I took this photo of a pheasant in the polder Arkemheen near Nijkerk. The pheasant that you see is a female that was walking on the dike of polder Arkemheen. In the foreground you can see the grass that is also in the polder Arkemheen itself and in the background you can still see one of the few bushes of the polder. There are several pheasants and other meadow birds in the Arkemheen polder. To take this photo I used a 55-300 mm telephoto lens, otherwise I chose to leave this photo in its original proportion.
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…