I'm Esther Ruiterman; photographer, blogger, traveller and creative thinker. Interests are: marketing, visual design, travel, photography, skiing and more.
I guess I will be missed. Got this cute message from my 11 year old niece. Bibi: When you go to Australia and I break my leg, will you come back?? Me: I’m not going to Australia Bibi: Really? Yes !! Did you change your mind? Yayy, you’ll stay in the Netherlands YESSS!!! Me: I’m…
What do you remember 10 years from now? The trip you made or the job you kept?
Having vacation days to spare and wanting to go somewhere before my big trip resulted in visiting Berlin for a few days. I had absolutely no idea what to expect from this city. In my mind it was a grey bloomy city. But Berlin surprised me with its unique modern architecture and small courtyards; I…
Got my first 3 shots of vaccinations. I was a bit nervous (also thanks to my colleagues) and due to the fact that I almost fainted the last time I had a needle in me. This time I decided to be smart and look away. After the first one I thought; mmh, this isn’t so…
Last Monday my American sister Colleen finally came to Europe for the first time and brought her friend Maia. They had less than 2 days to explore Amsterdam and it was up to me to be the designated tour guide. We started at the Albert Cuyp market to the Heineken Experience, got the best apple…
Time passes by fast and slow at the same time. I can’t believe it’s already been over 2 months since my “6 months to go” post. On the other hand, it’s starting to get more real now. I’m thinking about all the fun and scary things that might happen. A bit afraid that I don’t…
Backpacking with a heavy DSLR or not? I’ve been pondering for a while about that. I’ll be travelling alone and I got the time to actually stop to make some decent shots. Something that is not always the case when you’re travelling with company that wants to go along while you want to wait for…
Travelling is fun. But at times you have to appreciate the things you’ve got at home. Boating through the canals of Amsterdam with Seb and friends on a lovely summer Sunday is great fun. The boat Me enjoying the sun and the city
In exactly half a year from now I’ll be starting my journey to the Far East. Let the countdown begin.
Since I’m going to take lots of photos with my Canon 5DII on my trip, I do need some storage to save all my RAW files. The Media Markt had 32GB USB sticks on sale, so I immediately got 4 🙂 With 128GB of storage I should have a sufficient amount of space for those…