No time to go out and photograph this weekend, lots of household chores to do, as well as a quickstart to the annual springcleaning. So here’s one from last week. Back then, temperatures rose to double digits for the first time, a sure sign that the annual Toad migration would be on the verge of […]
It’s that time of year again. From the middle of March on, when temperatures rise into the double digits and the air is a bit moist, male Moor Frogs come into heat. Thanks to an ingenious physical process, their bodies take on a beautiful blue color. Moreover, the males make plopping sounds. Imagine hundreds of people opening bottles […]
The ice age is coming to an end, at least for this year. Only the nights and early mornings can still be very cold. The result is a tiny layer of remaining ice on small bodies of still water, like rainwater that cannot drain into the earth because of the still partly frozen ground. This […]
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 […]
Although it is still very dry and the heavy autumnal rains are yet to come, in several local forests it is hard not to find any fungi and toadstools. I went to a mixed beech and oak forest on Friday, and a mostly coniferous forest on Saturday. Both yielded huge amounts of fungi, but both […]
This abstract image of a grainfield was a nice sidecatch to a morning spent on roe deer. The spikes looked wonderful, almost like thousands of little flames, against the light of the mid-morning sun. The light had gotten already too harsh for roe deer images, so I decided to take a go at the grainfield. […]