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A small path through the forest. Together with family we stayed in an area called "Holterberg". It's a beautiful area with hills and forests. On a pretty clear day I decided to go for a walk together with two of my nephews. The forest were amazing and fortunately I brought my camera.

After a lot of grey cloud covered days you embrace those beautiful winter days. Which means cold temperatures and a clear blue skies! Those kinds of days remind me of last year's spring. On a cold afternoon I started to hike towards the coast on the island of Terschelling and when I reached the top of the dunes the sky slowly opened up and it resulted in a great view with great light!

It doesn't really matter when you are at the beach, if it's in winter, summer, autumn or spring, the beach is always so photogenic. This is a photo of the beach in winter. The mist, the grey sky, it has something moody, I just love it!

This photo is made in my backyard. Well not my exact backyard but not far away from where we live. A nice green zone full of trees and water wich is perfect for an evening stroll with the camera!

When do you go out to shoot the perfect autumn colors? It's not easy, wait to long and a storm might blow away all the pretty colors. When you're too early the colors might still be to green. Nevertheless just go out, it's always good being in the forest!

This photo was taken during story weather at Chirstmas last year. I visited my dad on the island of Vlieland and we went on a hike. The most spectacular light at the end of the day made for the perfect hike!

This a scan of an old Kodak negative. I went on a roadtrip with my brother through Scotland, it was back in 2004 and I only brought a film camera, an old Canon. The developed photos were still reasonably good but I decided to scan the negatives with an Epson scanner to back them up digitally. Pretty happy with the result!

Last Sunday I was working in our garden and shed, to make some shelves for storage when I noticed the sky turning all pink and orange. The nearly full moon completed the picture so I could not resist grabbing the camera!

While on the island last spring, a little mist came in from the sea. It covered the dunes and beach and made for a nice moody scene!

This photo was taken during a weekend (Easter weekend) on the island of Terschelling. We were there with a bunch of friends. While we were waiting to go to our cabin for the weekend I decided to go for a walk with the camera. I ended up on top of the most beautiful dunes of the island. Such an amazing view!

This is one of my first photos with a DSLR camera. I got the camera as gift from my father. After taking photos on the island I was hooked

Another day that felt like summer! Still a bit too cold to dive into the sea though, but it won't be long!

A misty / hazy mood at the beach but fortunately no rain! A few minutes later the beach would be even darker because of more clouds, except for the dunes, somehow the sun came through just to light up the dunes. All and all a pretty cool moment to be at the beach!

Whenever I'm on the island of Terschelling. At sunset I always go and look at the sun setting above the sea. The beach, dunes and grass turn into gold. Never ever do views like these get boring.

Not all photos have to take a lot of effort. But I must say, a little planning and preparation never hurts. But in this case the moment was just perfect. Sometimes just bringing the camera is enough. I under exposed the photo a little to give it some extra darkness and shadow. Sunsets, they never ever get boring! I also uploaded this image to Instagram but Instagram is not great for uploading photos with a high resolution, in many cases you can thereby miss essential details in a photo. Fortunately that problem does not apply to my website. Enjoy the photo!

Because it ain't exactly spring yet I thought I'd post a photo of a warm summer memory! Can't wait for the sun, bare feet in the sand and long walks across the beach!

Golden hour, from the top of a dune on the island. In frame you see a part of the island that regularly gets flooded by the sea. Especially during bad weather and strong winds in winter. As was the case in the winter of 2013. While hiking with @jurrenawijn we managed to get from the harbor to this part of the island straight through the flooded area. The result were pretty cold and wet feet but the view was totally worth it!

Looking out over the dunes on this part of the island is just amazing. Especially in winter. The colors of the grass the light of the setting sun, they all make for just that little extra magic!

I don't always take the same route when I go home. When you change route every now and then it might be that you will come home a little later but there also new views, new places, new things to discover. I was driving home on some very small roads when I stumbled upon this very small lake / pond. There was still some ice left of the past days when temperatures went below zero. The sun was setting and I couldn't resist enjoying the moment and taking the shot.

Nearly frozen. I took this photo of a small pond near the town of Yde because I thought, it's a small pond so even if there has been only one night of frost it might be frozen over. It wasn't completely frozen but quit a big part of it contained ice. A pretty sight with the light of the setting sun, but not the kind of ice for ice-skating!

We started our walk whit sunshine and a blue sky. But one hour later the game changed pretty quickly. Dark clouds were coming but fortunately never made it to the beach! 🙂

After I posted a lot of dark and moody images on my Instagram page I thought it be time to post something sunny! Photos such as these take me right back to the beach.

One of the most beautiful views while travelling the Swiss Alps. We just arrived at our cabin, the sun was setting and we just found out that this was our view. Pretty spectacular is you ask me!

Last light on the trees. This was shot in the Ardennes Mountains in Belgium. We had spend the afternoon out walking the area of Malmedy. The area was that beautiful that I decided to go out again to catch sunset. The sky wasn't clear, clouds and mist. But every now and then the light came through the clouds.

We visited Neuschwanstein Castle and we're heading for the Austrian border when we crossed this river. We stopped because the light was great and we just had to take a photo! After crossing the river we were in the Austrian Alps and many more beautiful moments would follow!

This photo was taken on the second day of Christmas on the island of Vlieland. The weather was spectacular that day. We, me and my dad, were lucky because we only had this one day to complete a 22 km hike across the island. The view from the top of this dune was spectacular. I will be posting it later!

One of many photos I took in the summer of 2017 on the island of Terschelling. The dunes, the blue skies and the moving grass. So typical for the Dutch islands.

I think I didn't mind that we did not see any snow during Christmas, why? Because I got to spend the second day of Christmas on the island of Vlieland and the weather was just great! The light was great too, so bringing the camera wasn't for nothing!

There's always one just a little different. Nothing wrong with that, most often those are the special ones!

It doesn't have to be that difficult, life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Dune grass never gets boring! Just like walking the beach, good in all seasons.

Today it rained, a lot! It made me think of a while back, three years to be precise. We were on a great trip in Scotland, land of the free, but also land of the rain! My brother, @nickvaniddekinge and I were traveling through the Highlands. Such an amazing trip! The good news is, we will be traveling the Highlands again, next summer! Can't wait!

I stayed with my parents on the island. On the first evening I visited the beach and was treated with this nice sunset! Such a beautiful place to be!

Dark clouds above the island. Last summer the weather wasn't great, but in comparison with today the weather last summer was not that bad at all!

Not a bad summer view. It so nice to walk accross the beaches of Terschelling. White sand dunes, green dune grass and blue skies. I don't need much more in summer.

This photo was shot in early spring on the island of Terschelling. As you can see the sand was blowing across the beach because of some pretty strong winds! I hope you all like this photo because taking it meant shooting low to the ground, which in this case also meant for enormous amounts of sand ending up my camera bag. Because well, I was so stupid to leave it open while taking the shot!

I had to put my camera away for a while because there was just too much rain. But at the moment I decided to leave the beach the sun popped out. Right before sunset I was able to take a couple of shots. This is one of them.

Another shot from a trip to the Ardennes. This hiking path down into a quarry was blocked by fallen trees.

This photo was taking during a short trip to the Ardennes. The weather wasn't that great but the fog and the mountains go really well together.

We parked the car and just started walking up hill. We thought it would be nice to know what was behind the mountain, you guessed it, another mountain! 🙂

Perfect reflections on the lake. You can either wait for no wind at all to get some nice reflections. Or you can take a photo with a really long shutter speed. I prefer the first one because it is way less complicated 😉

Right after the rain stopped and I decided to call it a day the sun came out. Right before sunset. Such an amazing sight!

in the light

in Scotland

at sunset

sunset colors

view

dunes

forest

at sunset

in the forest

Hiking in the Ardennes of Belgium on a misty afternoon. Man, nature is so beautiful over there! The snow was already melting, the sun was setting and it was cold, so freakin cold! But still, never too cold to take some photos!

at the beach

at the beach

Sometimes, all you have to is look at the sky. Especially at sunset somtetimes things in the foreground just get in the way of the image, the feeling you want it to reflect. In this case. That was the case 🙂

in the sun