“All wood is not yet lumber”, is a Dutch saying ( I hope I translated it well). Anyway this is wood. One of the decayed trees of the National Park I yesterday mentioned. During a hot summer you get hard shadows and lots of whites.
ENJOY!
Canon EOS 20D – 24/70 mm – F 2,8L USM – 45mm – ISO 100 – F 4 – 1/1000sec – Apr 2007
It is late autumn. Suddenly I saw something of light between the shadows during my walk through the young forest. At this time of the year everybody longs for light. I saw a couple of ferns ready for wintertime. They were lit by the late sunlight telling me how pretty autumn can be.
ENJOY!
Canon EOS 20D – 24/70 mm – F 2,8L USM – 50 mm – ISO 100 – F 2,8 – 1/350sec – Nov 2006
It’s about 19.00 hrs at Domburg. Together with a group of photographers we stay at Domburg during the weekend. Making photographs at the beach. It’s raining during the main part of the day. Suddenly the sun calls. A wake-up call for the most of us. Only one photographer is aware of what’s happening. He grabs his equipment and runs outside. It’s Gerry. The nature lover. Thanks to him I made this impression to be seen and for sale at ‘Werk aan de Muur’.
ENJOY!
Canon EOS 20D – 24/70 mm – F 2,8L USM – 45 mm – ISO 100 – F 8 – 1/60sec – Oct 2006
‘Sometimes I feel so sad, so bad’, Mercury sung. Today I feel pretty good, however this image shows contrary. I made it some days after yesterdays image and still can feel the sorrow it expresses.
Life and dead and a couple of days in between. Things go fast in real life. Anyway it’s time to enjoy every minute.
I did it during composing and this time during writing about it. I love the image and the transience carrying it inside.
ENJOY!
Canon EOS 20D – 24/70 mm – F 2,8L USM – 24 mm – ISO 100 – F 8 – 1/125sec – Sep 2006
How valuable is light?! Of course for photographers but also for all human beings. One of the most impressive images I made is that one I made of the sunflower in my garden.
I like the colors, however they are not complementary. Once I red a story of the great Paul Huf going for the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh.
I just stayed at home….
ENJOY!
Canon EOS 20D – 24/70 mm – F 2,8L USM – 24 mm – ISO 100 – F 5,6 – 1/180sec – Sep 2006
It’s past ten in the evening. I witnessed the sunset at the beach of Noordwijk at the North Sea. Two friends, sitting side by side, are watching and enjoying the rimpling of the water during a long time. The are talking and waiting for sunset. It’s June and the water warmed up by the sun during the past weeks. I’m waiting and waiting for the sunset and for ‘the decisive moment’ they look to each other.
It happened at 22.03.29 hr in 2006 at June 30th exactly. Thanks to Lightroom I still can recover the exact moment of capturing. It took more than half an hour before the sun disappeared and the friends went home.
Sunset – one of the miracles of love and life.
ENJOY!
Canon 20D 24/70 mm – f2,8 – 64 mm – ISO 100 – F 5,6 – 1/60 sec – jun 2006
I like to walk, to wander with my camera. This time I have been near the visitors center of ‘De Biesbosch‘. It’s the land of low tide and flood, maze of creeks. You can sail past willow flood forests, canoeing through or wandering along winding creeks, finding rough paths and open meadows, looking for water birds and beavers.
I like to listen to the rippling of the water around me. Not any day the same as yesterday. I found this repetition of willows waiting for spring to come.
I love the reflections in the water.
ENJOY!
Canon 20D 70/200 mm – f2,8 – 70mm – ISO 400 – F32 – 1/15 sec – mrt 2006
“It’s winterfall”, Freddy Mercury sang. “Am I dreaming…..”. During a visit in Austria I had that same feeling in the early morning. It was cold outside and I made my morning walk before my cup of coffee somewhere in the neighbourhood of Innsbruck. I saw a little church down the hill and started walking through the fresh snow seeing some cabins and the new morning light.
The nature based snow-white and coming fruit of the alder makes a real contrast with the human shaped forms of the little town. I loved the foggy colors and my coffee tasted wonderful…..
ENJOY!
Canon 20D 70/200 mm – f2,8 – 200mm – ISO 100 – F11 – 1/250 sec – feb 2006
WACHTERS IN DE WIND heb ik ze genoemd. Ergens langs het strand in Noord-Holland kwam ik ze tegen. Stilte en beweging samen in één beeld. Een geweldige ervaring vond ik het. En nog steeds.
Zo’n beeld geeft veel stof tot overdenking en dat is wat je ook doet als je langs het strand loopt. Trouwens ook als je van plan bent ‘je hoofd leeg te maken’. Altijd gaat de golfslag met je mee en dat helpt bij alles wat je denkt of juist niet denkt. Water, we komen er vandaan en moeten er steeds weer naar toe.
En daar staan dan de wachters. Ze trotseren de golven, bij eb en bij vloed. Boeiend om naar te kijken. Altijd gaat het water er tussendoor. Alleen de zeepokken zijn er tegen bestand. Die klonteren zich vast aan de palen, wat er ook gebeurd. Wie heeft dat touwtje eigenlijk opgehangen……?
Fototechnisch nog best ingewikkeld. Je moet de zwarten ‘niet dicht laten lopen’ maar ‘doortekend’ laten. Die goeie Ansel Adams met zijn ‘zonesysteem’ moest eens weten……
Een overblijfsel uit mijn Hasselbladperiode… Wat een ‘goeie ouwe tijd’….. En maar pielen met dat rolletje van 12 en maar tobben in die donkere kamer…. Wat een gemak toch die digitale camera’s!
ENJOY!
Canon 20D 24/70 mm – f2,8 – 46mm – ISO 100 – F5,6 – 1/125 sec – feb 2006
As my former teacher, Ine van den Broek (she died at 62 in 2009) , said: “Damned Hans, you need to go close” – I still hear those words at every shot with my camera.
It is a low sun evening at Denmark. I had to think of Van Gogh who painted corn during 1890. The fullness of the barley is overwhelming. Especially its large plumes. It is like new ones and it is glittering from all sides. Some months ago we liked the cold winter and now this is happening. The wonder is still there….
Since 7000 BC coming from Syria and Afghanistan and now growing from Finland to the Himalaya. A golden glow. Thanks to the RGB colors from my digital camera.
Nothing to compare…….
Canon 20D 24/70 mm – f2,8 – 64mm – ISO 200 – F4,0 – 1/180 sec – jul 2005
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