Carnival with Lights Carnival? Me? I didn’t think so! I lived in Didam at the time and carnival was quite a thing there anyway, but other than watching the annual parade I really didn’t and don’t do anything with it. Two weeks ago, Roy and Jeanet came up with the idea of joining them to…
Ice diving at Vinkeveen In February 2021, we finally had the opportunity to go ice diving. After several days of good frost, there was finally a good layer of ice and it was touch and go. At Scuba Academy in Vinkeveen, the harbor had frozen over nicely and they were able to carve a paak…
Ice sculptures from the Netherlands to Indonesia Last Saturday we went outside our comfort zone once again and drove to Zwolle with friends. There is an ice sculpture festival there every year and this year we went to check it out. Very briefly, how cool! 260,000 pounds of ice and snow processed into the most…
Diving Goggles at Strength When you come of age, the eyes sometimes want to deteriorate. The first thing that started with me was farsightedness. Oftentimes, up close I can’t see a nut. It started with the fine print and the dive computer, suddenly unreadable. After that it got a little worse but fortunately it only…
Top 10 Like any photographer, you have your own preference for what your best photos are. That is quite. difficult because as for example in 2022 with the vacation in Bali I did take a 6,000 photos in that year. Then try to come up with your own top 10. Now, of course, it’s true…
Seahorses in the Netherlands When I started diving, I wanted to see a seahorse underwater. That was quite a challenge because they were not very common in the Netherlands. Once I dived with friends at the Zeeland Bridge and then they showed me a seahorse, or at least I didn’t see the beautiful creature because…
Netherlands Aircraft One of my old hobbies was aircraft spotting. Both civil and military aviation had my interest. As a little boy, I went to Schiphol Airport with my parents. Then we stood next to the runway and watched the big and smaller planes take off. At the French fry shop present then grab a…
Ouwehands Zoo LightNights Lightnights Aqualuna 2022 Every year Ouwehands Animal Park has a beautiful presentation of nature. Statues made of metal with covering that are then illuminated and make a beautiful presentation of life in nature. Since 2022 it has been an annual tradition for us to go there with Rob and Conny. Already 4…
Thunderstorms in the Netherlands Surely one of the most beautiful natural phenomena we can observe here in the Netherlands is the electrical storm, thunderstorms that is! Since in got the Olympus OMD-E1 mark2 I can fairly simply take the most beautiful thunderstorm photos. In fact, the Live-Composite function takes continuous photos and then only…
New Life underwater As also above water, spring is a time of the beginning of life. Last year I did a 4-week consecutive dive in Vinkeveen, at Zandeiland 4. In the twigs and even just loose on the ground, I went after the offspring of bass. Almost literally from day 1 through day 21, I…
