Posted on 22 September 2014
The Natural History Museum has published a new book: ’50 Years of Wildlife Photographer of the Year – How Wildlife Photography Became Art.’ With only 180 photographs in the book, I am proud to be one of the featured photographers. It’s a real honor to be amongst so many truly great a > Read More....
Posted on 27 August 2014
I’m a big fan of science, so it’s a great honor that the prestigious scientific journal Nature has used one of my rock arch images on the cover of their August issue. The image is called ‘At The Gates’ and features Double Arch, shot at night at Arches National Park, Utah, USA. The li > Read More....
Posted on 22 June 2014
Interesting. Ashton Kutcher – the actor from Two and a Half Men, and the guy that plays Steve Jobs in the movie Jobs – has posted a filtered version of my snow monkey image on his FB page. I am not credited as the photographer. However, there is a tiny watermark near the bottom of [&hell > Read More....
Posted on 2 March 2014
The shot I made of a lion charging is without a doubt popular. Unfortunately that also means that publishers, or cunning business people think they can just steal it and make the image work for them. I’ve seen it appearing as screen savers, iPad covers, iPhone covers, buttons, pacifiers (!), a > Read More....
Posted on 22 July 2013
Here’s the latest blog post that I wrote for National Geographic: Antarctica is without doubt one of the wildest places on earth. It is seriously remote, it is not easy (or cheap) to get there, there is no infrastructure, and the climate is as extreme as it can get. When I traveled there for t > Read More....
Posted on 12 June 2013
The latest issue of UK’s top selling photo magazine Practical Photography now features my popular giraffe image Looking Up in their Gallery section. Looking Up – a giraffe image done differently The caption says: “This image was shot on a Boot Camp in Spain where I teach photograph > Read More....
Posted on 29 May 2013
Outdoor Photographer now features a blog post that I wrote on night photography in Arches National Park, Utah, USA. Of all the National Parks that I have ever visited in the US, Arches National Park is without a doubt the most iconic. Many millions of photographs have been shot here, and to come up > Read More....
Posted on 17 May 2013
National Geographic (Dutch edition) has asked me to write blogs on photography and my travels for their website. The first one was posted today. Snowmobile An important quality of a wildlife photographer is the ability to predict animal behavior. That means that you should not only look at your subj > Read More....
Posted on 26 April 2013
My popular image Ice Capades, shot on our Winter Wilderness tour in Iceland, is now used by Synology in an ad to promote their NAS servers. I’m a big fan of my Synology DiskStation DS1812+, so I can honestly say that I’m behind this ad 100%. If you’re looking for a fast, reliable b > Read More....
Posted on 14 March 2013
Well, that’s the title that The Weather Channel came up with for showcasing Marsel’s work :-) There’s also a short interview with Marsel on the website of The Weather Channel: 21 Landscapes That Will Blow Your Mind > Read More....
Posted on 10 March 2013
Photography Masterclass Magazine is a magazine designed exclusively for the iPad Newsstand, and I am the Featured Photographer in their current issue. > Read More....
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 6 January 2013
Marsel’s Iceland picture ‘Ice Capades’ is Image of the Month on Naturescapes. Here’s the background info that accompanies the shot:‘Early this year I was travelling in Iceland, scouting for locations for a new tour. I was prepared to see a lot of spectacular landscapes, > Read More....
