Abstract & Macro
The weekend was spent with the family in a nice little cottage amidst beautiful surroundings. Of course the camera was part of the inventory, but I only took shots of people, mainly our wonderful 1-year old daughter. I won’t litter the blog with family snapshots, so here’s another fungus photograph from last week. Yet again […]
An awkward cold got the better of me, so I decided to be wise for once and get some rest during the weekend. I did not go out to photograph, hence I present an image I shot some three weeks ago. Spoon-leafed Sundew (Drosera intermedia, Kleine Zonnedauw) are interesting little plants. Not only because of their […]
With the weather not looking very promising for landscape photography and most of the heather being way beyond looking best, I took the macro set and went to look for Meadow Saffron (Colchicum autumnale, Herfsttijloos). Like last year, I found them just two days after heavy weather, so most of the flowers were in relatively […]
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 […]