The Falling Stars The effects of the comet Swift-Tuttle a beautiful spectacle Every year on Aug. 13 you have a meteor swarm. This is because of the remnants of the tail of comet Swift-Tuttle. This comet passes the orbit of every 133 years. the earth. When a comet, a large rock/ice/metal lump floating through space,…
Amersfoort Zoo Fun, especially for children! Sunday morning we were out early to the DierenPark Amersfoort. Picked this park because I had never been there before and some other people might go with me. But they blew it off, they wanted to sleep in 😉 At 9 o’clock it goes. park open and we were…
The foxes of the Amsterdam Water Supply Dunes And so it was weekend again and together with Mieke and Waldemar we went into the Waterleidingduinen again. We met at an unchristian time, at 6 a.m. at the Panneland entrance. That’s a different place from where we normally go in but then on our return…
Amsterdam Water Supply Dunes What a beautiful area! Third time’s the charm and so it was! We headed out the door at 6 this morning to the Amsterdam Waterworks Dunes. A huge nature reserve filled with deer, fallow deer, foxes and many more birds and insects. Out and about with Olympus’ new 100-400 lens. A…
Amsterdam Water Supply Dunes lost your way! Last Saturday, we went for a change from diving! Hiking in the Amsterdam Water Supply Dunes. We had received a tip about a place where young foxes would be. So off in good spirits. From a good friend to borrow her 100-400mm Olympus lens. So even though they…
Walk at Gent I had to be in Gent this week for an education fair. In 2019 I was here the first time and already then had the idea to go back once but with the camera. So now it was that time again and the OMD with the 12mm lens along. A good hotel…
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 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…
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…
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…
