The light splashes and skitters across the meadows
It chases between trees and bushes
as if it is busy chasing away all the shadows that
To do with sadness and desolation
It splashes and roars among the grazing cattle
and their young
Let it gurgle, let it hoot, it's spring....
The basin of the Geul at its entry into the Netherlands from Belgium is called the Upper Geul.
In the outskirts of the well-known South Limburg village of Epen, it crosses the Belgian-Dutch border and the Geul valley unfolds, a beautiful nature reserve rich in vegetation including rare plants such as the zinc violet, the zinc cress, the zinc bladder lilac and many other zinc-loving species. The soil of the Geul valley is actually heavily polluted because of the former zinc mines that discharged their wastewater and zinc-containing sludge a few kilometers away in the Geul. This is the reason why there is still a lot of zinc-loving flora in the Geul basin, although this vegetation is diminishing as the presence of zinc in the soil is disappearing over the years. A well-known and regular visitor to this area was Jacques P. Thijssen and his friend Eli Heimans.
Be that as it may, every spring this area is for me part of the arrival of spring and the meadows along the Geul are full of the yellow buttercups that give you that really intense spring feeling.
Enige jaren geleden ben ik begonnen met het fotograferen van landschappen en heb hierna een "eigen stijl" weten te creëren. Deze stijl betreft een knipoog naar het pictorialisme, een stroming in de vroegere jaren van de fotografie. In de kunstwereld werd de fotografie als iets minachtends beschouwd omdat.. Read more…