Our website is completely renewed. Over 50 functionalities have been added. Especially the lightbox possibilities have been improved a lot. Another eyecathing change is the color search. More information about the working of this function will follow soon.

If you have alreadyan user account, you can use this existing account.

Buiten-Beeld delivered a substantial amount of picture for a special production of "Natuurmonumenten", the biggest nature protection organisation of the Netherlands. Hundreds of nature areas are described, with routes, maps and beautiful pictures.

We congratulate Natuurmonumenten with this beautiful edition!

For the year 2011 Buiten-Beeld sponsors BNO, the major Dutch designers collective. Members of BNO distinghuish themselves by their authentic way of designing and the way photgraphy is used. We want to support this by way of sponsoring them and look forward to a fruitful cooperation.

The showcases are renewed. Not only are there lots of images added to existing showcases, but there are many showcases added as well. During the year we will keep adding new showcases.A special showcase is the one with concept images. Distinctive nature photos that can be broadly deployed. Click here to view this showcase.

Ron Offermans is the Dutch Champion underwater photographer with photos of the Zeeland underwater world. In total there were 92 participants in the open NK, including a large number of Belgian and German underwater photographers.Since last year, Buiten-Beeld represents the pictures of Ron Offen. A showcase of some of his photos can be found here. Ron's portfolio includes mainly fish and other animals from the Zeeland delta.A special collection of abstract colorful underwater images can be viewed via this link.

At 5 september “Dorrestijns Natureguide” was presented at Manuscripta Amsterdam; the opening of the book season.Dorrestijns Natureguide is a collection of texts, poems and anecdotes, in which Hans Dorrestijn gives his unique and sometimes hilarious vision on the European fauna. He would have liked to describe all beautiful, funny and crazy animals in this book, but the amount was too big. Dorrestijn made a personal choice of the fauna of Europe.

Buiten-Beeld supplied all (over 500) photos for this book. Previously Buiten-Beeld delivered all photos for Dorrestijn Bird Guide. Partly because of the appealing photographs, this book became a real bestseller.

Dorrestijns Nature guide has 272 pages and for sale in any Dutch bookstore.

Last week the barrier of 100.000 pictures was broken. All images are immediately hires available.

Buiten-Beeld is one of the fastest growing nature picture libraries: every day hundreds of quality pictures are added to our database.

Our nature picture library grows. For this reason, the 'back' of the website has been thoroughly revised and updated. There is a completely new database structure, which brings back full speed to the search function. The waiting period after a search has been reduced to less than 0.5 seconds. This makes searching through our database fun!

At the end of June 2009, UNESCO, the United Nations organization for nature and culture, placed the Wadden Sea on the World Heritage List. This puts the Wadden Sea on the same footing as other world famous natural wonders on the World Heritage List like the Grand Canyon in the USA and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

The Wadden Sea World Heritage Site encompasses the Dutch and German parts of the Wadden Sea. It covers an area of almost 10,000 square kilometres along a coastal strip about 400 kilometres long.

Pieter de Vries is specialized in aerial photography of the Wadden. His archive consists of thousands of aerial pictures as well from the Dutch part as of the German and Danish part. Click here for a showcase of some pictures of the Wadden Sea. In the coming months we will add hundreds of new aerial pictures. If you cannot wait for this, please contact us and tell us what you are looking for.