“Good photographers – I think – are always on the lookout for ‘the other angle’. While most gather at the starting pontoons or the medal ceremonies (and yes, take great shots there!), guys like Igor Meijer are somewhere up in a tree or dangling from a rock. I was happy to share a sunrise with him this week.
I also swam between the arrival pontoons with a waterproof camera housing. For this photo, I wanted to picture this event in all its greatness: from above. It’s a commercial choice as well: I know these images will be sold for years to come. So I rented an airplane with pilot Michiel Munting, who truly did everything he could to convince the tower we needed to be there on relatively low altitude. I only would have loved to see the Dutch boat in the middle rowing ahead.”