Well, actually we found way more than 40 Banded Darters (Sympetrum pedemontanum; Bandheidelibel) and I am not suggesting I even remotely resemble Ali Baba. But sometimes these blog titles just seem to come to me in a natural way and I write them down without giving them any further consideration. Maybe I should change that from […]
July to me is the time of the dragonflies, damselflies and other waterbound insects. I usually start a summers day of photography with landscapes at some spot in the heathland. Those are the only open areas to be found in my neck of the woods and because of the many fens, chances for misty conditions […]
My photographic climate usually has its ups and downs during the year and it seems I am currently experiencing a small recession. I started spring with a wealth of possible subjects and a lack of time to cover them all, but somehow they managed to one by one evade the camera and now I have […]
King Winter has finally returned from his pensionado winterbreak and gone are the luke-warm temperatures, grey skies and daily liters of rain that we had to deal with for so long. Temperatures have dropped below zero and the air is crisp. Time to put on warm clothes and venture outside. And so I did. I […]
During our week at sea, we were not really spoiled with an abundance of autumn colors. Only a few trees and shrubs in the dunes had put on their most colorful coats, but vegetation is sparse along the coast, so they were lone dissonants in an otherwise dullish landscape. From checking the internet every […]
Early mornings last weekend were not really what I had hoped for. Saturday was cloudy and grey with the sun only peeking through later on in the morning. Sunday was equally boring with a cloudless light blue sky. The little layer of ground fog was only a small comfort. Sunsets however cheered me up […]