The unavoidable happened: I did clean up my room today. Threw away tons of paper, removed thick layers of dust, sorted bank statements, unpaid invoices, birthday cards and magazines and threw away all socks with holes in them.

Yesterday I took some garden pics. Look at the change compared to my previous post!

Do you recognize the feeling that you feel morally obliged to update your blog but you have nothing particular to tell to your audience? That's the way I feel at the moment. Don't think my life is boring or nothing has happened since my last post, that's not the case.

I've been working hard, but that's a topic I prefer to avoid here. I bought a new camera (NIkon D700) and lens (24-70/2.8) and I'm busy chasing models to make appointments for shoots. I got a couple of requests from the BDSM scene after I published my bondage set on PBase, but there is more in life than ropes and whips!

My good friend Lilith, model and photographer, published her first book at Blurb books which inspired me to go through my archives and see what I could make out of that huge amount of pictures. I decided to start with books with travel pictures of Tuscany and Norway first, and then make a model photo book. If you'd like to be in the book, let me know!

What else? As you probably remember I moved to a new place last year. We took one year for a couple of indoor modifications and decoration, last week we started Phase 2: the garden.

It will take a couple of weeks before it's ready but than we have our dream garden (I hope).

O, I just signed up for a 5 day technical conference in Barcelona in November. I hope I manage to blend lectures, sight-seeing and some city running (the Zevenheuvelenloop is only two days after I will fly back home) into a pleasant stay.

That's it!

I was invited to attend a bondage session with Hans and Selena, regular contributors to http://www.bondagegeisha.com and http://www.powerotics.com . It was my first experience (definitely not my last) and I learned a lot... Last night I uploaded a selection of my pictures to PBase, please have a look if you're interested...

One of my pictures of the tattoo convention has been published on the Tons of tattoos website. Thanks, Marisa!

I missed you all (but Kip) at the convention today! Forgot to bring your phone numbers and though I kept my eyes open all day, I saw no Dutch SG's or members of this site... I took a lot of pics and I will publish them as soon as possible on my PBase galleries...

Last night I celebrated my birthday with an excellent dinner in restaurant Cordial. Absolutely recommended if you appreciate first class food and good wines.

Time for a new update. I can imagine you've started wondering if I'm still alive. After taking hundreds of baby pictures during the last couple of months I've finally booked my first model shoot in ages: 4 masseuses need a new set of promotional material. Interesting.

I decided not to sign up for the semi marathon in the Ardennes and I skip the Metallica concert so I probably be around at the convention in Amsterdam. With my camera.

Weeew... I've become a daddy again! Last Monday my wife gave birth to a beautiful son called Ivar Milan Fender.



Isn't he sweet?

Holidays... finally time to go through some old picture archives and spend hours in my room with Photoshop, good background music and liquor.



I've just uploaded some pics to PBase for you to watch...

I promised myself I would edit some more photos before the end of the year and I kept my promise... I've some new pics online on my PBase gallery!