Posts Tagged ‘Nature’

The Nieuwkoopse Plassen

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Two days ago my mom, my oldest brother and I went to the Nieuwkoopse Plassen for a boat trip.
We hired a small silent motorboat with which we could enter the area.
My brother and I both had our camera with us so we shot quite some photos together, mostly for practice and some for sheer fun.

I quickly came to realize that it’s not that easy to take photos from a moving boat. Whenever I saw something interesting to try and make a photo of I had to be really quick to get it right.
The boat going up and down was also something which turned out to be quite annoying. Sometimes the subject was a lot more to the bottom of the photo then I wanted and sometimes it was just blurry because of sudden movement.

It was a very nice afternoon though and since we spent about 4 hours in that boat I also had plenty of time to just relax and lie around (like a pirate who doesn’t do anything).
Some of the photos I made turned out quite well, so I would like to show a few of these to you.

 – Nieuwkoopse plassen – Nieuwkoopse plassen
– Nieuwkoopse plassen
 – Nieuwkoopse plassen – Nieuwkoopse plassen
– Nieuwkoopse plassen
 – Grebe – Grebe
– Grebe
 – Nieuwkoopse plassen – Nieuwkoopse plassen
– Nieuwkoopse plassen
 – Canoe – Canoe
– Canoe
 – Water lilly – Water lilly
– Water lilly

Practice in the Ridderkerkse Gorzen

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Yesterday evening I went out with a friend to practice some nature photography in the evening.
It was really fun to do, we chose to go to a nice spot close to where I live.
The spot did turn out to be very nice, though it was a bit more jungle-like then we expected as it turned out to be less cared for as we thought.
Nevertheless we went hiking through our very own dutch jungle using our tripods as a machete and I have to say it was very much worth it.

The evening light was very tricky to work with, we both had quite some photos which turned out to be slightly blurred when we viewed them on our computers.
Luckily enough there are also enough photos which I really like, and I will share a few of those with you.

 – Freight ship – Freight ship
– Freight ship
 – Freight ship – Freight ship
– Freight ship
 – Bumblebee – Bumblebee
– Bumblebee
 – Bumblebee – Bumblebee
– Bumblebee
 – Romantic bugs – Romantic bugs
– Romantic bugs
 – Ridderkerkse Gorzen – Ridderkerkse Gorzen
– Ridderkerkse Gorzen
 – Ridderkerkse Gorzen – Ridderkerkse Gorzen
– Ridderkerkse Gorzen
 – Ridderkerkse Gorzen – Ridderkerkse Gorzen
– Ridderkerkse Gorzen
 – Ridderkerkse Gorzen - Bridge – Ridderkerkse Gorzen – Bridge
– Ridderkerkse Gorzen – Bridge
 – Fly surrounded by bugs – Fly surrounded by bugs
– Fly surrounded by bugs
 – Ridderkerkse Gorzen – Ridderkerkse Gorzen
– Ridderkerkse Gorzen
 – Evening sky – Evening sky
– Evening sky
 – Evening sky reflected in the water – Evening sky reflected in the water
– Evening sky reflected in the water

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