Now that our babygirl has reached the age of three weeks, our life is slowly getting back on track and I can start thinking about photography again. I went out twice over the weekend because I really wanted to photograph the heather in full bloom. I have been photographing this small area for a […]
Over and over, I find myself going back to the same local spots. It has taken me several years to really get to know the area and discover vantage points that are able to deliver good landscape photographs when the conditions are right. I learnt from my mistakes the hard way when I went to new […]
No time for photography with a newborn in the house, so here’s one from a week ago. Together with a friend, we found a place along a local stream where a male Kingfisher would often perch for a while to wash, preen and rest. The spot was very difficult to access with dense reeds […]
A while ago I mentioned that I had found a sounder of Wild Boar (Sus scrofa, Wild Zwijn) in an area close to home where I had not expected them at all. Now, some weeks later, I have found out that there are many more where they came from, and even more at other […]
Having been very fortunate with my choice of early mornings lately, things were bound to turn for the worst sooner than later and that’s exactly what happened last weekend. On Friday, I got out of bed at 4.30, only to step out the door and be greeted by 21 degrees Celcius and a flat and bland sky. […]
As famous Spanish poet Enrique Iglesias beautifully put in words: you can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape my love. Little did I know back then in 2001 that the song, featuring Russian doe Anna Kournikova in the video, was all about the Roe Deer rutting season. Now I do. I mentioned in my previous post that after […]