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.

Pink Skies

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

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..

Road in Gold and Blue

On a Winter Day

Blurred Lines

Autumn Forest in the Mist

Snowy Lane is in my Thoughts

Rime covered trees reflected in the water

Reflections

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

Water and Tree Reflections

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

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

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

Blurred Lines II

Blue Magic – Sea Sparkles

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Morning Magic
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)

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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

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

Standing out or blending in…?

Fine-art Forest

A beech lane in autumn colors.

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

Happy Tree – Foggy Dunescape

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

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

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;