Very close to home I witnessed and photographed today's blue hour at the Reitdiep Haven. This is a very recent part of the city of Groningen, situated in the North-West. It's well-known because of the bright-coloured houses.
Today will be remembered as a Siberian *spring* day in the Netherlands. With temperatures well below zero and a major wind chill factor made it feel like -15 degrees Celcius.So, this is what they call global warming… Once I arrived at this location at Ezumakeeg, I needed some time to make up my mind: give it a go or go straight back home, nice and warm. I choose option one and was treated with an, I think well deserved, spectacular sunrise over the frozen water.During the shoot, where I was standing on a small hill catching the > 50 km/h wind straight in my face, I left the spot a couple of times to be able to go out of the wind. This was the only way to keep going without my face and fingers getting frozen…So, a very cold sunrise today, but I;m pleased with the results...
Conditions were great today so I simply had to go out for some landscape photography.The rocks separate this stream from the Leekstermeer lake, which is on the left.I actually had to stand in the (luckily undeep) water to be able to shoot this one. On the horizon one can see some silhouettes from the city of Groningen.
This morning I planned to go for an autumn shoot in the woods near Gasselte. Two weeks ago, I visited the same location with my father. We found some nice potential photographs back then, but the autumn colours were missing.Today there was colour. And a lot of it. While hoping for some nice early morning sunshine, it turned out to be and stay a misty morning which posed some great opportunities as well.While exploring the area and making some photos, I suddenly saw a dark silhouette in the mist. Using my tele lens I could see no more than a person with a tripod, so it had to be another photographer. It turned out to be Bas Meelker, the professional Dutch landscape photographer who basically learned me all about landscape photography. We spend some time together photographing the great trees, colours and mist.