Brick-a-Brack

Assorted brick-a-brack. Sometimes beauty is in the details. Brick walls, cobble stones, a mill stone, sand dune ripples, chopped wood or a sudden butterfly.

Tulips, Tulips, Tulips

Home for Easter

We went back to the Netherlands for Easter. Tulips galore! We were surrounded by more and more bulb fields, the further north we went. It seems most of the fields are now located near Den Helder. The weather was lovely and the fields ever so colorful. This is what spring should look like! What more could you ask for? My hometown is located amidst tulip fields. When I still lived there, working at the bulb farms was just a way to earn money during the summer holidays. We did not appreciate the sheer beauty of the fields. But when I go back now I do! This time it's a 3x3 +1; just because I could not choose :-)

Carnevale di Venezia 2011

We had been wanting to go to the carnival in Venice for years. This year we did and we were not disappointed; it was wonderful. There were people wearing amazing costumes and masks everywhere. And we were so lucky with the weather; sunny and blue skies. What more does a photographer want? I also liked that everyone posed as patiently for photographers with simple cameras as for more professional looking photographers. What a fun time! Didn't even notice the crowds much.

CARS

We went to a classic car show in Oostrozebeke last summer. Beautiful old cars; Rolls Royces, Mustangs, Porsches, GMs, Cobra's, Triumphs, Corvettes, they were all there. All shiny and glistening. Polished like mirrors and thus oh so hard to take pictures that do not include the photographer :-) Just look at all those details. Amazing! Nope, they don't make them like that anymore..

Another Harbor

This time it's the harbor of Antwerp. So I like harbors.. apparently. I like the whole idea of harbors; I like ships; container ships, ferries or sailing boats, going places or coming back. I like oceans and seas; beaches and dikes and harbors. I like the colors and the smells. Maybe I just inherited the 'love of water' from my dad, maybe I got it when I grew up with the smell of the sea everywhere.

S.N.O.W.

Snow came early this year, and lots of it too. Apart from causing a mess on the roads it also transformed the landscape into a white fairytale-like world. This is what the Flemish Ardennes looks like in winter. Ain't it great! It would have been even nicer, if it had not been so freaking cold. But I guess warmth and snow don't go too well together :-)

My Hometown

I was born and raised in Den Helder in the very north of Holland. Most people only pass it on their way to the island Texel. And thus most people never get to see its beautiful beach, nor the fisher's harbour, where these pics were taken. Nice huh? And you know what... Den Helder is the sunniest place in the Netherlands. It enjoys the most sunshine hours each year and the sky is often this blue :-)