Together with Alfons Schure a short movie was created of the Plankenkoorts Lustrumtrip to PK PARADISE in Quiberon, France. Enjoy!
PK PARADISE: Plankenkoorts 6de lustrum trip from Alfons Schure on Vimeo.
Instead of more pictures, I created a short film to give you an impression of the surftrip! Spring has started, which means longer days and hopefully many after work surfsessions!
Canaries 2010-2011 – Moerasbevertrip from Menno van der Bijl on Vimeo.
It’s been some time, because in The Netherlands it’s was ball freezing cold! However, I’ve been on Tenerife now for a week with three friends (Tino, Tom and Bas) and the surf here is ON! The first day I had one of the best windsurfsessions in my life! Side-offshore wind and 1-2 meter swell. I got to take some great photo’s of the locals and my friends. We are staying in a luxury appartment with a huge swimmingpool and the weather is 25 degrees with a lot of sunshine! The wind is gone for the coming days, but since Tenerife is an island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean it receives a lot of swells, so surfing is good here almost everyday! Tom took some pictures of me dropping in on a shorebreak bomb. Not used to these kind of waves yet I wiped out and got held down for more than twenty seconds! Enjoy the pictures. More will probably follow later on!
Got the chance to finally test my new board! A 6’6 x 20″1/2 x 2″ 5/8 modern fish. A great board for the dutch waves I must say! Easy to get speed on the less powerful windswell we have here in the Northsea. Because of the wind and the crowd I decided to go windsurfing, which was hard but also a lot of fun!
Took some pictures before I went in the water.
Thanks to the whole tripcrew for the great surftrip!
On tuesday the 14th of September 2010 the old and new generations of Plankenkoorts members competed against eachother in a fantastic windsurfing event. Wind was 25-40 knots, waves up to 2.5 meters! After surfing my heat, I decided to go out for some fun surf. Almost made a backloop by accident, which felt great! So I wanted to try more looping, but I got stuck in the shorebreak and a wave broke my mast! Crap! However, this gave me the time to take some great pictures of the other windsurfers. It was cold, raining and very very windy, but they gave away an amazing show and it was really fun to watch. My camera seemed to hold up pretty well with all the wind, sand and rain. Thanks to Plankenkoorts for organizing this amazing event!
I created this picture from three exposures with my camera on the ground, because I didn’t have a tripod at the moment. One of my first attempts to create an HDR photo!
Finally took the time to make a selection of my favourite pictures from the windsurftrip to Leucate! Two weeks of sunshine, windsurffun and partying! I took more than 700 pictures, most of them of my friends windsurfing. Also played around with the video function on my EOS 500D and I’m almost done editing the Leucate movie. When it’s finished I will post it here ofcourse! Enjoy the Leucate pictures!
Same location, new pictures! I must say, the waves were not as good as in May, but still we managed to have a lot of fun! Pictures and a movie of my windsurfing trip to Leucate will be posted soon!
Finally some surf again! Southwest winds all day resulted in some rideable waves in the evening. With a golden sunset to finish it off, this was actually a very nice session. The next three weeks I will be off to France! First a week of surfing waves on the west-coast with two friends. Then I will travel to Leucate by train to do some windsurfing with a whole crew of Plankenkoorts members! I’ll bring my camera of course and hopefully I will be able to grab some nice scenery and surf action shots! For now, enjoy these Dutch pictures!
