I took this picture in the Leuvenum forest along the Leuvenum stream. This part of the forest is in the municipality of Ermelo in the Veluwe. Because it was winter the water was a little higher, it is not yet the highest water level what you see in this picture. In this part of the stream there are several places where branches are placed in the stream to get the natural course of the stream back, the stream is allowed to overflow its banks in this forest. On the spot where I took this picture there used to be a watermill for the paper industry. For this photo I put my camera on a tripod and also used a gray filter.
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…