It was one of those days when you knew in advance that you would get wet at least three times if you went out to take photos. A steady series of rain showers drifted across the low Dutch polder landscape from the southwest. You could see rain screens approaching from afar and the sky was filled with white, grey, dark grey stacked clouds and skies that were often brightly contrasted by the sun against the blue behind. Fair in the sky. Below it, the flat Dutch polder landscape. The grass of the meadows lit bright green by the sun. In the middle, the old farmhouse that over the centuries has found its protection from the elements behind the trees and bushes that break the violence of wind and rain. The polder reduced to its basic elements. Air, land, water.
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…