SCENERY

Scenery

To be very honest, I’m not much of a scenery photographer.
As soon as I see a glimpse of an animal, I know, I feel immediately what I want and how I want it.
Seeing alandscape…I start to wonder:
Should I choose a frog or bird’s-eye view?
Do I pick a tele lens or a wide-angle?
Do I use a wide aperture or better not?
Should I change place or just wait for better light?
All that thinking is not conducive to good photos.

Always take the weather with you

I do like capturing weather though.
Give me some misty polders, heavy snow showers, earth-shaking thunderstorm, sight blinding rain fall,a slightly foggy sunrise,a beautifully clouded sundown, water-scape reflections, a perfect rainbow or that typically hazy autumn mood and my thinking is quickly replaced by enthusiastic clicking.
So, I just always take the watcher with me.

Reflections on a cold winter day, when the world was covered in hoar frost

Seconds Before The Light Went Out
Beeches with coloured leaves on a misty autumn day

Dutch Mountains
A small herd of grazing cows (bos taurus) on a misty morning in a typical Dutch landscape.

We used to have quite long winter times. Weeks, or even months when we went ice skating every day after school and when the snow lasted so long, you could easily get used to it. The past years, winter comes and go within a blink of the eye. Quite a challenge for a photographer to seize her;

Dreamscape
Great Crested Grebe at Sunrise

I found my white Christmas tree, somewhere in a dark, cold, wintry forest…

Happy Tree – Foggy Dunescape

Morning Magic
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)

Snow scene on a magical wintery morning

The Rorschach Test
Trees reflected in calm water at sunrise

Being outside and watching the sun go up on a beautiful early morning…

Road to Nowhere
Trees covered with hoar frost on a very cold winter day

Serenity
Mute Swan at sunrise

Golden lane – autumn trees

Autumn Magic
Beech forest at sunset

The Black Sheep
A herd of grazing sheep (Ovis aries) on a foggy morning in a typical Dutch landscape on a foggy morning at sunrise

Blue Magic – Sea Sparkles

Swans in the Mist
Mute Swans on a misty morning

These countless huge pines can make you feel so…small… As if these old wise trees are bending over, to see what this tiny creature is doing there, lying in the snow..

These modern winters might be extremely short,still love them to bits anyway

Light at the End of the Tunnel
Sunrise creating light beams in an early morning beech forest

Reflections

The Basilisk
A Common Pheasant ( (Phasianus colchicus) @ early morning

Awakenings
The world waking up

The Polder at Sunrise
A typical Dutch polder scene

Fine-art Forest

Relections
Lonely biker at a misty winter morning, reflected in the smooth surface of the water

The Magic Tree
Misty morning at sunrise

Lost in the Light
Sunrise creating light beams in an early morning beech forest

Blue Drift
Drift Ice during the blue hour

Autumn Moods
Beech forest in an autumn afternoon