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.

Recently some outstanding photographers joined our photo agency. We will introduce them briefly.

Recently, some Buiten-Beeld photographers won prices at several international photo competitions. Han Bouwmeester won the second price in the Americal National Wildlife competition 2008. Theo Bosboom, who recently joined Buiten-Beeld and already won prestigious prices, got a 'highly recommended' in the German GDT photocompetition. Finally, Wendy Kreeftenberg won the Belgian portfolioprice in the Argus photocompetition, she is the most promising young photographer of 2008.

During the birdfair in the Oostvaardersplassen at 23 and 24 august, Buiten-Beeld will be represented with a stand.. During the birdfair it is possible to obtain large canvasprints with photo's from Buiten-Beeld. With a high-end photoprinter from HP we will print live. Every visitor who hands over a file with his own picture, receives a A3+ print for free! See you at stand 104.

Top photographer Ruben Smit joins Buiten-Beeld. He has won important awards in major photo competitions. In 2002 he became European Nature Photographer of the year in the category 'Man & Nature'. In 2005 he achieved the first prize in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the year in the category "Animal behaviour". His photographic style is recognized as innovative, as he loves to play with 'out of focus' and add atmosphere to each picture. As an ecologist he is able to show the specific ecosystems of specific species with his pictures. Click here to see his portfolio at Buiten-Beeld.