Sometimes it can be seen that nothing has changed since the days of the great Dutch landscape painters. That Ruijsdael's dramatic Dutch cloudscapes still exist. Like here on a February day of violent weather. A day when sun, rain and wind keep alternating. One of those days when, above the low horizon, you see clouds storming in with a curtain of rain below. That alternated with intense sunshine and a bright blue sky with white clouds floating above. A day in which the polder ditches and canals ripple in the wind and alternately glow lead-grey, steel and bright blue in the reflection of the sky. A winter day when around the farms, the trees with their bare branches are sharply outlined but no longer offer any protection for the low-lying barns that stand like islands among the sodden fields. An interplay of just a few colours in an ever-changing dramatic interplay accented by the reddish-brown of the reeds.
My great loves are the water and everything about it. Ships, travel, history and photography. The combination is therefore very common in my photographic work. Most photographs are created intuitively. It is an image that strikes me, usually a combination of form and color in which a.. Read more…