I took this photo on the former island of Schokland in the Northeast Polder, it is the northern part where the harbour of Schokland was. The evening before I took this photo it had snowed, you can still see the remnants of the snow on the ground even though it was already beginning to melt. It was otherwise a beautiful sunny day when I took this photo, although you can still see veil clouds in the sky. The front building was for the fog horn and the back building was the lighthouse keeper's/harbour master's house, in between is a small but simple lighthouse. On the left of the photo, you can see a cycle path that goes all the way around schokland. I used a polarisation filter for this photo so that there would be more contrast in the sky and reduce the light reflection on the wet cycle path. I chose to convert it afterwards to black and white and cropped to 16:9.
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…