My visit to the wolves this morning was the primary reason for this trip, and I’ve been looking forward to it for a couple of months now. The centre has 6 wolves, all of which were bred in captivity, and are part of a wolf education program. Each day, one or two wolves are taken…
Category: photography
The verdict is back from the repair centre about the state of my 40D. Not good news – the card reader is broken and they don’t consider that this comes under the guarantee. Having raised the issue with Canon, I’m now waiting to hear if they have changed their mind…. my guess is though, that…
As of this evening, I became an official member of the VNF West Fotoclub. Today’s meeting was given over to a presentation by Han Bouwmeester, a Dutch wildlife photographer, who specializes in bird photography. The first half of the presentation showed a selection of bird photographs taken in The Netherlands, many relating to specific project…
I couldn’t help but feel like I was playing truant from school when I left work today at 1pm with four photo-fanatic colleagues, in order to visit Vlinders aan de Vliet, a butterfly house in nearby Leidschendam. Walking into the butterfly house feels like stepping into the rainforest – surrounded by warm, humid air and…
Some more catch up work – a selection of photos from the second photo workshop I did last year, Puffins on Skomer Island, are now also uploaded to the Puffin Gallery. Looking back, they are for the most part rather disappointing – contrasty light combined with small, fast black and white birds is definitely a…
The last couple trips I’ve taken up to Haarlem/Amsterdam have been brightened by the increasing number of bulb fields that are springing to life. Therefore it seemed appropriate to also upload the set of photos I took at the Keukenhof two years ago to a gallery on Heron Photography.
A bit of a departure today from my usual photographic subjects – not wildlife, but a couple of colleagues on the tennis courts. It was the first time I tried out my new 70-200 mm f2.8 IS lens (just upgraded from the f4 non-IS), and whilst the results show that I could use some more…
Last year I visited Bass Rock, for a photography workshop focusing on gannets (see Gutted about Gannets and Got my Gannets Back). With all the stress of corrupted disk and photo recovery, I never had time to process the photos at the time. Whilst I still need to get my site set up, here is…
After a week of interrupted nights, early starts and a lot of traveling back and forwards to Noord Holland, I was more than ready for a lie-in this morning. Instead, I left the house at 5.15 to join a couple of my colleagues for a visit to the Oostvaardersplassen, a nature reserve in Flevoland province…
I’ve fancied joining a local photo club for many years now (before I came to The Netherlands in fact), but somehow I’ve never managed to get round to doing it. A couple weeks ago I started considering idea again in earnest, and found that the national organization of nature photography has a group which meets…