020 | Camping for Jamie Oliver magazine.

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It was an honour to be asked to take photos for Jamie magazine, the best part about this is that once you've photographed the beautiful food you get to eat it after was Bonus! (we're now a big fan of edible photo shoots) The goal was to take 9 photos of dishes that you could prepare on a camp sight (no canned beans and sausages) it was simple honest food with big flavours. We had dream team on hand who made the shoot a tasty success. Eddy Frings was in charge of set-styling and knew exactly what was needed to create an idyllic camp site setting and Ingmar Niezen's food styling wowed our eyes and our stomachs. Thanks to Diewertje van Wering this delicious spread is now off to the press, we're looking forward to seeing it on paper. Thanks for the behind the scenes photos Diewertje!

015 | Mystic Summer Collection shoot in Saint Lucia.

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We've been part of the Mystic photo shoots for many years already. After going to Morocco, Spain, Norway and Greece it was time to get more tropical. Virgin Air helped out with tickets and we flew to Saint Lucia, a tropic island in the Caribbean with a Jamaican touch. For this collection we decided to do it all a little different. We came up with a surrealistic scene together with Deepthought Productions. This is the latest campaign Hugo Happel and I created for Mystic, shot on the beautiful Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Our briefing was to create a concept completely different from Mystic's previous campaigns, and decided to put more time and effort in each photo setting, compared to documenting the whole trip like we did on previous shoots.

Mystic is one of the world's most well-known and progressive brands active in kitesurfing and windsurfing. I’ve been working with the brand since 2007 together with Hugo Happel back then under the name 11AM. Our collaboration started with their new website at the time, which turned into keeping the website updated year-round, getting involved in their marketing strategy, setting up and managing their social media channels, creating campaigns and concepts for new collections, and art direction at photoshoots. The projects shown here are Mystic's campaign photo shoots we created and directed over the past few years. On these shoots we always work together with our good friends of Deep Thought Productions.

013 | Nominated for Stocksy's Best Lifestyle Photographer of the year.

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Stocksy United is a 'new generation' stock photography website that Denni is proudly part of, and they will be throwing an online award show to celebrate their first birthday. The award ceremony consists of many different categories in which people can vote for their favourite photographers, and Denni happens to be nominated for 'Best Lifestyle Photographer' of the year! Denni: "I feel so honoured to be nominated, but winning this thing is going to be so difficult when you're up against Kevin Russ, Gary Radler, Melanie Defazio, Joselito Briones, KKGAS, Matteo Colombo, Luke + Mallory Leasure." Let's wait and see...

011 | Greece for the Mystic 2013 summer shoot.

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After a lot of preparation and deciding where the next Mystic photo shoot would be we took off for Greece where an old wooden sailboat would be waiting for us. The boat called Sally would show us including the people form the Mystic HQ, Deepthought Productions and worlds best kite and windsurfers over the deep blue waters of Greece. To get a realistic feeling of an boat trip in search for the best spots there was only one way to go and that was to do it our self and document it and have fun. This campaign was the summer part of the 'One Season' campaign we started with the winter season shoot prior to this shoot. We spent this shoot on a sailing boat in the seas around Greece, and together with teamriders Youri Zoon, Boujmaa Guilloul, Ruben Lenten, Taty Frans, Bruna, Bruna Kajiya and Marc Jacobs we searched for the best winds in the spring/summer part of the 'One Season' campaign.

010 | One season in Ice cold Norway.

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Together with Hugo Happel (11AM) we took of for Norway to shoot the Mystic 2012 winter collection in extreme weather conditions. Snowstorms, 30+ knots of wind and temperatures below 0 where the conditions we had to deal with but with the right clothes and a smiles it was easier done then said! We came up with he ONE SEASON campaign, did the art direction and captured it together with Deepthought Productions.

008 | Summer shoot for Mystic in Spain.

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A different approach for a pretty radical kite and windsurfing brand was needed and required by Mystic. This shoot needed to come out more playful, colourful, sexy and fun compared to the brand image they carried over previous years, but also it still needed to be windy and edgy enough. So we created a lot of different settings, got a giant wind machine, and set foot in a new direction.

007 | Dark side of the lens.

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An oldie but the same beautiful message and dreamy imagery.

006 | JR: Use art to turn the world inside out.

French street artist JR uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED 2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out. www.insideoutproject.net

005 | Empty and dry coastlines.

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The first shoot we got to join (this was back in 2010) brought us to dusty Morocco, guided by Mystic rider and Moroccan local Boujmaa Guilloul. It wasn't easy; all camera gear got taken in by border patrol and our filmer got too sick to leave the house for most of the days we were there, but we still managed to squeeze out a pretty good result that we used to promote the 2011 Mystic summer collection. I joined the Mystic team on a photo shoot trip to Essaouira, Morocco for the photography of the 2011 product collection as the Art Director. The team was guided by Moroccan local and Mystic team rider Boujmaa Guilloul.

001 | Insights creative minds.

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Insight gathered some pro surfers, photographer Dustin Humphrey, and headed for Bali. Such an iconic what a lot of surfer remember as a game changer for the scene.