I took this photo on the Hulshorsterzand near the village of Hulshorst in the municipality of Nunspeet on the Veluwe. For this photo I have highlighted the trunk of the pine tree with 2 Nikon SB-700 strobes, I used the strobes because otherwise the trunk would be dark. The reportage strobes I hid behind a tree and a branch so they were not in the picture, the control of the strobes was through a trigger set. I liked the shape of the trunk and there was also a gap between the branches which made taking this picture easier. I still had to find the right composition to make this photo beautiful. I have cropped this photo so that a piece of the foreground falls away. This pine stands on a dune, probably the sand of the dune is held by the roots of the pine.
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…