Another weekend with only very limited time for photography. Weather forecast was not too bad, so I decided to give landscape photography another try. With my newly acquired set of filters, I went to the local heathland, where I had found a very promising spot fot landscape photography some weeks ago (see Octobers blog). I […]
Weather has been drab and gloomy all weekend. In conditions like these, I normally take the macrolens and look for abstract images in the microworld. Not this time. At the end of last winter season, I got some interesting ideas on the photographic possibilities at my feeding station. These ideas have evolved into actual plans lately. […]
Not much time for photography this weekend, but I did spend lots of time outdoors. I walked through autumn colored beech forests and juniper covered fields on Friday and Sunday. On Saturday, I joined “Natuurwerkdag”, an initiative that attract lots of volunteers that are willing to work a day in the outdoors. And besides, I have an […]
Hanneke and I spent the last few days of October in the UK with the plan of photographing Red Deer during the height of the annual rutting season. On the way back to the ferry, we would visit the seal colony at Donna Nook along the Lincolnshire coast. We spent three days with the Red Deer. Weather […]
The weather forecast for Friday predicted ‘fog, lots of fog’. So inspite of a Thursday night out, I got up early on Friday to photograph a foggy sunrise at the local heathland. When I got there, the sunrise was nothing but very disappointing. Hardly any color in the sky and the fog seemed to have missed […]
Arguably the prettiest of the toadstools to be found in the beech forest must be the Porcelain Fungus. The hoods are very pretty and shiny (hence their name), the underside of the hood is even more beautiful and a treat to the avid macro photographer. I had been looking for these ‘beech babes’ in my […]