Abstract & Macro
The idea was to go to my favourite location again and see what the sunrise would bring this time. Well, not a lot. The sky was cloudless and thus featureless, with only a small orange band above the treeline some 45 minutes before sunrise. The small amount of fog had gone before I could say […]
Yesterday saw the whole country celebrate the birthday of our current Queen on the day of birth of our previous Queen. Don’t even ask. I used the elongated weekend to do some much needed paint jobs in and around the house. And yes, I even painted one wall in our house orange. Not that […]
A beautiful morning was predicted, so with good hopes I went to a tiny nature reserve with (very) wet grasslands. In summer, one can find orchids and lots of insects there. In early spring, it’s a good place for True Oxlip (Primulia elatior, Slanke Sleutelbloem). I had plans to silhouette the translucent flowers against […]
It’s that time of year again. Last year I missed the spectacle of the male Moorfrogs (Rana arvalis, Heikikker) turning loud and blue because I was in Iceland. No travel plans this time so I really hoped the short spawning period would somehow overlap with the weekend. And it did. From the local forester, I […]
Same sh$t, different week! Again the Friday morning was the worst of the week. The only thing those grey skies are any good for, is to take a white balance reading from. So I did not shoot anything worthwile this weekend. To make matters worse, when I went to check on a forest feeder I […]
After the rainy days of last week, fungi really seem to pop up like daisies. The ones from two weeks ago have rapidly faded and returned to their soily underground residences, but new ones abound. I had teamed up with fellow photographer Wilco Dragt to spend the day with fungus photography. The first few hours […]