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I am both happy and proud to announce that for the third time in four years, I have been chosen among the winners of the annual Grasduinen (now Roots) nature photo competition. My image of a singing male Bluethroat in a pinkish haze of heather was awarded the runner-up position in the Bird category. As […]
Not much time for photography last weekend and, frankly, not much inspiration and motivation. I used the spare time for computer work and processing a backlog of images. So here’s a shot from three weeks ago. This is the Klein Hasselsven in the Leenderbos close to my home. This small fen is of a specal […]
Saturday morning appeared to become the most promising morning of the weekend, photographically speaking that is of course. A wet friday and a cold night are good ingredients for a foggy sunrise. So I went to a large body of water where I had spotted some hundred Lapwings the week before. When I got there, there was only very […]
When my alarm went off around 5 am, I walked to the window, took a short peek and went back to bed. It was drab grey and no sign of a sunrise, so no need to be out early. I had planned to photograph Marsh Gentian (Gentiana pneumonanthe, Klokjesgentiaan) and being the plant they are, […]
Well, not really actually. It was a rather pleasant early morning when I arrived an hour before dawn at a local fen in the middle of a large patch of flowering heather. The day before had been a very wet one and temperature during the night had dropped enough for a foggy morning. There was […]
My third attempt with the foxes was even worse than the second. This time, I did not get to see anything remotely foxy. I had brought a portable hide instead of the camocloth to conceal my every movement. I guess they were just at another location for the morning. Another person told me the foxes […]