Abstract & Macro
Here’s another one from last week. No time to go out and shoot this week, but alas, the weather wasn’t that great anyway. But great wintery weather is coming our way again. Hopefully next weekend will bring lots of snow and ice! I look forward to spending some time at a new feeding station that […]
Finally time to go out again, and fortunately the world outside was still covered by a beautiful layer of pristine snow. The snow hides all the chaos normally present in a forest and provides the photographer with lots of opportunities for clean landscapes or highkey abstracts. Because I knew I had only one day to […]
Lobende Erwähnung. That’s German for Highly Commended (eervolle vermelding in Dutch) and exactly what my close-up photograph of two tiny mycenae received at the 2010 European Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, organised by the German GDT. I am very happy and proud to be amongst the winners of this year’s competition, as it is widely considered […]
Our camera club had planned a trip to an ancient deciduous forest sometime ago that was to take place this weekend. The goal was to photograph toadstools and/or fungi, which should be available in great numbers and varieties. Much to our surprise, most trees still featured green leaves instead of the explosion of warm hues we had […]
Over the last few weeks, I found lots and lots of toadstools and fungi. They were everywhere and hard to be missed. Last weekend, I finally decided to focus my attention on the fungi and so I went to my favorite nearby fungal forest. You can imagine I was unhappily surprised when it appeared that […]
Finally a chance to give the indexfinger some relief. A friend took me to several small patches of wet grassland close to home, carefully managed by a nature conservancy organisation. These meadows don’t look like much to the untrained eye, but all kinds of insects surely know how to appreciate this habitat. It was just […]