Landscapes
Here’s one from a week ago, as the terrible weather kept me inside during the whole of last weekend. This one was taken one afternoon when the sky looked promising. I expected a nice sunset and found some time to go out. The big mistake I made was to head for a location I did […]
Finally some luck with the timing. For the first time in ages, last Friday featured a wonderful sunrise. It was a short one, because the clouds came in right after the colors put on some decent hue and saturation. But alas, at least we got some color. After the recent rains, the water level has […]
To the left is my first and only photograph taken in 2012 and it perfectly represents the nature of the current winter, if one could call it a winter at all. Dark, gloomy, rainy, windy, mild. In Dutch we would call this a ‘kwakkelwinter’, a sickly winter. All this darkness could well be a herald […]
As usual, the Friday morning was the worst part of the week weather-wise. The one part of the weekend that was planned to be devoted to photography featured a gloomy grey sky. No clear and frosty skies or heavy fog like all other days had been during the week and weekend. I glanced through the […]
It seems we’re in a transitional period. Last weekend, temperatures were relatively mild, with full sun and still colorful leaves on the treebranches. Today, when writing this, temperatures have plummeted below zero, the ground is white from frost and many trees have lost their last vegetation. Weather experts have warned for a horror winter: ice and […]
Since I became a father last year, my style of photography has changed. Previously, I would mainly focus on birds and mammals and would spend hours and hours in a small hide. If the subject did not show up, or the photos were not up to standard, I would just return the next morning and […]