About the webmaster     This website is the creation and property of Jochen Gielen and all the photos are copyright protected and should not be reproduced or published without first consulting the webmaster.   Jochen Gielen is a Belgian Adventurer and Photographer specialised in Maritime Photography. Altough he was born and raised in Zonhoven wich is located about 80 km from Antwerp and 200 km from the nearest sea, he has a big interest in Oceanliners, Cruiseships, Lighthouses and Lightships. His photographic hobby started with animals and holidays at the age of 6 but off course the cheap equipment was not up to the job and as time went on he joined the local Photography Society and changed equipment, evolving to the present allround photographer specialised in Maritime Photography but still often going back to travel and wildlife photography and still expanding his equipment. His other passion has always been off-road 4x4 driving and traveling the world, this combined with photography resulted in this website. I also have to thank some people for the realisation of this site in one way or another, first of all I thank all of my friends and my parents and sister for support, second thanks to Louy Lative (made photo 3), John Turner and John Dockray for the English trips, Onno Heesbeen (made photo 4) for the Dutch trips (all on the second photo), third  to all the members of 2 groups I belong to, Cruisetalk and Fotoclub de Teut. I know I left many of you out but I thank everyone who in some way helped me with my work showed here.