I took this photo in the Leuvenum forest near Ermelo in the Veluwe. Cows used to graze in this meadow in the summer months, nowadays it is part of nature. As the Leuvenum stream runs alongside this meadow, it stands water in winter and spring. This photo is an HDR consisting of 3 photos, as I was standing in the shade of the trees and the meadow mostly in the sun. I also used a polarisation filter to get some more contrast in the sky, if you look closely you can see a few small clouds in the sky. When I took the photos for this HDR, it was a summer morning.
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…