Category: Nature

Lightning over Wassenaar

Lightning over Wassenaar, The Netherlands

The lightning bolt flashed through the air to the ground in Wassenaar.[/caption] During a storm in The Netherlands, this lightning bolt went down from the sky to the ground in Wassenaar. I managed to capture it from the safe location of my appartment in The Hague. This picture was shot at night during a storm…
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Extraordinary sunset

Extraordinary sunset!

This picture was shot during a holiday on Crete, Greece. We were having the time of our life with our small hire car, and wanted to go everywhere on the great island. That day we went to the east coast of the island where we had found this perfect spot to relax (see this blogpost).…
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Small umbrella like mushroom

A small mushroom umbrella

This picture was shot during a morning photo session in the backyard. That morning, one of the chores was to do the mowing of the grass. Before starting with that chore, I inspected the grass and saw this tiny little fungus growing up from between the grass roots. It looked like a small umbrella, however…
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Thunderclouds and lightning in the sky

Thunder and lightning

This picture was shot [again] from my appartment in The Hague. In the middle of the night at 04:30 when a lightning show passed my window in 2014. That night was crazy with thunder and lightning! I already made this shot from an earlier blogpost in that same night (at 01:00) So I still had…
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Rainbow starting in meadow

Rainbow starts somewhere

This picture was shot from my appartment. My appartment provides a clear view of the meadows of the “Veenzijdse Polder” near The Hague. The previous photo of the plants covered in dew, the photo of the curious cow, the photo of the sunrays from before and this photograph of that beautiful sunrise were all shot…
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Sunset with dense clouds and a rainbow

Rainbow gives color to massive cloudy sunset

This picture was shot from my house on a September evening in 2015. The apartment that I have has an unobstructed view for several miles and this gives great opportunities to shoot for sunrises, sunsets and all kinds of weather phenomena happening just on my doorstep. That night, some very dense cloud formations were formed…
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Lightning storm capture

Easy flashing Photography

This picture was not hard to make. Not at all! The only thing was… it was at one o’clock at an October night in 2014. I was vast asleep at that time when suddenly I was awaken due to a severe thunderstorm. With no time to think, I grabbed my gear and set up to…
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Dew on a spiderweb

Shiny spiderweb

A shiney spiderweb in the morning dew! This picture was shot with the 60 mm prime macro lens of my girlfriend. She is also into photography but focuses mainly on the macro side of photography. Check her Instagram feed here! A couple of years ago she bought this great macro lens and whenever there are…
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Photo shows sand formations on the beach

Sand border

A sandy border of roughness and smoothness. This picture was shot during a family meet-up in Bloemendaal, The Netherlands in November 2013. My girlfriend and me like to do early morning walks in nature. We sometimes ask our family to join to have a kind of an informal get-together. This time we drove to the…
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