In December 2024, I spent a week travelling through the beautiful Lake District in England. After it had rained and stormed there non-stop for weeks, I was lucky. Not a drop of rain all week, until the day of departure. Then the weather was wet and bleak and uniformly grey.
During that week, I took this photo.
I had been photographing for a few hours on the lake shore. The mist came and went, as did the sun which was sometimes blocked and sometimes not. A beautiful morning. At one point, some geese passed by. And a few more. There were more and more of them. Until a group decided to try at a different spot. I captured that moment of flying away here.
The photo was taken at the van Derwent Water in Keswick.
Ton Drijfhamer is a highly regarded image maker from Delfzijl, Netherlands, who combines his passion for photography with a deep-rooted love for the northern regions of the Netherlands. Ton describes himself as someone who is "alone, but together with the weather, the wind, and my.. Read more…