015. > Read More....
Pelicans photographed from a boat off the coast of Namibia. This image is part of a series of four photographs that won me the overall title Travel Photographer Of The Year 2015. > Read More....
Posted on 20 January 1910
One of the big advantages of having been to a place a million times before, is that you know exactly what’s going to happen when and where. In this case that enabled me to set up this composition just before the sun actually appeared above the dune line, and shoot a focus stack for the […] > Read More....
Posted on 14 January 1901
This panorama consists of 15 images that were shot during rare foggy conditions in Deadvlei, Namibia. This image won a Special Award in the International Pano Awards. > Read More....
