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RIDER RODERICK PIJLS

PHOTO REIN RIJKE

LOCATION BROUWERSDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

Together with Rein, we wanted to create the ultimate sunset shot with a humongous big sunset. In order to accomplish this, we had to create a distance of more than two kilometers between each other, with Rein at the beach with a 1200mm lens. The most difficult part was to get the right spot. A slight difference of me just 20 meters off would put me completely out of frame. We had two walkie-talkies in order to communicate with each other but unfortunately, just before sunset (when I was two kilometers from the coast), the walkie-talkies got out of reach. So we had to do it completely based on intuition and with no communication but, luckily, we pulled it off. In my opinion, it brings a combination of two different

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