Painted by Light

13 aug 2012

Morning Glory

First of all thank you so much for all nice comments on my last posted blog. Right after it we went on Holiday to Panama so I saw the comments just a week ago. A nice comming home. Thank you all.

So I just returned from Panama a week ago. It is an amazing country with great nature, beautifull and colourfull birds, butterflies you only can dream off but terrible to take a picture of because the never sit still and you cannot come close. And beautiful flowers although tropical ones are not my favorite to take pictures of, I prefer wild flowers. So my macrolens stayed almost the whole time in my bag. We made lots of trips in the rain forest and saw beautiful birds but hard to capture because of the darkness. But we saw the quetzal, the most beautiful bird from Panama. Not great pictures but in my mind I have....
But the pictures will have to wait because I have to sort the out.

However last week I got up early because I wanted to shoot butterflies in the early morning on the heathland. I saw no butterfly but was surprised by the dragon and damselflies and played with them all morning. Amazing I have seen many foto's from dragonflies covered with dew but in real live it is even more beautiful... It was a great morning.

I hope you have enjoy the blog. Have a nice week.

17 jul 2012

About poppies and Crickets

Rain... rain down on me. I love the song from Kane but the rain..... Hmm not that much. At the moment our garden is really a mess. The plants are too heavy of all the water they have to carry. Everything is more than 30 cm longer than it should be. And then the wind. It's not a very easy macro season unfortunately.

I think everybody has those weeks, months that you take pictures and no time to upload or make a new blog. For me it is almost a month ago, so it is really time for a new blog. In between the rainy days I went to nice places to see if there were poppies. I dreamed of a big field of poppies but however not this year. I am glad to see them more and more in holland along the roads. First there is the white and yellow and then you see red and purple. Beautiful. I have been shooting the poppies on different places. So I put every thing together.

I also love my green little friend 'Jaapie cricket'. They are very fast and clever. It is fun and difficult to get them in a right spot to make a nice clear picture without all the grass in front of him.

Red is not an easy colour to capture. As I see the pictures here after the upload there is not so much contrast as in the original. That's often a problem with red.When taking a picture I underexpose it often to get more contrast in the red.

I hope you enjoyed the blog and that the weather will be more sunny. I hope it will be finally summer soon :)

6 jun 2012

Photographer of the month at Nederpix

Every month on Nederpix a photographer of the month is chosen. This photographer will be chosen by the photographer of the month before. I am not very long on the forum yet so I was very surprised to be chosen. Loulou Beavers has chosen me to tell my story this month.... I am very honered and it was great to do. You can also read the article on Nederpix . Sorry the story is not in English.

29 mei 2012

The Blue Ballet

It's been a while sinds I have posted a blog. Too busy working and hardly any time for photography or to post a blog. So here is a small one. These photo's were taken in a private area on an open space in the woods. While laying flat on my belly with my zoom lens 70-200 I shot these photo's. I tried different apertures. With a higher aperture I had more sharpness on all of the damselflies but also in the background. So I tried also whith a very small apurture. You can see the difference very well I think. Which one do you prefer? They don't have all great quality but I just wanted to share this blue ballet with you. There were so many it was amazing to see.