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Sometime ago, I received an email from a woman who had visited an exhibition by the VNFE, the nature photographers association in my area. The exhibition featured an image of mine, a pan blur of a flock of Greylag Geese. She explained she was an amateur aquarel artist, was impressed by the photograph and wanted to […]
It’s been a while since my last post, and for a very good reason. Today one week ago, I got up at 5am to visit the kingfishers again, as I expected the chicks to explore the world outside the nest that day. I was just about to leave, when my wife told me she had […]
Last year, I tried to photograph the kingfishers with a wide-angle lens. I had the camera mounted on a tripod in the water and sat under a camocloth with the remote in my hand. Unfortunately, the chicks had fledged the day before and 4 (!) of them sat on a branch not far from my […]
Albeit not a very impressive one, the Dutch Lions gained their second victory at the Worldcup in South Africa. This time, they beat the Japanese squad with 1-0. To be honest, it was one long boring game to watch, and if it had not been the Dutch that played, I would have turned off the […]
My 100th post on this blog since I started in August, 2008. No foxes this week, as the family seem to have moved to a larger residence. I spent 5 hours waiting at the den, but to no avail. A closer inspection of the den showed no fresh prints in the wet sand. Some 50 […]
Mr. Pink: You kill anybody? Mr. White: A few feathers. Mr. Pink: No real birds? Mr. White: Just feathers. Slightly changed quote from the ingenious Quentin Tarantino movie Reservoir Dogs (1992) I went back to the five little gangsters this weekend. When I arrived at 5.30 am, they were already outside the den enjoying the […]