Sometimes things just align up perfectly. In this case, getting home from the hospital at lunchtime, the sun shining and Jen visiting. We both had the same idea – to get up into the hills. Loch Brandy, at Glen Clova, is a perfect destination for a short afternoon walk being just an hour’s drive from…
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It seems that I have a knack for only seeing my family in other countries these days. Dad had to Copenhagen this week for business, so what better reason to then meet up in Berlin? We had a pretty lazy weekend, especially since it was very hot, and spent as much time just catching up,…
As Chris Weston was over with a photography workshop, Arie, Marcel and I took the opportunity to take the day off work for some ape photography. It meant an early start for me – at 6.30 or so I left the house and took the tram to Leidschendam, where Marcel picked me up and drove…
I took the day off work today, and headed up to the Amsterdamse Waterleiding Duinen (AWD) with Marcel in the hope of photographing foxes. The sun was shining, and it was a little chilly – perfect weather for a walk. We set out in the direction of a lake with plenty of nesting cormorants. Thanks…
I was back at the fotoclub today for the first time since February, taking with me a selection of photos from India (that I’d intended to show last month) and a selection from Texel. Most of the meeting was dedicated to the selection of photos for an exhibition which will be held at De Papaver…
Back to the Ackerdijkse Plassen this morning with Arie, this time for a guided walk, inside the part of the reserve which is not normally open to the public. The guide was very informative, and it was interesting to see and hear about the different types of habitat within such a small area. Given the…
This weekend I visited the island of Texel, off the north coast of The Netherlands, with Arie and Jules. I still have quite some work to process all the photos (approx 1300), but here a couple taster shots of a kestrel (torenfalk). We also saw plenty of godwits (grutto), avocets (kluut), sandwich terns (stern), common…
So, I had been planning to take part in this year’s PatentRun, and at one point I’d even had ambitious plans of improving on my time from last year. But it wasn’t to be. Instead, I took along the camera and photographed the event, getting soaking wet in the process.
Nicholas Chorale
friends and familyMy first choral evensong for ages… and it wasn’t really the most impressive. I contributed to the overall effect by tripping over the words in the middle of the second reading, and forgetting that victuals are pronounced ‘vittels’ until a millisecond after I read it. Idiot. Introit: Oculi omnium, Charles Wood Responses: Ebdon Psalm 121,…