An Evening with Nautical Shooter Onne van der Wal
Monday, January 25, 2016, 7 pm
Newton Free Library, 330 Homer Street, Newton, MA 02459
Description:
Onne
will show how he makes a living at shooting and filming in the world of
nautical imagery. From commercial advertising assignments for boat
builders and regatta sponsors to magazine work and travel and expedition
stories Onne has done it all. He will also show a few short videos he
has produced plus explain how important this medium has been for his
clients and his career.
Bio:
Onne
has spent his whole life on the water, initially sailing on small
dinghies with family in Holland and South Africa and later racing large
ocean going sailboats as a professional crew member. Onne's start to
photography came about while racing on the Whitbread Round the World
Race on Flyer as a crew member who happened to bring along a camera. The
boat won the 1981-82 race, and being the bowman Onne would regularly be
at the top of the mast or the tip of the spinnaker pole doing his
sailors duties but also taking a few images. The images he captured from
these unique angles put his name on the map and on the cover of every
sailing magazine worldwide. This was the start of a very successful
career of shooting sailing. Onne hung up his sailing boots in 1987 and
started his nautical photography business in Newport, RI, a town that is
steeped in sailing history and is the heart and capital of sailing and
racing in the US today. Onne's work has appeared on and in every major
sailing publication world wide and he has shot commercially for just
about every boat builder in the US. His photography adventures have
taken him to as close as a sailboat can get to both icy poles, and all
the tropical cruising destinations in between. He is regarded as one of
the top nautical shooters worldwide and now lives across the water from
Newport in Jamestown, RI. Since 2005 Onne has been of the elite group of
photographers known as the Canon Explorers of Light.
Onne’s website is http://www.vanderwal.com.
This event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by:
Canon Explorers of Light
Boston Camera Club
Newton Camera Club
