Since picking up a camera 2 decades ago, nature pohotography has been my thing. It’s never been much of a consideration: I love being out in nature, I love photography, so that’s that. Sure, I’ve photographed urban areas throughout the years, on vacation, on the odd walk downtown when in the area. But intentionally going out for urban photography at my favorite time of day, at dawn, the way I do in nature every week? Never. Untill now.

As a long time Olympus/OM System enthusiast, I was super excited to have the opportunity to try the new OM System OM-5 camera before its release. Here’s a translation of the Dutch blog I wrote about testing it for CameraNu.

As a long time Olympus/OM System enthusiast, I was super excited to have the opportunity to try the new OM System OM-5 camera before its release. If you’re interested in my experience with it, check out the video I made with CameraNU (in Dutch).

A new blog, finally! I’ve been meaning to make one for a while and I also have a huge draft list of blogs I started but haven’t finished (and likely never will) but with the amount of photography walks I’ve been doing in the past months I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to at least once share a photo blog on such a walk. So let’s just pick the last one, which was an autumn walk around Landgoed Clingendael yesterday morning. Let’s go!

The weather forecast suggested a sunny(-ish) sunrise this friday, while on saturday it’d likely be cloudy and maybe rainy. So although saturday is my regular day for an early morning walk, I decided to switch to friday to be able to enjoy the nicer weather and sunlight. It didn’t turn out quite as I’d expected: the morning was misty and the sun wasn’t able to get through it at all. Nonetheless, it was a pretty , foggy spring morning (and that smell!). Here’s a selection of photos I took.

Just earlier this week, I put a collection of photos of ‘the tree’: a tree that I’ve photographed many times over the years. As it unfortunately turned out this morning there won’t be any new additions to that collection. Or at least not with the tree in all of its magical glory: The tree sadly lost two of its characteristic branches.

After a mild winter without any snow, spring began about 10 days ago. And we noticed; last week was full of sun and we’ve already spent a few nice afternoons working in the garden in our t-shirts. However, then April came and Mother Nature had an icy joke up her sleeve!

I’m no stranger to any of the temptations of social media in general and Instagram specifically. About a year ago, when I was noticing how anxious social media was making me at times, I decided I need to either change how I’d use it, or stop using it all together. Here’s some thoughts on that.

Just last week I got the Canon Selphy CP1300 portable mini printer. A few dozen prints in, I’d figure I’d share some of my thoughts on this little printer.