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Winter’s finally there and boy have I been enjoying it. I spent most of the weekend outside photographing landscapes that I normally pass without even giving them a glance. Everything just looks so much better when covered under a layer of ice and snow. My weekend started with 5 hours of waiting in a small […]
The weekend did not bring the promised frost yet, but at least the weather was acceptable and I had a clear photographic goal in mind. I spent two mornings with a flock of Bewick’s Swans (Cygnus bewickii, Kleine Zwaan). Their number fluctuates but hovers around a hundred individuals when they spend the night in relative […]
Here’s one from a week ago, as the terrible weather kept me inside during the whole of last weekend. This one was taken one afternoon when the sky looked promising. I expected a nice sunset and found some time to go out. The big mistake I made was to head for a location I did […]
Finally some luck with the timing. For the first time in ages, last Friday featured a wonderful sunrise. It was a short one, because the clouds came in right after the colors put on some decent hue and saturation. But alas, at least we got some color. After the recent rains, the water level has […]
To the left is my first and only photograph taken in 2012 and it perfectly represents the nature of the current winter, if one could call it a winter at all. Dark, gloomy, rainy, windy, mild. In Dutch we would call this a ‘kwakkelwinter’, a sickly winter. All this darkness could well be a herald […]
A last-minute contribution to the blog. Around the holidays, I have hardly been out with the camera, the weather not being particularly inviting for a stint with the camera. I went out one grey morning to photograph swans at their take off to the foraging grounds. When I arrived, still in darkness, they were already […]