Dog's first bike ride

In Lapland I came across this funny family. Their dog, a husky, got it's first ride on a bike. They told that it went good. Just when they stop and there are other people around, the dog wants to go and say hello to them. So a very social guy you can say.

Low water level

This doesn't look like Finland at all... The picture was taken in Lapland during May. The water level
in the lakes and rivers was extremely low, normally there should be much water after the melting of the snow. This year the snow just evaporated into the air. The low water level gave interesting shaped island in different colours.

Lady in Red

Mysterious Lady in Red. She is standing in the art place "Silent people" at Soumussalmi. There are about thousand figures standing. In the summer they have summer clothes and in the winter they get a jacket and scarf.

Evening light on a lake

The low light made the water of the lake look like alumonium foil. Almost like a painting...

Arty picture

This is some experiment where I changed a picture into a bit more arty style. Let me know if you like this or not.

What a tree

In Finland you can find some very strange shaped trees, like this one. That thing what is growing around the tree is really huge.

Island in the clouds

During a sunset two weeks ago, I was on top of a hill and looking down towards the lake. The wind was stopping and suddenly this island was looking very strange...like it was surrounded by clouds... It reminded almost like a spaceship. What a great view !

Angry trees?

These pollard willows looks almost angry. In the Dutch country site you see those trees a lot. They are cutting the branches every few years away. In the old days they were using those branches for baskets. Due to this cutting, the trees are getting a certain shape when they grow older. I think they get over the years angry and pissed off of all that cutting.

Tree of life?

This weeping willow, next to the river "Maas" was just starting to get leaves. The colours were very pastel-like and gave a warm touch to this scenery. The atmosphere was so peaceful and pure...

Beautiful ugliness

This sluice house was so ugly that I had to photograph it. The concrete has been white decades ago, but was now grey-greenish and looked rather dirty. It's giving this picture feeling. Because the sky wat grey, nearly white, and I left other details out of the picture; the result is a bit abstract. Sure that not everyone will like this, but that's also not the idea of this shot.

Models & Jewelry

During the photography training I did one day sesion with models and studio lights. The idea was to make some good pictures of jewelries which were worn by models. The beautiful jewelries were designed and made by Pearlfox. Pearlfox would use those pictures for promoting her work and for a website. 

To work with studio lights and real models was not easy. To find the right lightning technics was a challange, but also very interesting.

Old & New

An old windmill from the year 1600 surrounded by modern industry. This pictures shows a big contrast what has happend in a short period of time. First the old mill which needs only clean air to work. The mill is not giving polution or other waste to the nature. It's just using the wind, doing it's work and not giving any polution.
Then the modern monster next to him: it's consuming enormous amounts of  energy, doing it's work and giving
a lot of polution to the surroundings. And next to that it's also a damn ugly building.

The small fishing village "Marken"

"Marken" is a nice village with green wooden houses, completely different then the rest of Holland
which has basically only houses made of bricks. Marken used to be an island, but nowadays it's connected
 to the mainland by a causeway. In 1916 a big part of Marken was destroyed by a heavy storm.

Cheese farm

 

This was just a nice evening in the beginning of  March. The sun had gone down already and the blue moment was starting. The wind stopped and the water became a mirror. Sometimes this just happend when you are there, waiting for the right moment to shoot a picture. 

Tulip fields

Holland is famous for it's tulips. In April we had just great weather, so the tulips were on it's best already in mid April. The area of the "Nooroost polder" has enourmes tulips fields in different kind of colours. Just awesome!