Tag: Ankies
Through Ankie’s Lens: ‘My photos are my children’
A dear colleague from a major newspaper once urged me never to relinquish the copyright of my photos, “It’s all you have as a photographer”. The best advice ever. Throughout…
Through Ankie’s Lens: also hit the last ball just as well
With a loud thud he puts the large heavy box on the shiny floor of the sports hall: “Walked two kilometers!”. Especially for me, the guys from UVV brought all…
Through Ankie’s Lens: ‘Like a thief in the night with my camera bag on the back’
For days I’ve been cycling through the city like a thief in the night with my camera bag on the back. From Leidsche Rijn to Overvecht and from the Science…
Through Ankie’s Lens: ‘Falling and getting up, pure happiness’
Every morning I walk with my two dogs along a special piece of Utrecht nature in the middle of my beloved Vinex neighborhood. I’ll be there in five minutes. As…
Through Ankie’s Lens: ‘Femke not sportswoman of the year? A missed opportunity!’
Athletics-loving Netherlands is in minor. Where the mother of sports finally has a daughter who masters the basic human movements of walking and jumping in detail and shows them to…
Through Ankie’s Lens: ‘Football is sitting in the TGV for ten hours, on the way to the final’
Maybe something about the World Cup? I don’t know. What should I write about an event, a sport, about which everything has already been said. Football is warm childhood memories…
Through Ankie’s Lens: ‘It is the sport that makes him happy’
“Where is he now?” If only I had brought my new glasses with me. Misplaced vanity. “It looks good on him in that black shirt. Is he enjoying himself in…
Through Ankie’s Lens: the circle is complete
Good-humoured I drive with my family on the Catharijnesingel on Sunday afternoon. Zigzagging through a group of exuberant, young, still fresh students, I make my way past a row of…
Through Ankie’s Lens: Out of the tunnel, back into the light!
While colleagues from all corners of the world gather in my city along with thousands of spectators for the start of the Vuelta a España, I myself sit 1,600 kilometers…
Through Ankie’s Lens: strong together
In the sixty-sixth minute of the opening game of the tournament, Shanice van de Sanden from IJsselstein heads the ball into the opponent’s goal. Netherlands v Norway: 1 – 0.…