My name is Isabelle Plasschaert. I am an event and corporate photographer working mostly in London. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-26220454-1’]); _gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]); (function() { var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true; ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘http://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();Tumblr (3.0; @isabelleplass)http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5712dUBwb1qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Jubilee. Jubilation. Celebration.</p> <p>After watching the concert from our sofa on Monday, we felt left out and decided to also experience some of the atmosphere in the heart of London. Around midday, we wondered up from Westminster, found a spot by the Cenotaph and were happy to see the queen waiving at the crowds from her car. Glad we had been part of it, we went for a spot of lunch at Inn The Park in St James’s Park. Had a gorgeous hake with pea puree, nom nom, a coffee, paid. We strolled up to the mall, where by that stage, it was getting very busy. We stood by the road, behind the barriers, heard cheers but didn’t see a thing. We had a sense the Queen had driven past in a horse drawn carriage, but couldn’t be entirely sure until we checked the footage on our phones.</p> <p>We hung around for a bit, waited fruitlessly at the Buckingham Palace end for the police to open the barriers. We decided to wander back, noticed a gap in the barriers, surged through (yes, not cool) and joined the crowds towards the palace. We shuffled along, laughing at our fortune. The national anthem resounded all around us, people delirious with excitement, joy and some with booze.  Shuffle shuffle we went. Ended up in front of where the day before we had seen the concert on TV. Happy to be at the centre, we came to a halt. But that wasn’t the end. We shuffled along, could now see the Royal Box. We laughed. But even that was not the end. We shuffled and shuffled until we were right in front of the Palace, right in the centre, in front of the balcony. To top it all off, TV camera’s caught us waving like proper royalists, yes there we were. The Queen and family came out onto the balcony, cheers went up. I wondered what to do next . She looked at us, we looked at her. Some gunshots went off. Some explosions. I wolf whistled at the Queen in the end and laughed to myself at the absurdity of it. She turned back, we left, shuffled along with the crowds, wet from the rain, but happy with the whole unexpected experience.</p>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/24533955632http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/24533955632Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:25:00 +0100jubileediamondroyal boxbalconybuckingham palacequeen<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m53ivt9pSq1qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m53ivt9pSq1qco9s4o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m53ivt9pSq1qco9s4o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Diamond Jubilee Festivities at Ally Pally. </p>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/24402067806http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/24402067806Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:59:50 +0100jubileequeendiamondplasschaertphotographerphotographyevent<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m53hphjiLW1qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m53hphjiLW1qco9s4o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/24401289429http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/24401289429Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:34:00 +0100jubileediamondqueenallypallyalexandra palaceunion jackplasschaertphotographerphotographyeventpartylondon<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ko19jSw71qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ko19jSw71qco9s4o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ko19jSw71qco9s4o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ko19jSw71qco9s4o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Went looking for an older Caribbean man in Harlesden for a potential book-cover, but ended up Instagramming the area, on the hottest day of the year so far.</p> <p>I didn’t find my man, yet !</p>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/23726357229http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/23726357229Fri, 25 May 2012 10:36:00 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2pyy6b2Kv1qco9s4o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Going in was a shock to the system !<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2pyy6b2Kv1qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/21374218006http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/21374218006Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:13:00 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ozi6zU9g1qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Barbara J Zitwer, author of Ladies’ Swimming Society</p>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/21338526217http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/21338526217Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:27:42 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ot7guoi71qco9s4o8_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ot7guoi71qco9s4o1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ot7guoi71qco9s4o2_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ot7guoi71qco9s4o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ot7guoi71qco9s4o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>It’s was cold at the Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond in Hampstead today. I was there for the  book launch of Barbara J Zitwer’s : Ladies’ Swimming Society. The story had been inspired after Barbara stumbled upon the Ladies pond in Hampstead, some five years ago.</p> <p>I was shivering and didn’t even get near getting undressed. Brave girls !!</p>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/21332322279http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/21332322279Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:11:00 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2j22s56KZ1qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/21149624638http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/21149624638Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:37:39 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2j1ze2JTe1qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A father at the wedding of his eldest daughter, admiring the beautiful setting of Westminster Abbey.</p>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/21149520471http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/21149520471Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:35:38 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2d8x12mSq1qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>March was filled with summer and food somehow. I did a mouthwatering shoot for Marcia Barrington, a catering company. I also sweated at this BBQ in Camden, feeling a little sorry for the hog roast. </p> <p>It’s raining buckets out there as I type this and it all seems a lifetime ago already…</p>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/20960740407http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/20960740407Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:19:48 +0100foodphotographylondonplasschaertisabelleisabelleplassphotographer<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz8l68woUe1qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz8l68woUe1qco9s4o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz8l68woUe1qco9s4o6_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/17429399768http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/17429399768Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:15:00 +0000<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz8l26YNvB1qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz8l26YNvB1qco9s4o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz8l26YNvB1qco9s4o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Frozen Bruges</p>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/17429280937http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/17429280937Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:13:00 +0000<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyf48gQDBl1qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I really like this spontaneous family picture ! I covered this couple’s wedding and now, five years later, this is them, at their home, with three year old Ava !</p>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/16529098942http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/16529098942Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:19:00 +0000<a href="http://www.supersweetparties.co.uk/isabelleplass#.Txbro3ywxrs.tumblr">Isabelle Plasschaert Photography | Super Sweet Parties</a>: <p>I just joined Super Sweet Parties ! A great website directory for people in the events industry.</p>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/16064088535http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/16064088535Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:57:10 +0000<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzxbqw2Y31qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> The Millennium Dome waving at me<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzxbqw2Y31qco9s4o2_500.jpg"/><br/> London City Airport is close by<br/><br/> http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/16060202892http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/16060202892Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:26:00 +0000dlrolympicslondon2012photographyplasschaert<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzwxkzFlI1qco9s4o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzwxkzFlI1qco9s4o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><span>London 2012 is here. </span></p> <div></div> <div>It meant so much when we, yes WE, won the bid back in July 2005. Mayor Ken Livingstone truly made me feel part of the city in his victory speech. I became a Londoner that day. I had lived here for about 4 years by then and was convinced I would always be a foreigner, a Belgian. I was wrong. London is made up of people who bring foreign habits, molding this ever changing pulsating city.  <div>2012 seemed an eternity away. </div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div> <div></div> <div>The very next morning, July 7th, London slowly woke up to the shocking realisation that the city had fallen victim to a group of suicide bombers.  The jumping joy we had seen on Trafalgar Square the day before was faintly lingering but flipped to fear, chaos and desperation in an instant. Still, I felt<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>we</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>had been targeted. Me and my city. And we would not be defeated, but pull together.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div> <div><br/>Docklands Light Railway (DLR) hired me last week to take pictures of the recently extended and refurbished rail system. It struck me how vast this city is. How fast it changes and grows. Whizzing past building site after building site, there is no sign of recession here. Big parts of the DLR extension still look muddy and messy. From my seat on the train, I could see an army of men in yellow fluorescent jackets, operating cranes, burrowing their way through the earth, fulfilling their part of the major task that is getting ready for the Olympics. Observing all this activity, from the slightly elevated distance of the DLR trains, made me feel like a tourist from outer space. What I saw, was teaching me about the ingenuity of man. </div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div>I can’t believe there are parts of London I have never been in the eleven years I’ve lived here. The ‘millennium Dome’ waves at me from a distance, the residents of the Wetland Centre fly overhead, the sales at Westfield Shopping Centre in Stratford are pulling me over, descending planes remind me we have a London City Airport. </div> <div></div> <div>London is a living thing, a being with a complex personality, emotions and tons of ambition.</div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div>I love London.</div> <div></div> <div></div> </div> <div></div> <div></div> </div>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/16060018084http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/16060018084Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:17:00 +0000<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwgt225Huw1qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My work can be so much fun……</p>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/14465777313http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/14465777313Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:06:01 +0000<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw3x73rUY91qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This is my favourite picture of the day. I sums up the entire afternoon. Amen.</p>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/14127421064http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/14127421064Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:06:39 +0000<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw3x5fZ7jY1qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw3x5fZ7jY1qco9s4o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw3x5fZ7jY1qco9s4o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/14127383700http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/14127383700Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:05:39 +0000<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw3x1wGx651qco9s4o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw3x1wGx651qco9s4o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/14127297819http://isabelleplass.tumblr.com/post/14127297819Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:03:32 +0000