by Martien Janssen | Asia, Indonesia, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
My Bali Timelapse Quadrilogy is a set of 4 different timelapse videos, using different techniques of slicing (TimeSlice), blending (BlendScape) and mirroring (MirrorScape) my images. I just love how I can take the same photo realistic scene and capture a different...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Indonesia, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Bali, the island of dreams, with its incredible culture, people, and landscape. Who wouldn’t want to spend a while visiting this gorgeous and fascinating tropical green island, right? I was so fortunate to be in Bali during the lockdown, of all places. It messed up my...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Indonesia, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Eyes of the Garuda is the last video project I got to work on with my beloved Mavic Pro. A word of thanks to my drone. Thank you so much for all your amazing footage and the good times we had. You have been one of my best buddies during my travels throughout Southeast...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Indonesia, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
The Bali monsoon season is known for wind, rather than crazy storms or much rain. During the Covid lockdown we had the wettest, longest monsoon season in many years, lasting for most of a year. Weeks would pass barely showing the sun. Tough times to shoot and many...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Indonesia, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
When I was in Bali during the lockdown, I spent a full year driving around the island shooting my videos and this Mt Agung & Batur timelapse & drone movie. Mt Agung at 3031m can be seen from most of the island, decorating the view and forming a lovely backdrop...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Indonesia, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Nusa Penida, southeast of Bali (Indonesia) is an incredible island with mad rock formations and cliffs. There are beautiful views and beaches all around, but it sure takes a bit of effort getting down there and back up! I got to spend 12 very rainy days here during...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Indonesia, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
I’ve been to every corner in Bali and if I’d have to name my top 3 favorite rice fields in Bali, it would be Jatiluwi, Tegallalang (but escape the crowds by coming at sunrise) and the beautiful, rather unknown Berina rice terraces. As to be expected from...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Shadowland timelapse movie. Shadowland is the third movie of my Bagan timelapse pentalogy. This 8,5 minute long timelapse journey shows you Bagan during the different light of day. Starting at sunrise and ending at night, this movie takes you along my journey as I...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Rogue Storm timelapse movie. ROGUE STORM is the second movie of my Bagan timelapse pentalogy. The movie is built around a rare night with 3 lightning storms passing over Bagan. In this dry zone very little rain falls, even in monsoon season. The chance of capturing a...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Flying over Bagan drone movie. Flying over Bagan captures countless of the many temples of Bagan, Myanmar. Shot in both monsoon season and dry season over the course of 11 weeks during 3 visits in 20 months time. I was there mainly for my timelapse pentalogy and had...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Dimension Reflection timelapse movie. Dimension Reflection is the fifth and final movie in my Bagan timelapse pentalogy. This movie explores the realms of reflections, using 2, 4, 8 and 16 reflections. To add to the surreal effect of it all I used my blending...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
TimeBlend timelapse movie. TimeBlend is the fourth movie of my Bagan timelapse pentalogy. It’s a ‘creative timelapse movie’ of Bagan using a blending technique to capture the element of time. By blending images from the timelapse sequence with each other, I aim to...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Shadow of a Dynasty timelapse movie. Shadow of a Dynasty is the first and main movie of my Bagan timelapse pentalogy, using (motion controlled) timelapse, hyperlapse and dronelapse. The movie shows you one of worlds’ most incredible man-built locations as it still...
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, 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 | 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, 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 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 | 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, 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...
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