I took this photo of a small brown bird in the reeds in the Harderbroek nature reserve. Before taking the photo, I had to look for the bird in the reeds, but I could clearly hear it singing. The bird is quite small and there was a lot of reed, the colour of the bird does not help to find it. I used my Nikon D7200 with a Nikon 55-300mm lens for this photo. I took this photo out of hand, given the light and the image stabilisation in the lens, it was easy to do.
Welcome to my shop. My name is Gerard de Zwaan and I was born in 1983 in the Veluwe town of Harderwijk where I grew up and still live. I started photography in 2013. My first camera was a Nikon D3200 which I still own and is now as a.. Read more…