Snow drop serenity

 Since I have launched my new website it has been quiet for a while. But behind the scenes everything is one the move. I had to develop a newsletter which has been send for the first time now. Very exiting. With this newsletter you will be updated about the new blogpost on my new site in dutch.
In the future my new site will be in English too.

What's new..... please note if you did not sign in for the newsletter yet.... maybe this is the time to do it. I would love it if you join me. And maybe if you sign in now, and you will be one of the first 50 signed up followers you will be the owner of a great hip smart phone cover with a photo on it from my collection. Want to know more ?.... Please follow me here and read all about it at at the end of this post were we are going. But sorry it's all still in dutch. But you can sign in anyway. If you like to have an idea how the newletter looks like take a look here.

After weeks not touching my camera i finally had the time to go on the road in the beginning of februari. I really wanted to shoot the snowdrops. On the road I was surprised by snow. So great. I had no chance to take pictures of snow yet so this was great both of them together. The forest looks like a fairy tail all 'dressed' in white.

The snowdrops were half covert by snow and the small flower buds were not opened yet.On my belly in the snow with my thermo pants and rain cover paints on I was pretty comfortable in the snow. However a snow pants would have been much warmer. But at my place there was not a touch of snow so I didn't bring it.

At first I start with over exposure this way you get nice fresh pictures with soft colours.

And then I underexposed because I love to make different moods.

A fun thing to do is to play with white balance this is another way to get great moods.

The photo's below are taken a week later when the snow was completely gone. It was very early and freezing so the flowers were still closed. But the nice rising sun brought colours in the corners of the shadow and the flower buds were awakening.

Using the backlight is still one of my favorite specially when the sun is just rising. But it was a very tiny sun but that just gave these really soft colours i love.

This is the end of the blog. I hope spring will begin soon. Thank you for visiting my blog.

If you like to see more new you can find it here.... 

My new website is online.

Finally the time has come. After weeks of hard work on my site it is finally online. It has a different name then my old site. www.andreagulickx-photography.nl But the old site www.id-graphickx.nl will remain.

Thanks to everyone who helped me. On my site you can reed more about it. http://www.andreagulickx-photography.nl/category/nieuws/nieuws-media/The difference is that it will be in dutch this time. Hopefully in the future it will be also in English.

This blog will remain in English but on the other site they will be in dutch.

You can sign in for the newsletter if you want to be updated about posts and everything what will be happening in and around Andrea Gulickx Photography. However it will be in dutch on the site but pictures don't need words i believe :) And I am planning to make an english newsletter also.

And not a surprise anymore but if you are interested in one of my workshops you can read all about it on my site now.

So if you are interested please follow me here. 

Have a nice weekend. 

Andrea

It's going to be a splashing new year!

The past year a lot of great things happened. I met wonderful and interesting people for all the photograph reportages I made for the Noaber. I have won some prices which I am very proud of. I had 2 exhibitions which were both great.
The past 2 months I have been very busy with a lot of new things. Working for a fashion brand with designing graphical prints and beside that I was working on my new website which will be on line the beginning of February.

AND NOW a new year is ahead! With new challenges and the greatest thing what is going to happen is that I am starting with MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS. And I cannot wait to start. I really love to share my passion with you.

The workshops will start in the end of may. There will be a few possibilities.

Macro photography for beginners: Playful learning
Macro photography advanced: Flowing creativity
Macro photography 1 op 1: Private creativity

The titels are in English however the workshops will be only in dutch to start with.
If the website will be launched in februari you can read more about it :)

If you are interested please feel free to contact me by mail (id-graphickx@xs4all.nl) I will send you the information.

And a new exhibition has started in the health center of Odijk. Which you can read on the exhibition page.
New articles have been placed in different magazines. You can read that on the media page. So this year started great. And I have a lot of energy left so it's going to be a great year.

In december I went to the bird hideout of Han Bouwmeester. My first time. I don't really have a good birdlens so I could borrow the lens of my boyfriend a 300 mm nikkon and I could borrow a nikkon 400 mm. Thank you both so much. I was so lucky I could try them both this way. Wauw they were both great lenses. And it was so great to do. A great place to be.... Han. Thanks.

Some of my pictures I made there. A different kind of thing. Still a lot to learn but that's the fun!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Dear Blog Friends & Fans,

Thanks for your friendship the past year. Your comments and feedback, I really appreciate it. Specially because I don't have a lot of time to visit all the blogs by every new post, however when I take a look I always watch the older stories with photo's too but unfortunately i don't have the time to respond on every one of them even do I would love to.

I loved seeing your creative and inspiring foto's and reading your stories. I hope 2013 will be an even more inspiring year with, creativity, warmth and joy in what ever you do. Happy holidays. All the best. Andrea

Treasures of the forest floor

I am as always behind with my blogs :) Winter is already here and i haven't post any pictures of the autumn. I haven't been much on the road for that. But I have visited the speulderforest which was already a long time on my lis. I went toe the leersumse veld also one of my favorite places. But not many fungus. In the speulder forest the other hand there were lots of them. The other thing was that I was less interested in them because it was booming on internet with all these pictures of them so I was trying to find other subjects and other challanges.

I seams already such a long time ago. The pictures have been taken in oktober and the beginning of november. I have been experimenting a bit with double exposure and bigger apurture just to try something different.

double exposure of the forest floor

F18

F8 and double exposure

F20  

I loved the atmosphere like the trees were under water but the highlights are too much.

climbing the ivory tower

fungi frog (fun)

playing with lights,leaves and much under exposure

 

I love the darkness on the forest floor

Also the fragile ferns are very interesting subjects in autumn.

double exposure with zoom

frozen leaves on the forest floor

And finaly some fungus.

 

My favorite one.

I hope you enjoyed it. And  I hope snow will be coming soon again to make some winter pictures.