Mammals

Back home from a fantastic week in the Masai Mara. It was to be the trip of a lifetime and the place surely lived up to its name. Pure magic. The fantastic Masai driver/guide placed us right on the action every single time. We got to see lions on a kill several times, mating lions […]

After not having touched the camera for nearly three weeks, I was anxious to go out again. With the Red Deer (Cervus elaphus; Edelhert) rutting season in full throttle, I decided to give them a try. Not in National Park Hoge Veluwe, where on a good day 500 to 600 photographers and other tourists aim […]

About a month ago, I revisited the badger sett that gave me so much fun in June last year. I figured that if I were to visit a month earlier, the foliage would be less dense and I would have more light to work with. Which in turn would allow me to focus more on […]

My photography hours over the last week have all been spent underneath a camo cloth, my foxburka. The only time of the year I tend to use it is in spring and I only use it at fox dens. I had promised myself not to let spring go by unnoticed this year, because of too frantic a search and […]

At last, spring has figured out the route to our country and now nature can go about its regular business for this time of the year: bloom, blossom and florish! While most photographers may have gone searching for blue Moorfrogs, delicate flowers, displaying songbirds or the first insects, I decided to stick to the plan and […]

  Typical Dutch winter weather. We get some snow, are allowed to enjoy it for a day, and then are punished hard for the enjoyment with several weeks of dark, windy and rainy weather. You gotta love it. The forecast for the coming fortnight is more gloominess and there literally is no light at the end […]