I took this photo of 3 flowers of a rhododendron in the centre of Harderwijk, this shrub was in a city park. Due to the warmer temperature, this rhododendron bloomed in also autumn even though it was not exuberant. Remarkably, this rhododendron has white flowers, normally they are red/purple. If you look closely, you can also see the stamens in the flowers. To take this picture I put my 55-300mm lens on my camera because these flowers were halfway up the bushes, it does give a blurred background. As I didn't have a tripod with me, I took this photo out of hand.
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…