Birds

August and september always seem to be a difficult time for the photographer in me. Breeding season is over, as is the roe deer rut, and it is still way too early for feeding stations and fungi. Which means I have to think hard what to photograph, or just go out without a true photographic plan […]

In my post of July 29, I mentioned that I planned to visit the kingfisher site in hopes of a third brood. Well, I did so last week and to my relief, I found two very busy parents and some noisy chicks in a (new) pipe in the breeding wall. I did not get any useful images […]

Maybe I should visit a doctor, as since a few days, I have been experiencing this strange, itchy feeling in my righthand indexfinger that just does not want to go away. I tried a coolpack, insectbite medicine and even gave the finger a few days absolute rest. Nothing seems to help though. It even gets […]

Sometime ago, I received an email from a woman who had visited an exhibition by the VNFE, the nature photographers association in my area. The exhibition featured an image of mine, a pan blur of a flock of Greylag Geese. She explained she was an amateur aquarel artist, was impressed by the photograph and wanted to […]

Last year, I tried to photograph the kingfishers with a wide-angle lens. I had the camera mounted on a tripod in the water and sat under a camocloth with the remote in my hand. Unfortunately, the chicks had fledged the day before and 4 (!) of them sat on a branch not far from my […]

Albeit not a very impressive one, the Dutch Lions gained their second victory at the Worldcup in South Africa. This time, they beat the Japanese squad with 1-0. To be honest, it was one long boring game to watch, and if it had not been the Dutch that played, I would have turned off the […]