by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Blog Favourites, Travel Guides
All you need to know about visiting Bagan. The ‘One and only Ultimate travel guide to Bagan’ title is a pretty bold statement, but it’s a fact that pretty much every Bagan travel guide is out of date. There have been so many changes going on at Bagan, that the entire...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog
Balloon ride over the temples of Bagan at sunrise. Bagan is known worldwide as one of the most spectacular locations for a balloon flight. No wonder a Bagan balloon ride is on many people’s bucket list. From October to April each year balloons rise at sunrise to...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Guides
Inle Lake Travel Guide Welcome to my Inle Lake Travel Guide. I hope this will inspire you to visit this unique place, despite some controversies perhaps. But more about that later on. In western Shan State, you find the picturesque Inle Lake, famous for its floating...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Guides
Hpa An travel guide. Welcome to this Hpa An travel guide. This often overlooked scruffy little town lies is surrounded by a stunning landscape of rice fields and karst mountains, hiding incredible caves, filled with statues and decorations. Known as the former...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Flying over Hpa An, Myanmar – A unique drone capture! This drone movie ‘Flying over Hpa An’ shows some incredible views of the area around Hpa An. Hpa An, capital of Kayin State in the southeast, is surrounded by dramatic karst mountain scenery which...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Photography Tips, Singapore, Travel Blog
Singapore TimeScape Here’s a fun little Singapore TimeScape project in which I turn two timelapses into single images. Basically what I do is use the technique for startrails to blend images into 1 image. You could easily do this in Photoshop. Use Bridge to select all...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Singapore, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Singapore’s Marina Bay area, a timelapse movie + travel tips My timelapse movie Singapore ‘City of Lights’ was shot during a 3 day visit to this island, city and country, all at the same time! This was my second visit here and this time I wanted to focus on capturing...
by Martien Janssen | Travel Blog
LUX Life Award Travel Imagez is proud to announce having received the LUX Life Award: Most Informative Travel & Photography Platform 2020! That is quite a compliment and I’m honoured to receive this recognition. You can find more about the awards and find...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Indonesia, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Bali and the Nusa islands seen from the sky Capturing Bali by drone while flying my Mavic Pro over Bali’s landscape and the Nusa islands: Nusa Penida, – Ceningan and Lembongan. The Nusa islands were lovely, I really enjoyed exploring those, in particual...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Indonesia, Travel Blog
Best trip ever: Bali, Gilis, Lombok, Komodo & Flores When people ask me for travel inspiration, I often start telling them about my 6 week trip to Indonesia, the best trip ever. Or at least, one of! I traveled from Bali all the way to Flores and back and saw some...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Indonesia, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Bali timelapse movie My Bali timelapse ‘Island of Gods’ is a movie of one of my favorite islands. As cliché as Bali might sound (everyone’s visiting Bali these days) it is an island like no other, with gorgeous nature and wonderful landscape, kind people, great food...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Indonesia, Travel Blog, Travel Guides
Visiting the island of Gods, a true little paradise Welcome to my travel guide to Bali, one of my favorite places on the planet. As cliche as Bal might sound, it truly is and remains one of the most fun, friendly and beautiful places on earth. This little island...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Indonesia, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Mt Bromo by drone, volcanos from the sky. Mt Bromo by drone, shot at Java, Indonesia. ‘Bromo’ (just 1 of the volcanos in the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park) had been my nr 1 bucketlist destination for years. I was so excited to be here....
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Indonesia, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Mt Bromo TimeScape: Bromo like you’ve never seen before! Since I started doing timelapses I always tried to think of ways to turn a timelapse scene into a single image. My visit to Mt Bromo seemed the right time and place to finally work on these ideas....
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Indonesia, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Mt Bromo timelapse – Bromo shot from day to night. Mt Bromo timelapse, a movie about one of worlds’ most impressive locations. In this country with most volcanos in the world, none is as scenic and popular as Mt Bromo. It is visited by hundreds...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Philippines, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Four absolute gems of the Philippines. 14 Months in the Philippines, 10 terrabyte of photos and videos, 4 messed up lenses and a broken camera. But boy, I had fun and shot a lot of great footage with my cameras and drone! It sure is ‘More Fun in the...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Philippines, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Flying over Palawan by drone. Palawan by Drone is an aerial movie of one of earth’s most beautiful islands. I spend a month here with my brand new, first ever, drone. Pretty rad to place to fly. I traveled from the very north of Palawan, Coron, to the very...
by Martien Janssen | Americas, Travel Blog, Travel Videos, United States
First trip to the States. My good friend Stuart from Dallas (check out his photos), recently invited me over for a (bit of a crazy) roadtrip from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon and on to the Rocky Mountains. Kinda hard to say no to that, so off we went! In 9 days we...
by Martien Janssen | Americas, Travel Blog, United States
Las Vegas to Rocky Mountains Recently my good buddy Stuart from Dallas invited me for a roadtrip from Las Vegas to the Rocky Mountains. It was a crazy plan, he admit, so I was like ‘Hell Yeah’! We spend 10 days driving from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Visiting worlds’ maddest firework event. It was during my first visit in Myanmar in 2012 that I heard of the Myanmar fire balloon festival. I had just missed it, but heard from a fellow traveler how spectacular and dangerous this event was. This year I was...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Thailand, Travel Blog
Mai Pan Rai Bungalows at Than Sadet beach Mai Pan Rai literally means “no worries” in Thai language, and quite aptly, Mai Pan Rai bungalows is the place to leave behind all negativities and just enjoy the moments being close to nature. It is safe to say that Mai Pan...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Thailand, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Back to my little Thai paradise at Than Sadet, Koh Phangan. After 14 years I finally returned to one of my dearest travel locations – Than Sadet beach at Koh Phangan, Thailand. This little Thai paradise is what I always refer to as my ‘The Beach...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Philippines, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Philippines Scapes timelapse. I went to the Philippines for 4 months to travel the country that had been on my list for so long. 4 Months became 14 months… Instead of explaining why, I think it’s pretty clear what I was up to in that time, if you...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Philippines, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Batad by drone, flying around an amphitheater of rice terraces. The Batad rice terraces in the Philippines are among the most beautiful in the world. And knowing how they were created 2000 years ago by the local Ifugao people, the energy that went into...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Philippines, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Stunning Ifugao-made rice terraces in a Batad timelapse movie. My Batad timelapse movie ‘Queen of Rice Terraces, earns its title. It was one of the highlights during my stay in the Philippines and one of the top destinations for my photography work....
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